The Kimbell Art Museum will hold a symposium on Saturday, June 28, in conjunction with the exhibition The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago (June 29–November 2, 2008). The symposium will bring together a panel of scholars engaged in research on artists and themes represented in the exhibition.

10:15 AM–12:30 PM

  • Welcome
    Malcolm Warner, acting director, Kimbell Art Museum

  • A Touch of Color: Impressionist “Plein Air” Painting Technique and Its Legacy
    Anthea Callen, Professor of Art History, University of Nottingham, England

  • The Mind and the Eye of Impressionism: Degas and Monet
    George T. M. Shackelford, Chair, Arthur K. Solomon Curator of Modern Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

2:00–4:00 PM

  • The Impressionist Interior: Representations of Work, Leisure, and Domesticity
    Charlotte N. Eyerman, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art,
    Saint Louis Art Museum

  • Van Gogh and Gauguin: Collaboration, Conflict, and Creativity
    Douglas W. Druick, Prince Trust Curator and Chair of Prints and Drawings, Searle Curator and Chair of Medieval through Modern European Painting and Sculpture,
    The Art Institute of Chicago

Priority admission will be reserved for Kimbell members upon presentation of a current membership card at least 20 minutes before the beginning of the program. For more information please visit the Kimbell’s website. The symposium will be held at the Darnell Street Auditorium, across Arch Adams Street from the Museum.

The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago is an array of 92 masterpieces by Manet, Degas, Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, and Toulouse-Lautrec. Many are defining works of the Impressionist movement that are familiar images even to those who have never visited the Art Institute. This unprecedented loan of Chicago’s greatest treasures will be shown only at the Kimbell.