Hermitage Auxiliary
The Hermitage Foundation Auxiliary is pleased to be able to offer the upcoming Course of Ten Lectures. The Auxiliary has opened its membership to all interested individuals for the coming year.
Annual membership is $75.00
Membership to the 'Hermitage Auxiliary' is separate from Hermitage Museum Membership
Additional benefits of your membership include:
-New-member coffee
-Coffees before each scheduled lecture
-Free admission to the Hermitage Museum & Gardens*
*Does not include Guided House Tour
To join the Hermitage Auxiliary contact Mary E. Moberg at (757) 623-1147 or emantem@earthlink.net or Click here for a registration form.
Lecture schedule for the year is as follows**:
**Limited to 20 seats. Students with proper ID are admitted free of charge.
Please note that all lectures are held at the Chrysler Museum and begin at 10:00 a.m.
2011
October 10
Georgia O'Keefe Reconsidered
Charles Eldredge, Ph.D, Hall Distinguished Professor
American Art and Culture, University of Kansas
October 24
Dream House: The White House Home as an American
Ulysses Dietz, Curator of The Decorative Arts at the Newark Museum
November 14
New England Paintings
Barbara Luck, Curator of Paintings at Colonial Williamsburg
December 12
Scarlett Doesn't Live Here: The Nineteenth-Century Landscape Tradition
Maurie McInnis, Ph.D., Associate Professor, American Art and Material Culture, Director, American Studies, University of Virginia
2012
January 9
The Restoration of Paintings, Where Every Picture Has a Story
Mark Lewis, Ph.D. Art Conservator, Chrysler Museum of Art
January 23
African Influences of African American Art
Ramona Austin, Ph.D., Curator and of Consultant at the Baron and Ellin Gordon Museum at Old Dominion University
February 13
Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
John Ravenal, Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
February 27
Dorothea Lange and the Art of Documentary Photography
Keith Davis, Curator of Photography at the Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City
March 12
Winslow Homer and the Lifeline: Themes of Shipwreck and Rescue
Kathleen Foster, Ph.D., Robert L. McNeil, Jr, Curator of American Art and Director of the Center for American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
March 26
First Annual Florence Sloane Memorial Lecture
Man For All Arts: The Life and Work of Louis Comfort TIffany
Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Curator, Department of Decorative Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art
