MFAH Online Book Club
The MFAH Online Book Club, designed for existing book clubs, links works of literature to art in the museum’s collections.
Participating in the MFAH Online Book Club is easy!
- Select one of the book selections below and download the accompanying discussion guide.
- Read the book in your own book club, and use the discussion guide to facilitate your conversation.
- Bring the members of your book club to the museum for a guided MFAH Book Club Visit to look at works of art in the museum’s collection in connection with the book.
- Become a part of the MFAH Online Book Club community. Sign up for the Book Club e-newsletter to receive announcements of new book selections and information on activities.
Not in a book club? Feel free to read the books, use the guides, and sign up for the newsletter on your own.
Current Selections
(Click on each link for a book summary and discussion guide)
This season, the MFAH Online Book Club features The Awakening by Kate Chopin and The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton in conjunction with the exhibitions Sargent and the Sea, Houston´s Sargents, and Prendergast in Italy. These exhibitions showcase the work of John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) and Maurice Prendergast (1858-1924), two American painters who had a major impact on 20th century American art. The novels of American writers Kate Chopin (1851-1904) and Edith Wharton (1862-1937)—contemporaries of Sargent and Prendergast—invite a fascinating conversation with and about the artists´ works on view. Book Club Visits for these books begin in February and will be offered through May 2010.
Please note: there are many editions of these two books available. The MFAH is using (and selling) the Norton Critical Editions of each — they are full of a wealth of additional materials: reading notes, historical information, illustrations, and essays.
Support the museum by purchasing your books through MFAH Shop.
Questions? E-mail bookclub@mfah.org for more information.
John Singer Sargent, Mrs. Joshua Montgomery Sears (Sarah Choate Sears), 1899, oil on canvas, the MFAH, gift of George R. Brown in honor of his wife, Alice Pratt Brown.
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