Eighty students and faculty members from the art program participated in the annual field trip to The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Oct. 31.  Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, the Alice Pratt Brown curator of American paintings and sculpture, spoke to students about The Oxbow, a definitive American painting by Thomas Cole, and other works in The American Wing. Upper level art elective and humanities 250 students worked in sketchbooks on research assignments during the visit.

AP art history students spent the morning in the Renaissance galleries, ceramics students viewed ceramic pieces spanning various cultures and time periods, architecture students studied the building itself from The Great Hall to the Temple of Dendur, and portfolio students explored the 19th and early 20th-century European painting and modern and contemporary Art galleries. All students were encouraged to view special exhibitions, including “Epic Abstraction,” “The Last Knight,” “Felix Vallotton,” and Wangechi Mutu’s “The New Ones Will Free Us.” metmuseum.org.