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Explore works of art from around the world and
throughout time with distinguished artists,
scholars, and artistic leaders. Join us for this
season of thought-provoking conversations.
For up-to-date information on these programs
and other exciting events, visit us online
at DallasMuseumofArt.org.
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Fine and Decorative Art, Friends of Modern
and Contemporary Art, and Friends of
World Art and Archaeology. Friends
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The Boshell Family Lecture Series on Archaeology The Boshell Series features internationally recognized archaeologists, historians, and authors working at the forefront of archaeological research. The series is made possible by the Boshell Family Foundation and the DMA’s Boshell Lecture Series Endowment Fund.
The Richard R. Brettell Lecture SeriesThis series brings notable scholars of 19th- and 20th-century European art to pres-ent new research and fresh interpretations of the Dallas Museum of Art’s modern masterworks. The series was created with a gift from Carolyn and Roger Horchow in honor of Dr. Richard Brettell, former DMA Director and an eminent scholar of 19th-century French art.
Exhibition Lectures
This season the Museum’s major special exhibitions will feature treasures of American art—from masterworks designed by Gustav Stickley, to iconic architec-tural designs by Frank Lloyd Wright and exquisite examples of American Indian art. See page 13 in this brochure for more information about these and other special exhibitions on view.
Late Night Lectures
Join us on the third Friday of each month, when the Museum is open until mid-night. Each Late Night offers a variety of experiences, including talks by artists, scholars, curators, and special guests.
State of the Arts
KERA host and senior producer Jeff Whittington moderates dynamic discussions with Dallas’s key artistic leaders—including visual artists, musicians, dancers, and filmmakers—to explore the creative process and the city’s cultural landscape.
Other Lecture Programs
The Museum presents a number of special lectures and stimulating conversations exploring the role of art, from antiquity to contemporary times, and its relation-ship to history, culture, and identity. Hear new and interesting perspectives from artists, art historians, curators, and other guest speakers.
Arts & Letters Live
A celebration of the literary and performing arts featuring acclaimed authors, actors, illustrators, musicians, and more. Visit DallasMuseumofArt/ALL for a complete schedule of Arts & Letters Live programs. 2
Perspectives
Michael Corris
Wednesday, February 16, 12:15 p.m.
Dallas Museum of Art curators
Jeffrey Grove and Charles Wylie join
leading artists, writers, and art histori-
ans to discuss the language, ideas, and
processes that inform contemporary art.
These conversations will take place in the
galleries to foster further reconsiderations
of the Museum’s contemporary collection,
which forms one of the cornerstones of
the Dallas Museum of Art.
Michael Corris is Chair of the Division
of Art at Southern Methodist University
(SMU) and an artist, art historian, and
writer on art. He was a member of the
pioneering conceptual art group Art and
Language and has written extensively on
contemporary art and art theory.
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Not a member? Join today at
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State of the Arts
Michael Cain and George Fenton
Wednesday, February 23, 7:30 p.m.
Join Jeff Whittington for a thought-
provoking conversation with
Michael Cain President, M3 Films
Chairman of the Board, DALLAS Film Society
George FentonGrammy, Oscar, and Emmy Award–winning composer
Masters of Film Music guest conductor, Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Presented in partnership with KERA’s Art & Seek
Brettell Lecture
The Many Faces of Renoir’s Lise TréhotFriday, February 18, 9:00 p.m.
Lise Tréhot was Pierre-Auguste
Renoir’s companion between 1866
and 1872 and one of his favorite mod-
els during that time. Distinguished
art historian John House, of London’s
Courtauld Institute of Art, will explore
Renoir’s paintings of Lise, including
two important works in the DMA’s
Wendy and Emery Reves Collection,
and the varied guises in which he
represented her, ranging from lower-
class parisienne to Oriental odalisque.
This lecture is part of Late Nights at the Dallas Museum of Art. Enjoy a
romantic evening as you explore our newly installed European galleries,
concerts, tours, films, and more.
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Perspectives
Frances Colpitt Thursday, February 24, 7:30 p.m.
Charles Wylie, The Lupe Murchison
Curator of Contemporary Art at the
Dallas Museum of Art, joins Frances
Colpitt for a conversation about is-
sues in contemporary art. Dr. Colpitt
is the Deedie Potter Rose Chair of Art
History at Texas Christian University
(TCU) and a specialist in contempo-
rary art, theory, and criticism. She
is a corresponding editor for Art in
America and has curated numerous
exhibitions at venues throughout
the country.
