Evening lectures by distinguished guest speakers address a range of topics relating to the appreciation and interpretation of art. They are free and open to the public.
George T. M. Shackelford, deputy director, Kimbell Art Museum
Over the course of his long career—lasting more than half a century—Pierre Bonnard had significant friendships with artists both renowned and nowadays forgotten. Three of the greatest painters of his age were particularly important to him: his closest friend of the 1890s, the fellow Nabi Édouard Vuillard; the grand old man of Impressionism, Claude Monet, whose Giverny garden was only miles away from the Bonnards’ house in Normandy; and his near-contemporary Henri Matisse, who lived on the Côte d’Azur in Nice, only twenty miles away from Bonnard’s residence, Le Bosquet, in the town of Le Cannet—and who was the only one of the three to survive Bonnard. The story of these friendships will be the subject of George Shackelford’s richly illustrated talk.
Bonnard’s Worlds lectures are supported in part by the Marlene and Spencer Hays Foundation.
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