A Closer Look: Art at the Maier Lunch & Lecture Series

7/17/19: SALES FOR ALL LECTURE DATES ARE CLOSED DUE TO FULL REGISTRATION.

Art historian Kathleen Placidi will offer three focused lectures exploring people, places, and ideas in 19th – 21st century American art from the Randolph College art Collection housed at the Maier Museum of Art.

Doors open at 10 a.m. for coffee and tea. Boxed lunches at Noon, following the lecture.

SALES CLOSED July 12 | People Who Paint People: Portraits & Portraitists
Discover portraits and self-portraits in the Collection as well as portrait artists represented in the collection, such as James Abbott McNeill Whistler.

SALES CLOSED July 19 | Places & Spaces: Landscapes
Learn about a selection of landscapes, primarily paintings, as well as photographs from the Collection.

SALES CLOSED- REGISTRATION IS FULL July 26 | Rare of the rare ones”: Stieglitz, O’Keeffe & Early Modernist Art
“Rare of the rare ones” is a quote from a letter from Alfred Stieglitz to the College’s President at the time, Theodore Jack regarding Georgia O’Keeffe’s work “Yellow Cactus.” This talk will focus on early modernism in the Collection, largely painters represented by Stieglitz, such as O’Keeffe, Marin, Hartley, Arthur Dove, as well as Stuart Davis and others.

TICKETS

$50 Full Series   |   $20/Single Lecture
Members*: $40 Full Series  |  $15/Single Lecture

Ticket price includes a boxed lunch, see below for options. Tickets sales close at 11:59pm the Sunday prior to the lecture date.

or print/complete this form and mail payment at least 10 days prior to the first lecture you plan to attend.

Boxed Lunch Options

Each boxed lunch includes chips, cookie and bottled water. 

• Vegetarian: Greek Salad Wrap with Crumbled Feta, Black Olives, Fresh Cucumbers, Plum Tomatoes and Red Onion
• Roast Beef with Tarragon Horseradish Spread on Wheatberry Bread
• Deli Sliced Ham with Honey Mustard Dressing on Ciabatta Bread
• Turkey Breast with Mesclun Greens and Sage Cream Cheese on Ciabatta Bread
• Chicken Caesar Wrap

*Maier Members have been sent a discount code to use online or can mail payment (with boxed lunch selection). If you are a member and have not received the code or have questions, please contact Maier office manager, Danni Schreffler at museum@randolphcollege.edu or 434-947-8136.

Images (Left to Right): Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins, Portrait Sketch of William H. MacDowell (detail), ca. 1891, oil on canvas. Thomas Cole, Corway Peak, New Hampshire (detail), 1844, oil on canvas. Georgia O’Keeffe, Yellow Cactus, 1940, oil on canvas. All works: collection of the Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College.