George Mauner to speak at Palmer Museum
On
Tuesday, May 6, 2003, at 5:30 p.m. George Mauner, distinguished
professor emeritus of art history and fellow emeritus and
past director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanistic
Studies, will present the lecture "American Vigor in
Rodin's Paris: George Grey Barnard's The Two Natures"
in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium at the Palmer Museum of Art,
Penn State.
The
most acclaimed among the many sculptors who were deeply affected
by the work of Rodin was Bellefonte-born George Grey Barnard.
This lecture will focus on Barnard's monumental Two Natures
of Man at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Dr.
Mauner's lecture at the Palmer Museum is presented in conjunction
with the exhibition, currently on view at the Palmer, Rodin's
Obsession: The Gates of Hell, Selections from the Iris and
B. Gerald Cantor Collection, which features thirty works
in bronze related to the Rodin's most challenging and perhaps
most important commission of his career--The Gates of Hell.
Rodin's
Obsession will be on view at the Palmer Museum through
June 1, 2003. The museum, located on Curtin Road near the
University Creamery, is open Tuesday through Saturday from
10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and on Sunday from noon to 4:00 p.m.
Admission to the museum is free.
For more information, call 814-865-7672 or e-mail Robin Seymour at qzq1@psu.edu.