Exhibition Lecture
Utopian Dreams: The American Arts and Crafts Movement
Thursday, March 10, 7:30 p.m.
When the term “Arts and Crafts” was
invented in the late 19th century, it im-
plied very different things than it does
today; for some it signified a philosophy
and a way of life, while for others it
was a style. Martin Eidelberg, Profes-
sor Emeritus of Art History at Rutgers University, will explore American artists’
varied responses to the challenges and tensions of an urban, industrial society
and the demands of art at the turn of the century—from the furniture made by
Gustav Stickley, to the ceramics made at the Rookwood and Grueby potteries, to
the lamps and Favrile glass vases from Tiffany Studios.
Perspectives
Christian SchumannWednesday, March 16, 12:15 p.m. Jeffrey Grove, The Hoffman Family
Senior Curator of Contemporary Art
at the Dallas Museum of Art, joins
artist Christian Schumann for a
conversation about his work, which
incorporates text, biomorphic shapes,
and diagrams to create canvases that “rumble with the energy and look of urban
life.” A graduate of Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and
Visual Arts, Schumann is an internationally exhibited artist whose work is
held in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum
of Modern Art in New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art
in Los Angeles, in addition to the DMA and others.
“I attempt to transcribe a subconscious eye, at once political and psychological
in its subject matter.” —Christian Schumann
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Perspectives
Marianne Stockebrand
Thursday, March 17, 7:30 p.m. Charles Wylie, The Lupe Murchison Curator of
Contemporary Art at the DMA, joins Marianne
Stockebrand, Director Emerita of the Chinati
Foundation, for a discussion about the legendary
sculptor Donald Judd and his ideas of the role of
art and museums in contemporary culture.
After the discussion, Dr. Stockebrand will be available
to sign copies of her book Chinati: The Vision of Donald
Judd. This new volume, co-published by the Chinati
Foundation and Yale University Press, provides the
first comprehensive overview of Donald Judd’s unique
installations and buildings in Marfa, Texas.
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Special Event: Concentrations Artists Talk
Fergus Feehily and Matt ConnorsThursday, March 31, 7:30 p.m.
Jeffrey Grove, the DMA’s Hoffman Family
Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, joins
artists Fergus Feehily and Matt Connors
for a discussion of their work, which will be
on display in solo installations as part of the
Museum’s Concentrations series. Concentrations
focuses on the work of emerging artists, and
this installment marks the inauguration of
the series’ thirtieth year. Feehily, based in Berlin, creates paintings that explore a
long-term preoccupation with blurring boundaries, often between non-represen-
tation and image, text and drawing. Connors lives and works in New York, and he
makes small-scale abstract paintings that reference poetry, music, and film as well
as modern painting styles.
Arts & Letters Live: Artful Musings
Gail Levin and Meryle Secrest: Artistic Lives Friday, March 25, 7:30 p.m.
Art historian Gail Levin’s newest biography, Lee Krasner
(March 2011), offers a fresh look at the artist, best known
as Jackson Pollock’s wife, who was a modernist master in
her own right. Meryle Secrest is an acclaimed biogra-
pher whose newest book, Modigliani: A Life (March 2011),
uncovers the seemingly shy, delicate man behind the
romantic myth.
Before the event, join Jeffrey Grove, the DMA’s
Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art,
to explore works by Krasner and Modigliani in the
Museum’s collections.
ticket prices: Full $30
Reduced $25
Student $10
Special Event
Stickley Saturday
Saturday, April 2, 11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Half-price admission ($5) and parking ($5)
In conjunction with the Museum’s landmark
exhibition of the work of Gustav Stickley,
join us for a special celebration of the era
of the American Arts and Crafts movement.
Enjoy tours, talks, workshops, and musical
performances. From furnishings to archi-
tecture and interior design, Stickley and his
peers created works that prized craftsman-
ship and celebrated nature.
Visit DallasMuseumofArt.org for a complete
schedule of events.
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Late Night Lecture
Romancing the Bungalow: Getting to Know Your Arts and
Crafts Home
Friday, April 15, 9:00 p.m.
