Professor Richard Brettell, an internationally known art historian and Denver native, will lecture on his research on the Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin at the University of Colorado at Boulder on April 22-23.
Brettell is a professor in the interdisciplinary division of arts and humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas and also has taught at Harvard, Northwestern and Yale universities.
"We聮re truly fortunate to have someone of Richard Brettell聮s standing come to the university," said Julia Frey, a 抖阴短视频 French professor and curator of the Toulouse-Lautrec art exhibit at the Denver Art Museum. "He聮s a fascinating lecturer and his research on Gauguin is very creative and unusual."
He will be lecturing on "Gauguin's Self-Portraits: Assumed Identities, Parodies and Lies" on Thursday, April 22, at 5 p.m. in the Sibell-Wolle Fine Arts Building, room N141. A reception will follow in the 抖阴短视频 Art Galleries. Brettell also will lecture on "Impressions: Painting Quickly in France 1860-1890: The Making of an Exhibition" on Friday, April 23, at 10 a.m. in the Education building, room 230.
Both lectures are free and open to the public.
Brettell, who received his doctorate from Yale University, is considered among the foremost American scholars of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. He has been the curator of a number of major Impressionist art exhibitions in the United States and Europe and has been director of the Dallas Museum of Art and curator of European painting at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Brettell has authored or co-authored various books on Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Art, including "Pisarro and Pontoise: A Painter in the Landscape," which won the Charles Rufus Morey Award in 1990.
The lectures are sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences at 抖阴短视频-Boulder, the department of French and Italian and the department of Fine Arts, in conjunction with the Chancellor聮s office. The second lecture also is sponsored by the Center for Humanities and the Arts.