“London Art Galleries and their Buildings”, Lecture and Tour at the Dulwich Picture Gallery
Deadline: 11th October 2001
Date:
Sunday 14th October 2001
Time: from 12.50 p.m - Lecture starts
at 1 p.m.
Venue: The Dulwich Picture Gallery,
Gallery Road, SE21 7AD
London
probably has the richest and most varied art collections of any city in
the world. These collections are housed in buildings which have been at
the cutting-edge of gallery design from the time of Sir John Soane's Dulwich
Picture Gallery in 1812, to the hugely successful Tate Modern of our own
day.
This talk and slide presentation will be hosted by Geoffrey Tyack - Director
of the Stanford Programme in Oxford. Geoffrey will trace the history of
the most celebrated art galleries - the National Gallery, the Tate, etc
- alongside the collections which they house. The lecture will be given
in the recent highly-acclaimed extension by Rick Mather to the Dulwich
Gallery, the first purpose-built public art gallery in Britain and a major
monument of European neo-classicism.
After the lecture and presentation, there will be a buffet lunch with
wine and refreshments. Guests will then have the opportunity to explore
the permanent collection of Old Master paintings, by Rembrandt, Rubens,
Poussin, Gainsborough and others. There will be a guided tour at 3 p.m
for guests who don’t want to tour the gallery independently.
There will also be an opportunity to view a remarkable collection of paintings
from the Hickman Bacon private collection. This is the greatest collection
of British watercolours of the period dominated by JMW Turner still in
private hands. All of the greatest names are represented - from JS Cotman
to David Cox, Girtin to Cozens, Peter de Wint to Gainsborough, Bonington
to Ruskin and many works by Turner himself.
Ticket Price: £21.00 per person (Includes entry, special exhibition & buffet/wine)
Bookings - Please email info@stanfordalumni.org.uk for a booking form.