Tour to the National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition, “Elaine de Kooning
Portraits,” and other Washington, DC attractions, October 17-18, 2015
Please join us for a two-day excursion to Washington, DC,
where we will visit the acclaimed exhibition, “Elaine de
Kooning Portraits,” at the National Portrait Gallery. Many
of Elaine’s most important subjects—including her husband
Willem de Kooning, art critic Harold Rosenberg, poet Allen
Ginsberg, choreographer Merce Cunningham and President
John F. Kennedy—are represented in this, the most
comprehensive show of her portraits ever assembled.
According to art critic Tim Keane, it brilliantly illuminates
the career of “an American artist who redirected techniques
of twentieth-century vanguard painting into a form of
portraiture that is as much about the rhythms and processes
of human recognition as it is about the diverse characters
who were her subjects.” Our tour of the galleries on
Saturday will be personally conducted by the exhibition’s
curator, Brandon Brame Fortune.
The tour price includes round-trip transportation via deluxe Hampton Jitney motor coach, driver
and escort gratuities, one night hotel accommodations (including room taxes and baggage
handling), one dinner, one breakfast, and a half-day tour of Washington attractions before
returning to the Hamptons via Manhattan on Sunday.
A non-refundable deposit of $150 per person is due by August 1. To make your reservation,
call Krista Biedenbach at the Pollock-Krasner House, 631-324-4929. Credit cards accepted.
Prices
Per person, based on 40 passengers
$275 Double occupancy
$330 Single occupancy
$255 Triple or quadruple occupancy
Per person, based on 30 passengers
$300 Double occupancy
$365 Single occupancy
$295 Triple or quadruple occupancy
Itinerary
Saturday, October 17
7:00 a.m.
Coach arrives at the free overnight parking lot on Long Island Avenue in Sag
Harbor.
7:30
Coach departs for Washington, DC. There will be a rest / lunch stop en route
(meal not included in tour price).
9:30
Pickup in Manhattan at Bryant Park, 42nd Street between 5th and 6th Avenues.
3:00 p.m.
Arrival at the National Portrait Gallery. Refreshments are available in the
Courtyard Café.
3:30
Tour of the exhibition with curator Brandon Fortune.
5:30
Coach departs for Tysons Corner Marriott.
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7:00
Dinner at the hotel (included in tour price).
Evening on your own.
Sunday, October 18
7:30 a.m.
Full American breakfast at the hotel (included in tour price)
8:00
Coach leaves for Washington, DC, via landmarks and memorials in Arlington.
10:00
Coach arrives at the National Mall. Guests may visit any of the Smithsonian
museums or other Washington attractions on their own.
Lunch on your own.
2:00 p.m.
Coach departs from the rendezvous point on the National Mall. There will be a
rest / dinner stop en route (meal not included in tour price).
7:00
Coach returns to Bryant Park, Manhattan.
9:00
Coach returns to the Sag Harbor parking lot.
Two of the paintings by Elaine de Kooning on view in
the National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition.