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Image: Alfred Jensen, Twelve Events in a Dual Universe, 1978, Gift of the Collectors Committee, 2007.35.1Image: Edward Hopper, East Side Interior, 1922, Rosenwald Collection, 1949.5.71Image: Joseph Mallord William Turner, Mortlake Terrace, 1827, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1937.1.109Image: Rogier van der Weyden, Portrait of a Lady, c. 1460, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1937.1.44
Focus: Exhibitions | Focus: the Collection | Conversations with Curators and Educators | Adult Programs Workshop | Twelve at Twelve | Food for Thought
Focus: Exhibitions
Civic Pride: Group Portraits from Amsterdam
Eric Denker
May 2, 3, 9, 15, 25 at 12:00PM
(20 minutes)
Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape
Diane Arkin, Adam Davies, David Gariff, or Sally Shelburne
May 11, 18, 23, 25, 29, 30 at 1:00PM
May 12, 13 at 12:00PM
May 14–16, 21, 24 at 11:00AM
May 22, 31 at 2:00PM
June 6, 12, 26 at 2:00PM
(60 minutes)
Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape (in Spanish)
Felix Monguilot Benzal
May 11, 18, 25 at 2:00PM
June 4, 8, 15, 22, 29 at 2:00PM
(60 minutes)
I Spy: Photography and the Theater of the Street, 1938–2010
Adam Davies
May 17–20, 23, 24 at 12:00PM
June 14, 15, 20–22 at 12:00PM
(60 minutes)
Deacon Peckham's "Hobby Horse"
Wilford W. Scott
June 5–7 at 11:00AM
(30 minutes)
The Baroque Genius of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
Eric Denker
June 19, 26, 29, 30 at 12:00PM
(60 minutes)
George Bellows
Eric Denker
June 20–22, 27, 28, 30 at 2:00PM
(60 minutes)
Focus: The Collection
Fate of the Figure in Modern Art, Part II
Sally Shelburne
May 1, 10, 16 at 12:00PM
June 27 at 12:00PM
(50 minutes)
Renoir in Paris
Eric Denker
May 2, 3, 9, 15, 25 at 11:00AM
(30 minutes)
Rethinking Monet
Sally Shelburne
May 2, 8, 17 at 1:00PM
(50 minutes)
"Flowers in a Rococo Vase" by Paul Cézanne
Alexandra Morrison
May 7, 9, 10 at 1:00PM
(20 minutes)
Duccio in the National Gallery of Art
Diana Mellon
May 14, 16, 17 at 2:00PM
(30 minutes)
El Greco in the National Gallery of Art
Giselle Larroque Obermeier
May 20, 24, 31 at 1:00PM
(40 minutes)
Picture This: Old Master Paintings for People with Visual Impairments
Education staff
May 23 at 1:00PM
June 27 at 1:00PM
(50 minutes)

Access to Low Vision

Hendrick ter Bruggen's "Bagpipe Player"
Jennifer Riddell
May 23 at 2:00PM
June 1, 2 at 2:00PM
(20 minutes)
Anne Truitt and Her Contemporaries
Sally Shelburne
June 5, 7, 13, 28 at 1:00PM
(50 minutes)
Post-Impressionism
David Gariff
June 12, 14, 19, 21, 26, 27, 29 at 1:00PM
(60 minutes)
Conversations with Curators and Educators
The French Nineteenth-Century Galleries
Mary Morton and Diane Arkin
May 7, 9, 10 at 2:00PM
(50 minutes)
Twelve at Twelve

Everything you absolutely must know about this painting in 12 minutes or less!

"Bitumen" by Terry Winters
Heidi Hinish
June 1, 6, 8 at 12:00PM
(12 minutes)
Food for Thought

Participate in a seminar-style luncheon discussion of art history and related readings followed by a gallery tour of relevant art. Participants may bring their own lunch or purchase it prior to class in the Cascade Café.

Preregistration is required and limited to 25 participants per session.

Food for Thought registration form
 

John Sloan's "Gist of Art"
Diane Arkin
May 8, 22 from 12:00PM to 2:00PM