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Pissarro: Creating the Impressionist Landscape

July 2007

 

Milwaukee Art Museum
the host institution

 

the Quadracci Pavilion addition

Photos of Quadracci Pavilion

 

we met in the Lubar Auditorium

 

Welcome by Barbara Brown Lee, Chief Educator

 

guided tour of the Museum's 19th Century European collection

Photos of the Collection

 

time to visit the Museum Shop

 

 

lunch at the Museum Cafe

 

talk on Pissarro by Laurie Winters,
Curator of Earlier European Art
and Coordinating Curator of exhibition

 

the exhibit

 

Laurie shows and explains paintings from the exhibit

Photos from the Pissarro Exhibition

 

Mary Weaver Chapin, Assistant Curator of Prints & Drawings
talks about frames for the famous paintings

 

Mark Dombek, Conservation Framer
tells about this frame

 

Mark shows an elaborate frame

 

and tells how the frame maker prepared it

 

Mark tells of the use of gold leaf in making frames

 

Mary shows an elegant gold leaf frame

Time available to see the Museum's Collection


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