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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Monumental Museum Architecture: The DIA and Paul Cret
Speaker James W. Tottis, Independent Curator
In 1924 the DIA broke ground on a structure designed by Paul Cret yet enormously influenced by the Director Wilhelm Valentiner and Clyde Burroughs, first curator of American Art. These diverging philosophies, coupled with embellishments to the structure by Samuel Yellin, The Edward F. Caldwell Company, Pewabic Pottery and others, resulted in what was heralded at its opening in 1927 as the model for the modern art museum.
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction
Speaker Barbara Haskell, Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art
While Georgia O’Keeffe’s flowers and landscapes made her one of the most celebrated figures of 20th-century art, few people are familiar with the radical abstractions she created throughout her career. This lecture will examine Georgia O’Keeffe as one of America’s first and most daring abstract artists.
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Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Sunlight and Moon Shadows: Images of the South, 1890-1930
Speaker Nancy Rivard Shaw, Curator Emeritus of American Art, DIA
After moving to South Carolina in 1998, Nancy Rivard Shaw turned her attention to Southern art, particularly impressionism, which evolved separately from the North. She has written extensively on such well-known artists as Elliott Daingerfield, as well as more obscure figures like Kelly Fitzpatrick, Lawrence Mazzanovich, Helen Turner, Catharine Wiley and others. Utilizing a wide range of strategies and techniques, these artists created atmospheric images of verdant gardens, bucolic vistas, and quaint city views.
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Evolution of Collecting Arts and Crafts Material
Speaker David Rago, President, Rago Arts and Auction Center
At the age of sixteen, David Rago began dealing in American decorative ceramics at a flea market in his home state of New Jersey. Today, he oversees the auction house that bears his name, sells privately in the field of Arts and Crafts and publishes two quarterly magazines about 20th-century decorative arts and furnishings. He is an author who lectures nationally and an expert appraiser for the hit PBS series Antiques Roadshow where he specializes in decorative ceramics and porcelain.
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
The Clyde H. Burroughs Legacy: A Mark on Detroit’s Artistic Community During the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Speaker Michael E. Crane, Fine Arts Consultant
How did the Monroe County-born schoolteacher become the first Curator of American Art, Director, and Secretary of the Detroit Institute of Arts? Burroughs’ legacy, in part, includes two important exhibitions that helped shape aspects of the DIA’s permanent collection and played a larger part in the planning and layout of the DIA’s American Galleries with the 1927 Cret Building. This lecture will examine Burroughs’ accomplishments with the collection at the DIA along with his influence on the Scarab Club as a founding member.
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