Kevin W. Tucker, the DMA’s Margot B. Pe-
rot Curator of Decorative Arts and Design,
will present an entertaining perspective
on the history of the bungalow and its
romantic appeal as the ideal suburban American home in the early 20th century.
To inspire the preservation and restoration of your own bungalow, investigate
classic motifs, color schemes, hardware details, and “Mission”-style furnishings.
This lecture will explore historic Dallas neighborhoods, including Oak Cliff and
Munger Place, and their significant Arts and Crafts houses.
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Special Event
A Dream of Identity: Coco Chanel and the Myths of Fashion
Thursday, April 28, 7:30 p.m.
Rhonda Garelick, Professor of English at the Uni-
versity of Nebraska and a well-known scholar and
writer on performance, literature, fashion, and cul-
tural politics, will explore Coco Chanel’s influence
on fashion as well as in literary and artistic circles
in Paris. Chanel’s Mediterranean villa, La Pausa,
also hosted many cultural luminaries, including
Salvador Dalí and Jean Cocteau. Five rooms of the
Villa La Pausa were re-created at the Dallas Mu-
seum of Art to house the Wendy and Emery Reves
Collection of impressionist, post-impressionist,
and modern European art.
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Boshell Lecture
Surveying the Silk Road: East/West Contacts Along the Route in Ancient Times
Thursday, April 21, 7:30 p.m.
Join distinguished scholar and author
Elizabeth Wayland Barber to explore the
Silk Road, the collection of trade routes
where luxurious goods, technologies, and
ideas were exchanged between East and
West. For almost three thousand years,
the Silk Road created important paths for
traders, merchants, and pilgrims between
China and India, the Persian Empire, and
Mediterranean countries.
After the lecture, visit the Level 3 galleries to see a new installation of objects
from the Silk Road in the DMA’s collections.
Exhibition Lecture
The Search for the Primitive: Native American Art and the American
Arts and Crafts Movement
Thursday, May 5, 7:30 p.m.
Dissatisfied with modern industrialized
society, many Arts and Crafts practitioners
looked to indigenous American cultures in
the search for authentic cultural expression
in the early 20th century. Monica Obniski,
Assistant Curator of American Decorative
Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago, will
explore the influence of Native American
Art, particularly baskets and textiles, on designers, artists, and architects, such
as Gustav Stickley, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and Frank Lloyd Wright, within the Arts
and Crafts movement in America.
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Arts & Letters Live: Artful Musings
Simon Schama Monday, May 2, 7:30 p.m. Simon Schama, an award-winning author, broadcaster,
critic, and academic is renowned for his intellectually
rich and entertaining studies of the influences that have
shaped the human condition. Schama’s books include
The American Future; Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and
the American Revolution; The Power of Art; Landscape and Mem-
ory; Hang-Ups: Essays on Painting (Mostly); and the History of
Britain trilogy. At this event, he will discuss his forth-
coming essay collection, Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Running
Around in History, Politics, Art, and Culture (April 2011).
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Reduced $32
Student $15
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Late Night Lecture
The History of BeadsFriday, May 20, 9:00 p.m.
Known as “the doyenne of the bead world,”
author and curator Lois Sherr Dubin will
investigate how beads have been used
throughout history and around the world as
talismans, status symbols, religious articles,
and a medium of barter. For Dubin, each bead
is a capsule of cultural information, containing
a fascinating tale of the origins of its materi-
als, its multifold uses, its travels, and
its potent symbolism.
In addition to the lecture, enjoy an entire eve-
ning of music, dance performances, tours, and
family activities that celebrate the exhibition
Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection.
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Special Event
2011 Awards to Artists Artist Talks and Reception
Thursday, May 12, 6:30 p.m.
The recipients of the 2011 DeGolyer, Kimbrough, and Dozier awards will
discuss their winning work. These annual awards recognize exceptional
talent and potential in emerging visual artists who show a commit-
ment to continuing their artistic endeavors. Since their establishment
in 1980 and 1990, Awards to Artists grants have been given to more
than 230 recipients, many of whom have gone on to successful careers
in North Texas and across the country. The three funds have given more
than $500,000 since their founding.
