Once in a Lifetime Art Experience Just a Short Drive Away

09/01/2009
Source: Connections Magazine

This Fall, where will you find some of the world's most famous Impressionist art pieces - New York City? ...maybe Philadelphia? Actually, Syracuse, NY, less than three hours away and the home of Syracuse Stage, Syracuse Symphony, Syracuse Opera, Syracuse University Art Galleries, and many smaller independently owned galleries, will play host to Turner to Cezanne, Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum of Wales, October 9, 2009 through January 3, 2010 at the Everson Museum of Art. The Turner to Cezanne exhibition is making its U.S. debut in only five cities, and Syracuse is the only destination the exhibit will visit in the Northeast. The exhibition is a remarkable group of 19th and early 20th century paintings collected between 1908 and 1923. The exhibition is organized by the American Federation of the Arts and the National Museum Wales. This stunning 53-piece British collection, once owned by Margaret and Gwendoline Davies, sisters and renowned art collectors from Wales, features pieces by artists including Cezanne, Corot, van Gogh, Monet, Daumier, Manet, Millet, Renoir, Turner, and Whistler. Highlights from the Davies Collection that will be featured at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse include:

• Pierre-Auguste Renoir's La Parisienne

• Claude Monet's Water Lilies and The Palazzo Diario

• Vincent van Gogh's Rain-Auvers

• Joseph Mallord William Turner's Morning After the Wreck and The Storm

• Paul Cézanne's The François Zola Dam and Provençal Landscape

• Paul Signac's St. Tropez

The exhibition will be open to the public weekly Tuesday through Sunday. Cell phone tours will be available as a free educational component of the exhibition, and group tours are available at a discounted rate. To find out more information on museum and exhibit, hours and admission rates, go to www.VisitSyracuse.org/syrARTcuse.

 

Make it a Weekend Getaway

During your visit to Syracuse for this world-renowned art exhibition at the Everson, be sure to check out some of the best dining, shopping, pampering, and entertainment the area has to offer. The Syracuse Convention & Visitors Bureau is offering a special "Art, Culture and the Everson" package during the exhibition that includes two-night hotel accommodations, special admission to the Turner to Cezanne exhibit at the Everson Museum of Art, entrance into the Erie Canal Museum and Onondaga Historical Association Museum & Research Center with gift shop coupon, Dinosaur BBQ restaurant gift card, Passport to Savings at Carousel Center, a visit to Lakeland or Pheasant Ridge Winery, a stop at the Paul DeLima Coffee Museum including a free cup of fresh coffee, plus much more.

With the arrival of Turner to Cezanne in Syracuse, many local attractions have joined together to make your "Turner to Cezanne Getaway" a fun-filled, cultural experience:

 

1. Syracuse Stage

Acclaimed comedian Steve Martin will present "Picasso at the Lapin Agile" at the Syracuse Stage from Oct. 14 through Nov. 1, highlighting the laughter, comedy, absurdity, and some of his delightfully zany musings on the nature of art, science, and the twentieth century. From Oct. 9 through Jan. 3, Syracuse Stage will perform "The Woman in the Blue Dress," a multi-media theater piece that brings to life a fledgling actress to share her provocative story of life in the Parisian art and theater worlds of the 1870s and what it was like to model for Renoir, one of the most shocking Impressionist painters of his day.

 

2. Syracuse Opera

The Syracuse Opera will feature "La Bohème" on Oct. 23 and 25, a series of art song recitals based on works of art in the Turner to Cezanne exhibition. The performances will also feature large replicas and posters of the Impressionist art from the exhibition as part of the scenery. "L'heure exquise," a pairing of ten works in the Turner to Cezanne exhibition with art songs by Elgar, Debussy, Ravel, Fauré, and Duparc set to the poetry of Verlaine, Hugo, and Moréas, among others, will be performed by the Syracuse Opera at the Everson, both in the galleries with the actual paintings and in the museum's recital hall where images of the paintings will be projected. The recitals will take place in mid- November, in collaboration with the Everson's exhibition schedule.

 

3. Syracuse Symphony Orchestra

The Syracuse Symphony Orchestra will perform "Beyond the Score(r)," conducted by David Loebel and produced by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Oct. 16 and 17 at the Mulroy Civic Center in Syracuse. On Nov. 6 and 7, the Orchestra, with conductor Daniel Hege, will feature "Impressionist Masters," a series of pieces including Faure's "Requiem," Debussy's "Nocturnes" and Ravel's "Daphins and Chloe Suite No. 2."

For more information, go to www.VisitSyracuse.org/syrARTcuse.

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