Special Themed Tour: Prints

REGISTER HERE Special Tour: Hill-Stead’s Japanese Prints and Works on Paper Limit 10 people Offered May 30 and September 25 at 2:30PM Focusing on the remarkable works on paper at Hill-Stead, this special tour invites visitors into the museum’s archives where works by Degas, Cassatt, and Goya, not to mention Japanese masters Hiroshige, Hokusai, and Utamaro, are displayed.  After discussing these artworks and introducing visitors to a variety of printmaking techniques, the tour then proceeds to the museum’s second floor…

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September 25, 2025 @ 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

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35 Mountain Rd
Farmington, CT United States

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Special Tour: Hill-Stead’s Japanese Prints and Works on Paper
Limit 10 people
Offered May 30 and September 25 at 2:30PM
Focusing on the remarkable works on paper at Hill-Stead, this special tour invites visitors into the museum’s archives where works by Degas, Cassatt, and Goya, not to mention Japanese masters Hiroshige, Hokusai, and Utamaro, are displayed.  After discussing these artworks and introducing visitors to a variety of printmaking techniques, the tour then proceeds to the museum’s second floor to examine numerous etchings by Whistler and a suite of master engravings by Dürer. The tour concludes with the works on paper on the museum’s ground floor, from a Matisse etching to a drawing by Manet to two pastels by Degas, which are framed in relation to these artists’ significant investment in printmaking as a form of art.
Note: To take this tour, visitors need to be comfortable with stairs.
Tickets
$20 Members
$24 Non-Members
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