We have finished our classes and are now doing our demo tours. I did mine today and I can now call myself an active docent with the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. This is so exciting for me. My demo tour was attended by Nancy our instructor, of course, Subie my mentor, Subie's sister, Julie, and Beth. Thank you ladies. It was great fun.
Thursday we have our newbie reception. The Amon Carter knows how to do it right. They appreciate all of their volunteers and let us know it. Thank you ACMAA.
I have not been able to attend any other demo tours due to a lot of work around this very old house. Sorry to my fellow intern docents for missing your tours. It would be interesting to see the difference in our presentations.
During my tour today I mentioned that Stuart Davis had five watercolors in the 1913 Armory Show in NY. The fact that he was participating at such a young age was extraordinary. I located two of them (Servant Girls and Babe la Tour) and indeed they are great. They were priced at $100.00 each but I do not know if they sold. However, Stuart said the Armory Show turned him to modern art. Whatever he painted in whatever medium Stuart was fantastic. Even though these are not part of the ACMAA I thought they were too beautiful to not share.
As I stated early in the blog this would only last as long as the class, so this is it. I have put a lot of the collection of the ACMAA on these posts, but not all. The museum is once again going through a renovation and the work now put up will be returned to the walls. I will start a new blog at that time about what is happening at the ACMAA.
Until then, keep art in your life and in schools.
Caroline
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| Servant Girls 1913 |
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| Babe la Tour 1912 |
