The Clark, Williams College Museum of Art, The Norman Rockwell Museum, Great Barrington Holiday Stroll | Williamstown, MA, Stockbridge, MA, & Great Barrington, MA

A few weeks ago I traveled to Massachusetts to spend the weekend with a friend. On our agenda: art museums and anything Christmasy. We ended up visiting The Clark, the Williams College Museum of Art, The Norman Rockwell Museum, and we participated in the Holiday Stroll in a nearby little town. 

At The Clark we saw a sample their newly installed permanent collection (the museum is currently adding several additions to their building and many of their galleries are closed) and a temporary exhibit that compared Degas to Rembrant.

John Singer Sargent, A Street in Venice, 1880-81

John Singer Sargent, Portrait of Carolus-Duran, 1879 

John Singer Sargent, A Venetian Interior, 1880-82

John Singer Sargent, Smoke of Ambergris, 1880

J.M.W. Turner, Off Ramsgate, 1840

The Williams College Museum of Art had one of the surviving copies of The Constitution of the United States on loan (it had notes and corrections written in the margins) along with a copy of England's response to the Declaration of Independence. Also, in addition to The Norman Rockwell Museum's fabulous permanent collection the museum had an exhibition about Curious George and its creators. 

The Holiday Stroll was absolutely fantastic with sidewalk vendors, cute little shops, faux snow, young ballet dancers, and carolers! It definitely got me in the Christmas spirit!