Please join The Alexander Gallery for a series of receptions, exhibitions and informal discussions with world renowned curators, art historians, restorers and collectors entitled Minds on Madison: Evenings for Collectors and Scholars.
These receptions will feature small exhibitions with a highly specialized theme. In attendance will be a select group of distinguished curators and academics as honored guests, as well as private collectors in the particular genre. The intimate setting of these special evenings will provide the ideal forum for provocative discussion in the continued pursuit of connoisseurship.
Forthcoming Events
November 29th, 2010 6:00 to 8:00pm
A Brush with Romanticism: Thomas Cole in the Rough
On view for this event will be a selection of Thomas Cole's preparatory oils for his most important works, including two recently discovered for the Voyage of Life and the Course of the Empire.
Our guests of honor for this event will be:
Carrie Rebora Barratt, Assoc. Director for Collections & Administration, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Elizabeth M. Kornhauser, Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Roberta J.M. Olson, Curator of Drawings, New York Historical Society
Also on view during this event will be an additional exhibition of early American paintings that were published in The Token, a series of gift books popular in the 1830?s and 1840?s.
October 6, 2010 (6:00 - 8:00 PM)
Souvenirs entre Nous: Important Portrait Miniatures from the American and French Revolutions
The first event in the series will feature two signature works by 16th Century Flemish artists, Diptych of Saint Jerome in his Study and The Holy Trinity by The Master of the Lille Adoration (c. 1530) and The Annunciation by Jan de Beer(1475-1528).
Our guests of honor for this event will be:
John Oliver Hand, curator of northern Renaissance paintings at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Peter van den Brink, director of the Aachen Museums, Germany
David Bull, former chief restorer at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Dr. Peter Klein, foremost specialist in Dendrochronology- (who will test a panel during the evening)
Proposed Upcoming Events Include:
January2011
Setting the Trap on Deys Street, 1843: Introducing
The Dead Fall,
An important early work by Martin Johnson Heade to be exhibited with the work it inspired by his neighbor, James Clonney