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Arts & Letters Live Special Event
S. C. Gwynne Tuesday, June 21, 7:30 p.m. In 1836 a nine-year-old pioneer girl, Cynthia Ann Parker,
was kidnapped during a Comanche raid in North Texas.
Parker later became a full member of the Comanches
and married a highly respected chief. Her son, Quanah,
would become the last and greatest Comanche leader.
Their story is told in Empire of the Summer Moon, which
traces the rise and fall of the Comanche Nation. Author
Sam Gwynne will discuss this fascinating story in con-
versation with Jake Silverstein, editor of Texas Monthly.
Before the event, enjoy a docent-led tour of the
exhibition Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection.
ticket prices: Full $37
Reduced $32
Student $15
Boshell Lecture
Charles C. MannFriday, July 15, 9:00 p.m.
Drawing from archaeological, anthropological,
scientific, and literary evidence, author Charles
C. Mann will reveal new visions of the Americas
before the arrival of the Europeans. His best-selling
book, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Co-
lumbus, was awarded the U.S. National Academy of
Sciences Keck Award for the best book of the year.
A three-time National Magazine Award finalist,
Mann has written for the Atlantic Monthly, Wired, the
New York Times, and Smithsonian magazine, among
many others, covering the intersection of science,
technology, and commerce.
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Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts MovementFebruary 13–May 8, 2011
Organized by the DMA, this exhibition offers the first comprehensive examination of the work of Gustav Stickley. The exhibition presents more than one hundred objects produced by Stickley’s designers and workshops, including iconic furniture, metalwork, lighting, and textiles.
Concentrations 54: Fergus Feehily and Matt Connors April 3–August 14, 2011This pairing of solo projects by Berlin-based Feehily and New York artist Connors brings together paintings that challenge traditions of abstraction and push limitations of the painterly surface. This will be the inaugural installment in the thirtieth year of the Concentrations series.
Art of the American Indians: The Thaw CollectionApril 24–September 4, 2011The DMA’s first Native American exhibition in nearly twenty years, Art of the American Indians features over one hundred works from the renowned Thaw Collection at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York. The works of art date from well before first European contact to the present and celebrate the continuing vitality of American Indian art.
Re-Seeing the ContemporaryThrough March 20, 2011
This exhibition presents more than sixty paintings, sculpture, and works on paper from the DMA’s rich collection of modern and contemporary art. Explore rarely seen works alongside more familiar icons to trace the history of contemporary art from the 1940s to today.
Encountering Space Through Fall 2012
The second exhibition to be featured in the Museum’s groundbreaking Center for Creative Connections gallery, Encountering Space presents works of art from both Western and non-Western collections at the Museum and asks visitors to consider how space is used to invite engagement, raise questions, and create meaning.
Line and Form: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Wasmuth Portfolio Through July 17, 2011
This exhibition features sixteen prints drawn from a rare example of the Wasmuth Portfolio, widely recognized as one of the most important archi-tectural publications of the 20th century. A collaboration between Frank Lloyd Wright and a German printer, the portfolio served as the first and most important publication of Wright’s innovative Prairie school creations.
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2011–2012 Exhibitions
The series is supported by the Boshell Family Foundation and the DMA’s
Boshell Lecture Series Endowment Fund.
The series is supported by The Richard R. Brettell Lecture
Series Endowment Fund.
Hotel accommodations for Lectures and Conversations provided by The Adolphus.
Promotional support for Lectures and Conversations provided by WRR Classical 101.1 FM.
Promotional support for the State of the Arts lecture series is provided by KERA’s Art & Seek.
Additional support is provided by Energy Future Holdings.
The Dallas Museum of Art is supported in part by the generosity of Museum members and donors and
by the citizens of Dallas through the City of Dallas/Office of Cultural Affairs and the Texas Commission
on the Arts.
image credits
cover (detail): A princess with her attendents, India, Late Mughal, possibly Farrukhabad, c. 1960–75,
opaque watercolor on paper, Intended gift of David T. Owsley, 7.2007.29
inside: Jasper Johns, Device, 1961–62, oil on canvas with wood and metal attachments, Dallas Museum
of Art, gift of The Art Museum League, Margaret J. and George V. Charlton, Mr. and Mrs. James B.
