COMMUNITY SPEAKERS PROGRAM DOCENT COUNCIL OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCIscO Schedule of Illustrated Art Lectures Winter/Spring 2014 Georgia O’Keeffe, Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. 2, 1930. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery of Art, Washington. Image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington Docent Council Community Speakers Program Presented by the Docent Council of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Community Speakers Program features lectures written and delivered by docents. These lectures are delivered on site at the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor and are also offered on location to community groups throughout the Bay Area. We offer more than 100 lectures on different topics, primarily pertaining to the Museums’ special exhibitions and collections. Community Speakers docents are ambassadors to the public, and our goal is to encourage viewers to visit the museums. We have a longstanding tradition of excellence, education, and entertainment, imparting both enthusiasm and expertise in our presentations. Contents Special Exhibitions ....................................................................................................................................................................................3 Special Exhibitions ....................................................................................................................................................................................4 New Lectures ..............................................................................................................................................................................................4 Art through Time: The History of Art ................................................................................................................................................5 Arts of the Ancients: Egypt, Greece, Rome, and the Holy Land .........................................................................................6 Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas .....................................................................................................................................6 Traditions in Europe ..................................................................................................................................................................................7 Traditions in Europe ..................................................................................................................................................................................8 Traditions in Europe: Impressionism ................................................................................................................................................9 Traditions in Europe: Impressionism .............................................................................................................................................10 Art in Bloom ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 11 Sacred Art .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 11 A Proud Heritage: Art in America ...................................................................................................................................................12 A Proud Heritage: Art in America ...................................................................................................................................................13 Art in California.........................................................................................................................................................................................14 Local Color .................................................................................................................................................................................................15 Women Artists, Women Subjects ...................................................................................................................................................16 Photography and Graphic Arts: Prints, Drawings, and Works on Paper .....................................................................17 Art in the Third Dimension: Sculpture and Contemporary Craft .....................................................................................18 European Treasures: Furniture and the Decorative Arts ....................................................................................................19 American Treasures: Furniture and the Decorative Arts .....................................................................................................20 Elements of Art ........................................................................................................................................................................................20 Celebrations ..............................................................................................................................................................................................21 The Fiber Arts: Fashions and Embellishments .........................................................................................................................22 For fees and to schedule a lecture, contact Kay Payne: 2 650-384-6649 | [email protected] Special Exhibitions Winter/Spring 2014 Modern Nature: Georgia O’Keeffe and Lake George Modernism from the National Gallery of Art: From 1918 until the early 1930s, Georgia O’Keeffe retreated The Robert & Jane Meyerhoff Collection annually to Alfred Stieglitz’s family estate on Lake George in Among the nearly 50 first- upstate New York, where she reveled in the discovery of new ranked works featured are subject matter and found respite in the rural setting without Frank Stella’s Flin Flon IV, the distractions Jasper Johns’s Perilous of city life. Night, and Roy Lichtenstein’s O’Keeffe’s Painting with Statue of Liberty. experiences The centerpiece of the there inspired exhibit is Barnett Newman’s one of the most landmark 14-canvas series transformative The Stations of the Cross, and productive widely considered to be the periods of artist’s most important work. The Meyerhoffs provided the her career, funds for the purchase of the series in 1986 as their first gift to energizing the the National Gallery. Presented in a discrete, chapel-like room development of within the exhibition, the works will be experienced by visitors her signature modernist style. as the artist intended, displayed as an entire work in an intimate, de Young • February 15–May 11, 2014 contemplative space. de Young • June 7–October 12, 2014 Intimate Impressionism from the National Gallery of Art Intimate Impressionism includes Left, top to bottom: Georgia O’Keeffe, Lake George, 1922. Oil on canvas. San Francisco nearly 70 treasured paintings by Museum of Modern Art, gift of Charlotte Mack. © Georgia O’Keeffe 19th-century avant-garde artists. Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York The exhibition features a selection Berthe Morisot, The Artist’s Sister at a Window, 1869. Oil on canvas. Ailsa of intimately scaled Impressionist Mellon Bruce Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington Above: and Post-Impressionist paintings, Burgoyne Diller, First Theme, 1964. Oil on canvas. Collection of Robert and still lifes, portraits, and landscapes Jane Meyerhoff, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994.82.2 whose charm and fluency invite close scrutiny. Included are significant works by Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Georges Seurat, and Vincent van Gogh. Many paintings in the exhibition were displayed in domestic interiors, and they often became gifts shared among friends. Legion of Honor • March 29–August 3, 2014 For fees and to schedule a lecture, contact Kay Payne: 3 650-384-6649 | [email protected] Special Exhibitions New Lectures Lines on the Horizon: Native American Art from the What’s the Story? Narratives in Works from the Weisel Family Collection Permanent Collection The Thomas Weisel Family Collection is an extraordinary Discover lively stories from the Old collection of Native American art, Testament, the New Testament, spanning 1,000 years of artistic classical legends, Italian and French production from 11th-century poets, and American historical Mimbres ceramics to 20th-century figures. There’s more: Who inspired works by recognized artists such The Thinker? Where is “Carlotta as Nambeyo, with additional Valdez” from the movie Vertigo? It’s masterworks of Navajo weaving. all in this illuminating presentation de Young • May 3, 2014– of narratives seen in Fine Arts January 4, 2015 Museums artworks. Matisse from SFMOMA Shock of the Modern: Alfred Stieglitz and His Circle This single-gallery installation Travel back in time 100 years to meet Alfred Stieglitz, features 23 paintings, drawings, and photographer and modern-art impresario. A master at bronzes by Henri Matisse from the recognizing and nurturing talent, internationally acclaimed collection Stieglitz was the first to bring works at the San Francisco Museum of by Picasso, Matisse, and other Modern Art, joined by important important European artists to paintings and drawings from the American shores. The Stieglitz Circle collection of the Fine Arts Museums