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Community Speakers Program (CSP) Lectures

Library Lectures

Lectures are held at the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park and at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park. For a complete list of available CSP lectures, click here.

To schedule a lecture contact:
Kay Payne - 650-941-1374 or
Amanda Olson - 415-750-3638

 
Lectures at the de Young Museum in the Koret Auditorium - 2010
Sunday, 7/18 at 1:00 pm The Birth of Impressionism Clara Morrissey
Sunday, 7/18 at 2:15 pm Cityscapes: Contemporary Artists' View of the Urban Landscape Mina Shea
Tuesday, 8/3 at 1:00 pm The Birth of Impressionism Clara Morrissey
Tuesday, 8/3 at 2:15 pm Three French Villages, Seven French Masters Carol Nelson
Saturday, 8/7 at 1:00 pm The Birth of Impressionism Peggy Gordon
Saturday, 8/7 at 2:15 pm Cityscapes: Contemporary Artists' View of the Urban Landscape Mina Shea
Saturday, 8/21 at 1:00 pm The Birth of Impressionism Rita Dunlay
Saturday, 8/21 at 2:15 pm The Garden: An Alfresco Studio for Impressionist Painters Carol Nelson
Tuesday, 9/7 at 1:00 pm

Passing the Torch: Three Generations of African-American Women Artists

Sharon Walton
Tuesday, 9/7 at 2:15 pm Queens, Mothers, Matriarchs: The African Woman in the de Young Edith Freeman
Tuesday, 10/5 at 1:00 pm Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay Marsha Holm
Tuesday, 10/5 at 2:15 pm Painting with Sunshine: Van Gogh, Cézanne and Other Painters in Provence Kay Payne
Saturday, 10/9 at 1:00 pm

Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay

Kay Payne
Saturday, 10/9 at 2:15 pm Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay Rita Dunlay
Sunday, 10/24 at 10:00 am Queens, Mothers, Matriarchs: The African Woman in the de Young Edith Freeman
Saturday, 10/30 at 1:00 pm Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay Kate Sculti
Saturday, 10/30 at 2:15 pm Yua: Art of the Arctic Jill LeCrone
Tuesday, 11/2 at 1:00 pm

Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay

Marsha Holm
Tuesday, 11/2 at 2:15 pm Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay Ellen Harden
Sunday, 11/14 at 1:00 pm Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay Rita Dunlay
Sunday, 11/14 at 2:15 pm Passing the Torch: Three Generations of African-American Women Artists Sharon Walton
Saturday, 11/20 at 1:00 pm

Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay

Kate Sculti
Saturday, 11/20 at 2:15 pm Yua: Art of the Arctic Jill LeCrone
Tuesday, 12/7 at 1:00 pm Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay Clara Morrissey
Tuesday, 12/7 at 2:15 pm Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay Rita Dunlay
Saturday, 12/11 at 1:00 pm

Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay

Kay Payne
Saturday, 12/11 at 2:15 pm The Art and Spirit of the Crèche Kate Sculti
Sunday, 12/26 at 1:00 pm Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay Ellen Harden
Sunday, 12/26 at 2:15 pm Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay Marsha Holm
Sunday, 1/2 at 1:00 pm

Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay

Clara Morrissey
Sunday, 1/2 at 2:15 pm It’s About Time:  Another Dimension in Art Marsha Holm
Tuesday, 1/4 at 1:00 pm Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay Kate Sculti
Tuesday, 1/4 at 2:15 pm Painting with Sunshine:  Van Gogh, Matisse and Other Painters in Provence Kay Payne
Sunday, 1/23 at 1:00 pm Art with an Attitude: Contemporary California Prints and Drawings Marsha Holm
Sunday, 1/23 at 2:15 pm California Creativity:  Innovative Bay Area Painters Kay Payne
Lectures at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in the Florence Gould Theater - 2009 - 2010
Sunday, 7/18 at 1:00 pm One Hundred Years of Landscape Art in Northern California Ellen Harden
Sunday, 7/18 at 1:00 pm Ansel Adams and the American Wilderness Kay Payne
Saturday, 7/24 at 1:00 pm The Impressionist Era: Fashion and Culture Ellen Harden
Saturday, 7/24 at 2:15 pm The Art of French Fashion: From the "New Look" to Now Julia Geist
Sunday, 7/25 at 1:00 pm Pleasures of the Palate: A Celebration of Food Kay Payne
Sunday, 7/25 at 1:00 pm European Paintings: A Dime-Store Legacy from the Kress Collection Gretchen Turner
Tuesday, 8/3 at 1:00 pm California Palace of the Legion of Honor: The Rest of the Story Marsha Holm
Tuesday, 8/3 at 2:15 pm Faberge: Treasures to Behold Ellen Harden
Sunday, 8/15 at 1:00 pm Art Deco 1910 - 1939 Julia Geist
Sunday, 8/15 at 1:00 pm Please Be Seated: American Chairs and American Sitters, 1670-1994 Dorothy Ann Nelson
Sunday, 8/29 at 1:00 pm American Artists Abroad: The Lure of Paris in the 19th and 20th Centuries Kay Payne
Sunday, 8/29 at 1:00 pm Three French Villages, Seven French Masters Carol Nelson
Saturday, 9/4 at 1:00 pm

Impressionist Paris: City of Light

Jim Kohn
Saturday, 9/4 at 2:15 pm Degas, the Reluctant Impressionist Rita Dunlay
Tuesday, 9/7 at 1:00 pm

California Palace of the Legion of Honor: The Rest of the Story

Marsha Holm
Tuesday, 9/7 at 2:15 pm

The Garden: An Alfresco Studio for Impressionist Painters

Carol Nelson
Sunday, 9/12 at 1:00 pm

Impressionist Paris: City of Light

Jim Kohn
Sunday, 9/12 at 2:15 pm A Brush with Fame: Claude Monet and His Art Marsha Holm
Sunday, 10/3 at 1:00 pm Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay Kay Payne
Sunday, 10/3 at 2:15 pm From Paper to Canvas: Connections between Achenbach Masterpieces and Fine Arts Museums Paintings Jim Kohn
Tuesday, 10/5 at 1:00 pm

Degas, the Reluctant Impressionist

Rita Dunlay
Tuesday, 10/5 at 2:15 pm

Three French Villages, Seven French Masters

Carol Nelson
Tuesday, 11/2 at 1:00 pm

A Paper Treasure Trove: The Achenbach Collection

Peggy Gordon
Tuesday, 11/2 at 2:15 pm

How Masterpieces Are Made

Gretchen Turner
Sunday, 11/21 at 1:00 pm

How Masterpieces Are Made

Gretchen Turner
Sunday, 11/21 at 2:15 pm 35 Years of Crown Point Press Peggy Gordon
Saturday, 11/27 at 1:00 pm Japanesque: The Japanese Print in the Era of Impressionism Doris Chun
Saturday, 11/27 at 2:15 pm Just Desserts: Sugar to Spice, Cheese to Chocolate Marsha Holm
Tuesday, 12/7 at 1:00 pm

Drama at the Legion of Honor

Mina Shea
Tuesday, 12/7 at 2:15 pm

Japanesque: The Japanese Print in the Era of Impressionism

Julia Geist
Sunday, 12/12 at 1:00 pm

Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay

Ellen Harden
Sunday, 12/12 at 2:15 pm Japanesque: The Japanese Print in the Era of Impressionism Doris Chun
Saturday, 12/18 at 1:00 pm The Art and Spirit of the Crèche  Kate Sculti
Saturday, 12/18 at 2:15 pm Drama at the Legion Mina Shea
Tuesday, 1/4 at 1:00 pm

Japanesque: The Japanese Print in the Era of Impressionism

Julia Geist
Tuesday, 1/4 at 2:15 pm The Impressionist Era:  Fashion and Culture Ellen Harden
Saturday, 1/8 at 1:00 pm

Japanesque: The Japanese Print in the Era of Impressionism

Doris Chun
Saturday, 1/8 at 2:15 pm History in a Teacup:  Traveling with Porcelains from China to California Peggy Gordon
Sunday, 1/23 at 1:00 pm

There’s No Business Like Show Business

Belinda Marshall
Sunday, 1/23 at 2:15 pm Raising Spirits:  Art and Wine in the  Modern Western World Kristen Shilakes

Updated on: July 15, 2010