Learn about works of art from Benton Docents.
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
12:15pm – 1:00pm
Engage directly with works of art. Talks focus on a specific highlighted work from our collection. Great lunchtime diversion! Bring your friends or co-workers. Wednesday’s talk with Judy McChesney.
Focus: An oil on canvas “Low Tide”, c1898, by Ernest Lawson, from the Benton’s Louise Crombie Beach Memorial collection and currently on view in the Gilman Gallery.
Ernest Lawson (March 22, 1873 – December 18, 1939) was a Canadian-American painter and a member of The Eight, a group of artists who formed a loose association in 1908 to protest the narrowness of taste and restrictive exhibition policies of the conservative, powerful National Academy of Design. Though Lawson was primarily a landscape painter, he also painted a small number of realistic urban scenes. His painting style is heavily influenced by the art of John Henry Twachtman, J. Alden Weir, and Alfred Sisley. Though considered an American Impressionist, Lawson falls stylistically between Impressionism and realism.
Meet at the museum's Visitor Services Desk.
THE WILLIAM BENTON MUSEUM OF ART
University of Connecticut
School of Fine Arts
245 Glenbrook Road
Storrs, CT
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