Guided Day Trip to Harn Museum of Art & More with Ruth Grim

Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025 | 8:30am - 5:30pm

Join OMAM Guest Curator Ruth Grim on a guided visit to the Harn Museum of Art in Gainesville to enjoy their new exhibition, French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850-1950, as well as the many other art treasures on view in this museum which is one of Florida’s longstanding major arts institutions. A not-to-be-missed event, this exhibit showcases more than 55 works including paintings, drawings and sculptures, from the Brooklyn Museum’s esteemed collection of European art. The Harn’s presentation of French Moderns also features Claude Monet’s Waterloo Bridge, on loan from the Lowe Art Museum, and Champ d’avoine (Oat Field) from the Harn’s collection. The exhibition spans the era between the Revolution of 1848 and the conclusion of World War II—a period marked by significant social, intellectual, and political upheaval in France.

This era saw the emergence of avant-garde artistic movements including Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, Fauvism, Cubism, and Surrealism, which left a lasting impact on the Western artistic tradition. These key movements are represented in the exhibition through remarkable examples by the era’s leading artists, including Pierre Bonnard, Gustave Caillebotte, Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Gabriele Münter, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Auguste Rodin, and others. The sheer number of Impressionist masters on view in this exhibition is remarkable and a rare opportunity for Florida audiences.

After visiting the Harn Museum, we will venture south through Payne’s Prairie for a step into Old Florida at the historic towns of Cross Creek and Micanopy. Lunch will be available at The Yearling, a landmark restaurant in Central Florida on the land that is now the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings State Park. After experiencing the Florida this famous writer called home and which inspired her classic novel, we will stop in the charming small town of Micanopy which was the site for the filming of the 1991 movie “Doc Hollywood.” Micanopy lives up to its reputation as one of Florida’s best small-town experiences complete with historic buildings, Spanish moss-draped live oaks, mansions, antique stores and more.

Our chartered bus will depart from OMAM promptly at 8:30am and will return to OMAM by 5:30pm. The (non-refundable) trip registration fee is $45 Museum/Guild members and $55 non-members. Participants are responsible for paying for their own meals, and other expenses. 

Tentative Trip Itinerary

Nov. 6, 2025

• 8:30am bus departs OMAM, 78 E. Granada Boulevard, Ormond Beach
• 10:30am bus arrives at Harn Museum of Art
• 10:45am docent tour of French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850-1950
• 11:45am-12:45pm free time to enjoy the rest of the museum
• 12:45am bus departs Harn
• 1:15-2:15pm lunch at The Yearling restaurant in Cross Creek
• 2:15pm board bus for neighboring Micanopy
• 2:30-3:30pm time to stroll shops and galleries on main street (or even their small history museum)
• 3:30pm bus departs for OMAM
• 5:30pm bus arrives at OMAM

About the Curator

Ruth Grim has a Master of Arts from the New York University Institute of Fine Arts with a specialization in 18th and 19th century European art. Her museum career spans 32 years of curatorial work throughout the state including 18 years at the Bass Museum in Miami Beach, seven years at the Appleton Museum of Art in Ocala, and more than six years as chief curator at the Museum of Arts & Sciences in Daytona Beach.