Worcester Art Museum Trip

         On Thursday, October 18th, CAH took a day-long excursion to Worcester, MA. Members started off at the Worcester Art Museum, for a docent-led tour of their permanent art collection.  Alice Delana was an excellent guide with a contagious enthusiasm about the city and her knowledge of its past and present. Opened in 1898, the permanent collection at the Worcester Art Museum spans 5,000 years of art ranging from Impressionist paintings and contemporary art, to Roman mosaics. Current special exhibitions worth noting were the new installation of fifty works of art from the mid-20th century, as well as an exhibit entitled Kennedy to Kent State; Images of a Generation, which presented some of the most powerful photographs from the 1958 to 1975. All part of the Worcester Art Museum's permanent collection, these images were collected by Howard G. Davis as a visual representation of the era which shaped him.

Bernie Boston, Flower Power, 1967

                    

               Following the tour, CAH members enjoyed a delicious lunch and excellent service at a local seafood restaurant called The Sole Proprietor. Afterwards, all ventured on to the Higgins Armory to view a very unique collection of arms and armor from ancient Greece & Rome, Africa, the Middle East, India, Japan, and Medieval & Renaissance era Europe.