The Friday Evening Lecture scheduled for November 17 has been postponed. We look forward to announcing a new date for a discussion featuring painter Jenny Saville. The next scheduled Friday Evening Lecture, with George T. M. Shackelford, will be Friday, December 1, at 6 pm.
Jenny Saville, painter, London
In conversation with George T. M. Shackelford, deputy director, Kimbell Art Museum
Jenny Saville astonished audiences for the first time thirty years ago, with monumental paintings of the female nude, images of mothers and children, and compelling—and sometimes unsettling—portraits. She is profoundly interested in the physical properties of paint and in the ways in which rich color and complex light effects can bring emotional depth to her depictions of human beings, young and old, women and men. She has always had an insightful appreciation for artists of the past. With George Shackelford, the Kimbell’s deputy director, she will talk about the work of Pierre Bonnard in juxtaposition with her own.
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.
Bonnard’s Worlds lectures are supported in part by the Marlene and Spencer Hays Foundation.
To request an accessibility accommodation for a Kimbell program, please email us as far in advance as possible.
Header images: Jenny Saville, Messenger, 2020–21, acrylic and oil on canvas. 78 3/4 x 63 x 1 3/8 inches (200 x 160 x 3.5 cm) © Jenny Saville. All rights reserved, DACS 2023. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd. Courtesy Gagosian; Pierre Bonnard, Self-Portrait with Beard, c. 1920, oil on canvas. Private collection
