Presentations
My topics are selected from areas of interest and requests, and are often coordinated with current exhibitions in major area museums, such as the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA) and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York; also smaller area museums such as Peabody-Essex Museum in Salem, MA and The Clark Institute in Williamstown, MA, as well as others, both near and far.
Topics can vary, including areas listed below.
Examining the lives and works of famous artists
- “Edward Hopper: American Icon”
- “Pablo Picasso: Creative Genius”
- “Mary Cassatt: Beloved American Impressionist”
- “JMW Turner: A Painter for his Time”
- “Henri Matisse: Master of Color”
- “Edouard Manet: Painter of Modern Life”
- “Norman Rockwell: American Original”
- “Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: Paris, Posters and Prints”
- “Edgar Degas: Impressionism with Distinction”
- “Claude Monet: Color and Light”
- “Georgia O’Keeffe – “ American Painter”
- “Vincent Van Gogh: Painter of Emotions”
- “Frida Kahlo: Art and Feminism”
- "John Singer Sargent: A Charmed Life”
- "Paul Cézanne: Father of Modern Art"
- “Hello, Dali”
Looking more closely into art movements
- “The Abstract Expressionist Women”
- “The Wyeths”
- “French Pastels”
- “The Golden Age of Dutch Art”
- “Survey of American Art“
- “A Force for Change: African American Art”
- “Vollard and the Avant Garde”
- “Italian Futurism”
- “American Impressionism: William Merritt Chase and The Ten”
- “Art of the Harlem Renaissance”
- ”The School of Paris: Modigliani, Soutine, Chagall”
Specific Exhibitions
- “A Baker’s Dozen: Selections from PAAM’s Permanent Collection”
- “The Armory Show of 1913: When Modern Art Came to America”
- “Howard Gibbs: Brewster Artist”
- “Janis Biala and Adolph Gottlieb”
- “Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti” film revue discussion"
- “Matisse and Picasso and the Avant Garde”
- “Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Works in The Hyman Collection: A Closer Look (Cape Cod Museum of Art)“
- “Howard Gibbs and Eugene Fitsch: Two Brewster Artists, Together Again“