Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Our Old Masters in Context: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Past, Present, and Future
Timothy Rub, Director, The Cleveland Museum of Art
In conjunction with the Frick’s special exhibition Masterpieces of European Painting from The Cleveland Museum of Art (on view through January 28), the director of CMA will discuss the museum’s world-renowned collection and its $258 million renovation and expansion project.
Artists, Poets, and Writers Lecture Series
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
The Modernist Disconnection
Avigdor Arikha, artist
It took more than a thousand years to achieve art as masterly art but only a few decades to achieve non-art as art. How did this happen?
The Artists, Poets, and Writers Lecture Series is made possible through the generous support of the Drue Heinz Trust.
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
George Stubbs and the Political Art of Making Hay
Alex Kidson, Curator of British Art, Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool
Toward the end of his life, Stubbs painted a number of iconic depictions of farm laborers, which, in recent years, have prompted debate about the artist’s political views. This talk considers these works within the wider context of Stubbs’s political patronage and lifelong affiliations and argues that they provide one of the key definitions of his artistic achievement.
Alex Gordon Lecture in the History of Art
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
“Not so perfect as Mr. Hans could make it”: Hans Holbein as Portraitist
Susan Foister, Director of Collections and Curator of Early Netherlandish, German, and British Painting at the National Gallery, London
This lecture will explore the development of Holbein’s distinctive approach to portraiture in relation to the art of the portrait in sixteenth-century Europe, with a particular focus on the National Gallery’s Ambassadors.
Artists, Poets, and Writers Lecture Series
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Beckett’s Last Words
John Banville, writer
Although Samuel Beckett did not publish art criticism, his letters as a young man to friends, especially Thomas MacGreevy, the director of the National Gallery in Dublin, show him to be a gifted critic. This talk will focus on Beckett’s love of painting as well as on his final four texts, written between 1973 and 1988.
The Artists, Poets, and Writers Lecture Series is made possible through the generous support of the Drue Heinz Trust.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Cézanne in Provence
Philip Conisbee, Senior Curator of European Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
On the occasion of the special loan of Paul Cézanne’s rarely exhibited Bouilloire et Fruits, Philip Conisbee, organizer of the National Gallery of Art’s 2006 exhibition Cézanne in Provence, will discuss the artist, his relationship with his native Provence, and what was learned from the exhibition.
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
George Stubbs and the Image of the Horse
Malcolm Warner, Senior Curator, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
George Stubbs greatly resented the label “horse painter.” In fact, he drew and painted horses quite differently from any artist before him, bringing to his work a hard-won anatomical knowledge, a classical sensibility, and, at times, a powerful charge of intellectual and imaginative associations. This lecture will focus specifically on the work of the artist, the subject of the Frick’s current special exhibition.
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Why François Du Quesnoy Should Have “Dy’d Mad”: The Intentions of Roman Baroque Sculptors
Jennifer Montagu, Honorary Fellow, The Warburg Institute, London
When executing their works, Roman baroque sculptors took into account both the placement of the finished object — in niches, above eye level, or on the sidewalls of chapels — and the available light. The lecturer will discuss how they adapted their art to fit a specific site, and how we should look at it.
This lecture is the fifth in an annual series sponsored by the Council of The Frick Collection.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
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Michel Dorigny (French, Saint-Quentin 1616/1617 - 1665 Paris) Formerly attributed to Francesco Solimena; Italian, Canale di Serino 1657 - 1747 Barra; Study for the Muse Urania; black chalk, heightened with white; 11 9/16 x 14 7/8 in. (29.3 x 37.8 cm); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1970, 1970.242.1 |
The Collector’s Cut, or Why Pierre-Jean Mariette Tore Up His Raphael and Put It Back Together Again
Kristel Smentek, Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow
Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694–1774) is one of art history’s most famous collectors of drawings and prints. The lecturer will discuss Mariette’s ambitions as a collector and connoisseur, focusing particularly on his practice of disassembling and reconfiguring Old Master drawings.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Sir Thomas Lawrence and the Duke of Wellington: A Portraitist and His Sitter
Susan Jenkins, Senior Curator, English Heritage, Apsley House, London
This talk will explore the relationship between the artist Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830) and Arthur Wellesley (1769–1852), the first duke of Wellington, whom Lawrence painted seven times between 1814 and 1826. The lecturer also will discuss the formation of the magnificent picture collection at Apsley House, home to the duke and his descendants.
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
“Strange, ferocious, unkempt…with the reputation of an indefatigable draftsman”:
Introducing Gabriel de Saint-Aubin
Colin B. Bailey, Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, The Frick Collection
In conjunction with the Frick’s special exhibition Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (1724–1780), Colin B. Bailey, one of the show’s organizers, will discuss the life and career of this original and eccentric figure, placing him in the context of his time and examining the range of his artistic activities and ambitions, from history painter to assiduous cataloguer of auctions and art exhibitions.
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Gabriel de Saint-Aubin and the “Spectacle de l’histoire parisienne”
Kim de Beaumont, Guest Curator, The Frick Collection
Saint-Aubin’s lifelong immersion in Parisian opera and theater, motivated by an intense personal fascination and varied professional involvements, gave rise to the artist’s quintessentially theatrical vision of contemporary urban life and yielded many significant records of stage and musical performances in eighteenth-century Paris. This talk, presented by one of the show’s organizers, will explore the overlapping realms of theater and reality in Saint-Aubin’s oeuvre. |
