Jehan-Georges Vibert, Figures on Rocks at the Edge of the Sea, 1867, (detail), oil on canvas
Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame : Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin
Dr. Gabriel Weisberg is a scholar of 19th century art and the author of many wonderful art books, including my personal choice for reading if I were marooned on an desert island¹, Beyond Impressionism : The Naturalist Impulse. He will be offering a lecture at The Atelier in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on October 5, 2013, from 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, to discuss the University of Notre Dame's Butkin Collection of 19th Art. Tickets are only $10 at the door. Registration is recommended; please call or mail in a letter to announce your intent to attend.
For more information, please visit The Atelierwebsite.
From the press release:
Dr. Gabriel P. Weisberg, Professor of Art History at the University of Minnesota will present an illustrated lecture on "Breaking the Mold: the Legacy of the Noah L. and Muriel S. Butkin Collection of Nineteenth Century Art." This collection, donated to the Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, provides new insights into many of the academic and realist painters of the nineteenth century in France. The Butkin's collection has become a vital teaching collection at Notre Dame since the examples that the Butkins collected are both significant and aesthetically advance the deep-rooted investigation into artists outside of the mainstream. The catalogue, for an exhibition held at the University of Notre Dame on the Butkin collection, will be available for sale at the time of the lecture.
Dr. Weisberg has published extensively on French nineteenth and early twentieth century art. A few of his books and exhibitions are Illusions of Reality: Naturalist Painting, Photography, Theatre and Cinema; The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing, 1830-1900; Beyond Impressionism: The Naturalist Impulse; Overcoming All Obstacles: The Women of the Academie Julian, co-edited with Jane Becker; Against The Modern: Dagnan-Bouveret and the Transformation of the Academic Tradition; and The Origins of Art Nouveau: The Bing Empire. Dr. Weisberg also wrote an essay for The Atelier's publication On The Training of Painters: The Atelier's Past and Present.