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Gallery Talks

"Desert Island" Lectures on "painting quickly and painting slowly"
Thursdays, June 7 through August 30, 12:30 pm

This summer, the Clark's popular lunchtime lecture series "Desert Island Pictures" will reflect the themes of "painting quickly and painting slowly," in honor of the exhibition Impression: Painting Quickly in France, 1860-1890. Every Thursday, Clark curators and Williams College art faculty will discuss works in the Clark collection that they would take with them if "stranded on a desert island." Some will examine works that, like the paintings in Impression, were painted in a short period of time, while others will take the opposite approach and focus on the highly finished paintings of the Old Masters. Visitors may purchase lunch in the Clark Café or bring a bag lunch to eat before or after each half-hour talk.

June 7: Dismounted: The Fourth Trooper Moving the Led Horses by Frederic Remington
Brian Allen, Director of Curatorial Administration

June 14: The Warrior by Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Richard Rand, Senior Curator and Curator of Paintings and Sculpture

June 21: Boulevard Clichy, Effect of Winter Sunlight by Camille Pissarro
James A. Ganz, Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs

June 28: Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist by Botticelli
Alexis Goodin, Assistant Curator

July 5: The Bath by Berthe Morisot
Carolyn Halprin-Healy, independent museum educator

July 12: Nymphs and Satyr by William Bouguereau
Sarah Lees, Research Associate

July 19: The Bay of Naples by Pierre-August Renoir
Richard Rand, Senior Curator and Curator of Paintings and Sculpture

July 26: Two works by George Inness
Charles Palermo, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, Williams College

August 2: Eastern Point and West Point, Prout's Neck by Winslow Homer
Brian Allen, Director of Curatorial Administration

August 9: A Venetian Interior by John Singer Sargent
Marc Simpson, Associate Director of the Clark/Williams Graduate Program in the History of Art

August 16: Virgin and Child with Saints by Ugolino da Siena
Michael Cassin, Curator of Education

August 23: Sleeping Girl with a Cat by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Adam Greenhalgh, Curatorial Assistant

August 30: Sepulcrum Christi by Perugino
Michael Cassin, Curator of Education




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