Lectures
The Somerset Art Association is hosting several events in October 2009, during nationally recognized Breast Cancer Awareness Month, to raise awareness through the power of the visual arts about breast cancer which strikes 182,460 women annually.
2010 Spring Lecture Series
Generously Sponsored by Merrill G. & Emita E. Hastings Foundation
American Realism:
Winslow Homer, Fairfield Porter,
Andrew Wyeth & Philip Pearlstein
Monday, March 8
7:00-9:00 pm
Speaker: Mel Leipzig
Mel Leipzig will discuss the tradition of American realism as expressed in the works of Winslow Homer (1836-1910), Fairfield Porter (1907-1975), Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) and Philip Pearlstein (b. 1924).
Mel Leipzig is a Professor of Art at Mercer County College which he has taught fine art and lectured on art history for over 35 years. He is also a nationally recognized artist whose works are in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC; Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; The White House Collection, Washington D.C.; New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ; Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ; Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ; and Cooper-Hewitt Museum for Decorative Arts, NYC among others. In 2006, Mr. Leipzig was elected to the prestigious National Academy of Design, NYC.
Treasures from The National Gallery in London
Thursday, April 15, 2010
7:00-8:00 pm
Speaker: Dr. Barbara Tomlinson
Unlike the Louvre or the Hermitage, the National Gallery in London does not consist primarily of the remains of a formerly Royal collection. This museum was deliberately assembled to be a course in Western painting for a democratic society. Starting at one end and walking through to the other, the visitor not only enjoys a succession of masterpieces rom every period in Western art, but can easily trace the development of painting from the Renaissance to the Impressionists.. This talk offers a virtual tour of this stunning collection.
Dr. Barbara Tomlinson received a B.A. from Barnard College, her Masters from Harvard University and her Doctorate from Rutgers University. Having retired from Kean University in 2000, Dr. Tomlinson now devotes her time to offering adult education courses on art and culture.
The Isenheim Altarpiece
Thursday, May 13
7:00-8:00 pm
Speaker: Dr. Gretchen Atwater
The magnificent Isenheim Altarpiece, painted between 1510 and 1515 by Matthais Grünewald for the Abbey of Saint Anthony in Isenheim, is one of the masterpieces of German Renaissance art. This exceptionally complex and emotionally moving work will be considered in its cultural and historical context.
Dr. Gretchen D. Atwater, is an art historian who specializes in seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Kansas where she wrote her dissertation on the influence of trade by the Dutch East India Company on Netherlandish art.
Cost per lecture:
Free to SAA members
$15 per lecture, non-members
All lectures to be held at the Clarence Dillon Public Library, Bedminster.
Seating is limited; call SAA at 908-234-2345 to register.
