Date/Time
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location
Lyman Allyn Museum
Categories
Members:$5 / Non-members: $10A presentation by Barbara Zabel
Professor Emeritus, Connecticut College
Jan Beekman’s paintings evoke a sense of the Sublime—or awe—as viewers come face to face with renderings of the intricate textures of lichen and the graceful shapes of windblown branches, among other natural phenomena. This lecture will place Beekman’s paintings in the long tradition of the Sublime in American landscape painting—not the “operatic” Sublime evoked by vast expanses of nature, but an “intimate” Sublime evoked by equally awe-inspiring close-up examinations of nature, a sensibility also found in artists of the Hudson River School.
Reception 5:00 pm
Presentation 6:00 pm
*No charge for docents