Works on Paper Highlights Talk: Many Happy Returns!
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
1:00 PM–1:30 PM
Manton Study Center for Works on Paper
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2024 marks the two-hundredth birthday anniversaries of several artists in the Clark's collection, including Jean-Léon Gérôme, Adolphe-Joseph-Thomas Monticelli, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Jozef Israëls, and William Morris Hunt. In the first of this summer's Works on Paper Highlights Talks, Associate Curator Alexis Goodin highlights a selection of drawings and prints by these figures, discussing events of 1824 and paying particular attention to the early opportunities and influences that shaped each artist's career.
Visit the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper, which houses the Clark's collection of more than 6,500 prints, drawings, and photographs. Each week, discover a unique selection of rarely exhibited works on paper with a member of the curatorial department. Offered Wednesdays in August from 1–1:30 pm.
Topics and presenters include:
August 7: "Many Happy Returns!" with Alexis Goodin, associate curator
August 14: "Curator’s Choice" with Esther Bell, deputy director and Robert and Martha Berman Lipp Chief Curator
August 21: "Edgar Degas Bonus Selection" with Anne Leonard, Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
August 28: "Views of Venice" with William Satloff, graduate intern in the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper
Free. Capacity is limited. Seating is first-come, first-served.
The Manton Study Center for Works on Paper is located next to the Edgar Degas: Multi-Media Artist in the Age of Impressionism exhibition in the Manton Research Center.
Image: William Morris Hunt, A Winter Stag (detail), 1866, lithograph on gray paper mounted on wove paper. The Clark, 1987.53
Visit the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper, which houses the Clark's collection of more than 6,500 prints, drawings, and photographs. Each week, discover a unique selection of rarely exhibited works on paper with a member of the curatorial department. Offered Wednesdays in August from 1–1:30 pm.
Topics and presenters include:
August 7: "Many Happy Returns!" with Alexis Goodin, associate curator
August 14: "Curator’s Choice" with Esther Bell, deputy director and Robert and Martha Berman Lipp Chief Curator
August 21: "Edgar Degas Bonus Selection" with Anne Leonard, Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
August 28: "Views of Venice" with William Satloff, graduate intern in the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper
Free. Capacity is limited. Seating is first-come, first-served.
The Manton Study Center for Works on Paper is located next to the Edgar Degas: Multi-Media Artist in the Age of Impressionism exhibition in the Manton Research Center.
Image: William Morris Hunt, A Winter Stag (detail), 1866, lithograph on gray paper mounted on wove paper. The Clark, 1987.53
