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Ladd Lecture Series
Thursday, September 22, 2016
George Shackelford, Deputy Director, Kimbell Art Museum

Becoming Monet
George Shackelford, deputy director of the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, has written extensively about the art of Degas, Gauguin, van Gogh, and Monet.  Becoming Monet will preview the exhibition he has organized for the Kimbell, Monet: The Early Years, which surveys the artist’s career from his first exhibition in 1858 to the flowering of Impressionism in 1872.  The exhibition will feature loans from museums and private collections in Europe, Asia, and the United States, some reunited for the first time since they left Monet’s studio more than a century ago.

History of the Ladd Lecture
The Ladd Lecture is an ongoing series of lectures by distinguished experts from across the United States. The series, sponsored by the Frank Ladd Family, is dedicated to a greater understanding and enjoyment of the visual arts. Recent guests have been Andrew Scott DeJesse, a Modern Day Monuments Man; Jock Reynolds, the Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale University Art Gallery; Eric Lee, Director, Kimbell Museum of Art; Pratapaditya Pal, internationally renowned Nepalese, Indian and Tibetan art scholar; Richard Bretell, The Margaret McDermott Distinguished Chair, Art and Aesthetics, UT Dallas; John Walsh, former director, J Paul Getty Museum; Edmund P. "Ted" Pillsbury, former director, Kimbell Art Museum.

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