Mead Audio Tours
Each episode of this podcast features Amherst College students discussing a single work of art in the museum's collection. The "Mead Audio Tours" podcast can be enjoyed at home, but listeners are also encouraged to learn more while looking at the actual artwork! Click here for directions on how to download this podcast to an iPod (or other portable mp3 player) before visiting the museum.
Subscribe to RSS feed
Subscribe to iTunes podcast


April 23rd, 2008
Zah-hak Receiving the Nobility
AC P.1940.4
Artist Unknown, Persian
Watercolor and gold leaf on parchment, 16th Century
Gift of the Amherst Dilettanti

April 22nd, 2008
Olive Trees in the Garden of Gethsemane
AC 1961.138
Edward Lear, British, 1812-1888
Watercolor on paper, 1858
Museum Purchase

April 21st, 2008
Temple of Divo Traiano
AC 1976.49
Hubert Robert, French, 1733-1808
Watercolor
Bequest of Shirley Orr Stillson

April 20th, 2008
El Ghor
AC 1955.314
John Singer Sargent, American, 1856-1925
Watercolor, gouache on paper, 1905-1906
Museum purchase

April 19th, 2008
Landscape
AC 1952.20
Alexander Helwig Wyant, American, 1836-1892
Watercolor
Gift of William Macbeth, Inc.

April 18th, 2008
The Garden, Appledore, Isle of Shoals
AC 1950.9
Childe Hassam, American, 1859-1935
Watercolor, 1891
Gift of William Macbeth, Inc

April 17th, 2008
Band Concert
AC 1951.336
Maurice Prendergast, American, 1859-1924
Watercolor, pencil on paper, ca. 1912
Museum Purchase

April 16th, 2008
Modern 1939 Venus
AC 1956.66
Reginald Marsh, American, 1898-1954
Watercolor
Gift of Mr. Robert G. McIntyre, William Macbeth, Inc.

April 15th, 2008
Maine Series
AC 1954.12
John Marin, American, 1870-1953
Watercolor on white paper
Museum Purchase, 1925

April 14th, 2008
Antique Dealer's Porch
AC 1948.38
Louis Joseph Kaep, American, 1903-1991
Watercolor on paper
Gift of the Childe Hassam Fund through
American Academy of Arts and Sciences

April 13th, 2008
Study for "Wind from the Sea"
AC 2001.310
Andrew Newell Wyeth, American, born 1917
Watercolor on paper, ca. 1947
Gift of the artist

April 12th, 2008
Untitled
AC 1993.16
Albert Christ-Janer, American, 1910-1973
Watercolor

April 11th, 2008
Toxic Run-Off: Tranquil Bay
AC 2002.128
Adam Straus, American, born 1956
Oil on paper, 2000
Museum Purchase

April 10th, 2008
Kismet #2
AC 2007.12
Richard Yarde, American, born 1939
Watercolor and gouache on paper, 2006
Purchase with Wise Fund for Fine Arts

March 30th, 2008
Is Math Art?
In this episode, the students of Prof. Ben Hutz's Math 13 class describe the process of making three-dimensional models of objects measured in works of art at the Mead. The models are composed of spheres, cylindrical surfaces, quadric surfaces, ellipsoids, paraboloids, elliptic cones, and hyperboloids. For many of these students, visiting the Mead was their first experience in an art museum, and they discuss how this project inspired them, how it made them look at art differently, and whether or not they consider themselves to be artists.

March 29th, 2008
The Past and The Present
AC 1950.189
AC 1950.190
AC 1951.338
AC 1951.339
Thomas Cole, American, 1801-1848
Oil on canvas, 1838
Museum purchase

March 28th, 2008
Eleanor Phipps Blackstone & Benjamin Blackstone Jr.
AC 1945.13
AC 1945.14
John Singleton Copley, American, ca. 1738-1815
Oil on canvas, 1763
Bequest of Herbert L. Pratt (Class of 1895)

March 27th, 2008
Anne In Black Velvet
AC P.1932.1
George Wesley Bellows, American, 1882-1925
Oil on panel, 1917
Gift of George D. Pratt (Class of 1893)

March 24th, 2008
Gelede Mask and Ibeji Twins
AC 2003.99
Gelede Mask
Unknown, Yoruba
Wood, pigment, C. 1920's - 1930's
AC 2002.293.1,2
Ibeji Twins
Unknown, Yoruba
Wood, cowrie shells, fabric, pigment

March 23th, 2008
Le Travail interrompu (Penelope)
AC 1971.54
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, French, 1825-1905
Oil on canvas, 1891
Museum purchase

March 22th, 2008
Clover Fields
AC 1972.114
Rockwell Kent, American, 1882-1971
Oil on canvas, 1939-1940
Gift of Mrs. Robert A. Arms in memory of Robert A. Arms (Class of 1927)

March 20th, 2008
St. Sebastian
AC 1989.2
Jan Boeckhorst, Flemish, 1605-1668
Oil on canvas
Museum purchase

March 14th, 2008
In a Garden, Corfu
John Singer Sargent, American, 1856 - 1925
Oil on canvas, 1909
Private Collection

March 13th, 2008
The Fisher Girl
AC P.1933.7
Winslow Homer, American, 1836 - 1910
Oil on canvas, 1894
Gift of George D. Pratt (Class of 1893)

March 12th, 2008
Charity Enlightening the World
AC 1961.142
Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish, 1577 - 1640
Oil on panel, C. 1627-28
Museum purchase