Francis, Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Greenlee, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. James H. W. Jacks, Mr. and Mrs. Irvin L. Levy,
Mrs. John W. O’Boyle, and Dr. Joanne Stroud in honor of Mrs. Eugene McDermott, 1976.1, © Jasper
Johns/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY; Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Lise Sewing (detail), 1866, oil on canvas,
Dallas Museum of Art, The Wendy and Emery Reves Collection, 1985.R.59; Richard Diebenkorn, Ocean
Park No. 29, 1970, oil on canvas, Dallas Museum of Art, gift of the Meadows Foundation, Incorporated,
1981.106, © Estate of Richard Diebenkorn; Table scarf, Ginkgo design, No. 915, Gustav Stickley, attributed
to Louise Shrimpton, designer, designed c. 1904, linen, Crab Tree Farm; Christian Schumann, Nomads,
1998–99, acrylic and mixed media on canvas, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas Artists Fund, 2001.11, © 1999
Christian Schumann; Donald Judd, Untitled, 1988, aluminum and yellow Plexiglas, Dallas Museum of
Art, Museum League Purchase Fund, General Acquisitions Fund, H. Harold Wineburgh Fund and gift of
an anonymous donor, 1990.137.a–f, © Donald Judd Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY; Matt
Conners, Soul Error (Vertical), 2010, oil and colored pencil on canvas, Dallas Museum of Art, DMA/amfAR
Benefit Auction Fund, 2010.30, © Matt Conners; Side Chair, Gustav Stickley, designed c. 1903–04, oak,
pewter, copper, various woods, and rush (replaced), The Estate of Dr. Edgar G. McKee; Craftsman House
No. 10 Elevations (detail), Gustav Stickley, October 1905, cyanotype on paper, The Stickley Museum
of Craftsman Farms; Buddhist jeweled plaque (detail), Nepal, 18th–19th century, turquoise, copper,
coral, and jewels, Intended gift of David T. Owsley, 7.2007.36; Coco Chanel (in front of window) in the
dining room at La Pausa, 1938; Electric Lantern No. 777, Gustav Stickley, c. 1908, copper and glass, Crab
Tree Farm; Bandolier Bag (detail), ca. 1830, Seminole Type, Florida, trade cloth, yarn, glass beads, and
cotton backing, Thaw Collection, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, N.Y., T0005, Photograph by John
Bigelow Taylor; Monroe Tsatoke, Comanche Chief, c. 1934, watercolor, Dallas Museum of Art, gift of the
Public Works of Art Project, 1934.11; Blanket (detail), ca. 1890, Osage (Wah-Zah-Zhe), Oklahoma, wool,
silk ribbon, beads, and thread, Thaw Collection, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, N.Y., T0809,
Photograph by John Bigelow Taylor; Linen chest (detail), Gustav Stickley, attributed to John Seidemann,
maker, United Crafts or Craftsman Workshops, manufacturer, Eastwood, New York, 1903, oak and iron,
Dallas Museum of Art, The Eugene and Margaret McDermott Art Fund, Inc., facilitated by American
Decorative Art 1900 Foundation, 2008.22.McD; Matt Conners, Soul Error (Vertical) (detail), 2010, oil and
colored pencil on canvas, Dallas Museum of Art, DMA/amfAR Benefit Auction Fund, 2010.30, © Matt
Conners; Horse Mask (detail), ca. 1875–1900, Nez Perce (Nimi’ipuu) or Cayuse, Idaho, Oregon, or Eastern
Washington, trade cloth, blue cloth, cotton lining and thread, glass beads, brass buttons, horsehair,
mirror, feathers, silk ribbons, hide, and ermine, Thaw Collection, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown,
N.Y., T0177, Photograph by John Bigelow Taylor; Larry Bell, The Cube of the Iceberg II, 1975, float glass
coated with Inconel, Dallas Museum of Art, anonymous gift in memory of J. O. Lambert, Jr., 1981.44,
© Larry Bell; Robert Delaunay, Eiffel Tower (detail), 1924, oil on canvas, Dallas Museum of Art, gift of the
Meadows Foundation, Incorporated, 1981.105, © L&M Services, Amsterdam; Frank Lloyd Wright, Villa für
Herrn W. H. Winslow in River Forest, Illinois, Eingangs detail (detail), Dallas Museum of Art, gift of the
Robert O. Lane Estate in memory of Roy E. Lane, A.I.A., 200.372.1.a
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