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MFAH Gallery Conversations: A Toast to Art and Wine Through Italy

Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building

April 10, 2010

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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents MFAH Gallery Conversations: A Toast to Art and Wine Through Italy, Saturday, April 10, at 2:30pm. Presented by Laura Widing, Director of the Wine Show, at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Meet outside the Prendergast in Italy exhibition (lower level of the Beck Building, across from Café...

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Join Laura Widing, Director of the Wine Show at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, as she leads us on a tour of wines through the exhibition, Prendergast in Italy. This exhibition features paintings by American artist Maurice Prendergast, who traveled and painted the various regions of Italy—Venice, Rome, Siena and Capri, in particular. In the spirit of Prendergast´s paintings, Ms. Widing will discuss Italian wines by region. A tasting will follow.

Gallery Conversations are open to the public and free with general museum admission. Museum members always receive free admission. Campstools and audio guide headsets will also be provided.

Image: Maurice Prendergast, American, 1858-1924, detail Rialto, Venice, c. 1911-12, watercolor and pencil on paper, Williams College Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Charles Prendergast, 86.18.79.

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Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building

5601 Main Street
Houston, TX 77005

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Tickets:

Admission is open to the public and free with general museum admission. Museum members always receive free admission.

Museum Admission:
$7.00 adults
$3.50 seniors/children 5-18

RSVPs requested. Email: lectures@mfah.org.

Times:

2:30pm

NOTE: Meet outside the Prendergast in Italy exhibition (lower level of the Beck Building, across from Café Express).

Phone: 713-639-7300

Parking:

Museum Parking Garage
Located directly east of the Beck and Law buildings, the MFAH Visitors Center features a four-story covered parking garage.

The easy-to-find parking entrance is on Binz, marked by a large, yellow arrow.

You're always protected from the elements when you park your car in the Museum Garage. From there, you can go to the Visitors Center lobby and find a ticketing desk and up-to-the minute museum information.

As an added convenience, you can enter the Beck and Law buildings from the Visitors Center through security-monitored, climate-controlled tunnels connecting all three buildings.

Accessibility Info: Currently, no accessibility information is available for this event.

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