Series: Lecture
Date: Tuesdays, October 7 & 14, 2008
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Venue: Davidson Auditorium, SOM
Event parking is available at Lot J

Ticket Prices: free

Oct. 7: Mrs. Bertha Palmer: A Collector Dealer in Gilded Age America

Oct. 14: Frederick Clay Bartlett: Post-Impressionism and Modern Art in the 1920's

Richard R. Brettell
UTD's Margaret McDermott Distinguished Professor of Art and Aesthetics

The Kimbell Art Museum's landmark exhibition in the summer and fall of 2008 is an exhibition of the major masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionist Painting from The Art Institute of Chicago. This group of more than 90 paintings and pastels is the finest in the United States and is second globally only to the collections at the Museum d'Orsay.

Richard Brettell served as the Searle Curator of European Painting and Sculpture at The Art Institute of Chicage between 1980 and 1988. Not only did he publish the collection extensively, but added major works to it through acquisition and negotiated gift.

In honor of the exhibition, Professor Brettell will give two public lectures on the two most important private collectors of French avant-garde painting in Chicago, Mrs. Bertha Palmer, who owned more than ninety paintings by Monet during her lifetime, and Mr. Frederick Clay Bartlett, whose private collection was given to The Art Institute of Chicago in 1926 with major paintings by Cezanne, van Gogh, Seurat, Gauguin, Picasso, Hodler, and Matisse.