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Drop-in Tour | True Blue Art

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Wed. Jun. 24, 2026 1:30 PM-2:30 PM
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Location Main Campus | Beck Building

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Events

Drop-in Tour | True Blue Art

Date & Time

Wed. Jun. 24, 2026 1:30 PM-2:30 PM
This event has passed

Location Main Campus | Beck Building

Parking at Beck Garage
Drop off at Beck Building

Artists have been fascinated by the color blue since ancient times when lapis lazuli was first mined in what is today Afghanistan. Why use blue? What does blue symbolize? Investigate the wonder of blue on this tour of works from the ancient world to the Renaissance.

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Learning and Interpretation programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive generous support from H-E-B; Sempra Foundation; the Brown Foundation, Inc.; the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo; the Joe Barnhart Foundation; the Cockrell Family Fund; the CFP Foundation; the Claire & Theodore Morse Foundation; the Junior League of Houston, Inc.; and additional generous donors.
 
Endowment funds are provided by the Louise Jarrett Moran Bequest; Caroline Wiess Law; Windgate Foundation; the William Randolph Hearst Foundation; Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff; the Fondren Foundation; BMC Software, Inc.; the Wallace Foundation; the Neal Myers and Ken Black Children’s Art Fund; the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation; Medha and Shashank Karve; Virginia and Ira Jackson; Jesse H. Jones II; the CFP Foundation; the Favrot Fund; gifts in memory of John Wynne; Neiman Marcus Youth Arts Education; gifts in memory of Peter Lotz; and gifts in honor of Beth Schneider.
 
On Thursdays, admission to the MFAH Permanent Collections is free, courtesy of Shell USA, Inc.