Special Themed Tour: Prints

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.