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6 PM Highlights Tour

7 PM Join Marshall N. Price, Nancy Hanks Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, to celebrate the opening of the exhibition he organized from the Nasher Museum’s collection. Reception with cash bar. nasher.duke.edu/disorderly

Exclusive for area teens: Tour The Medici’s Painter: Carlo Dolci and 17th-Century Florence with museum staff and make expressive drawings reacting to what you have seen in the galleries. Led by local artist Tedd Anderson.

Register online.

Want to be a Nasher Teen? The Nasher Teen Council is a group of Durham high school students who meet weekly for gallery conversations, art-making, and to connect with contemporary artists, museum professionals, and the Durham community. Apply online.

The Nasher Museum and Sarah P. Duke Gardens present a special opportunity to expand our understanding of 17th-century Florence and the inspiration Florentines took from nature. Take in a special tour of The Medici’s Painter: Carlo Dolci and 17th Century Venice, then walk to Duke Gardens to enjoy refreshments and make crowns (or wreaths or centerpieces) with botanical materials. Gardens members $40; Nasher Museum members $40; General public $50; Duke students $10. Registration required: Call 919-668-1707. This program also takes place on Saturday, Dec. 16, 2-5 PM.

Thursday, September 21, 6 PM
Learn about chiaroscuro and tenebrism with Gallery Guide Ingrid Zavala as she discusses “light and dark” in Carlo Dolci’s work. Free with a ticket to The Medici’s Painter.

Sunday, September 24, 2 PM
Why isn’t Carlo Dolci a household name? Explore this Baroque artist's notoriety with Gallery Guide Carin Walsh. Free with a ticket to The Medici’s Painter.

Monday, September 25, 7 PM
Art with the Experts! Join Assistant Curator Molly Boarati, who will give a discussion and slide lecture on The Medici’s Painter at the Durham County Library’s Stanford L. Warren Branch, 1201 Fayetteville St., Durham. (map)

Art and Conversation
Tuesday, September 26, 5-7 PM

The Levin Jewish Community Center of Durham and the Nasher Museum co-present an early evening of art, cocktails and conversation, featuring Nasher Museum Director Sarah Schroth with her talk entitled, “Ways of Seeing: Carlo Dolci.”

$35 fee includes light reception with cash bar, lecture and ticket to The Medici’s Painter.

Registration required: Call 919-354-4950, email Lana Dennis at ldennis@shalomdch.org or register online.

Dolci Gallery Talk with Ian Kennedy
Thursday, September 28, 7-9 PM

5:30 PM Cash bar

6 PM Highlights tour

7 PM Ian Kennedy, an independent scholar who lives in Chapel Hill, will give a talk entitled, “Carlo Dolci: A Walkabout and Discussion in the Galleries.” Kennedy was head of the Old Master paintings department at Christie’s New York; later he managed the New York offices of Simon Dickinson, the London-based art dealer. More recently, he was curator of European paintings at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. $5 or free with a ticket to The Medici’s Painter. Free to all members.

                       

Robert Kushner, After the Dance, 1980. Acrylic on unprimed canvas, 48 3/4 × 106 9/16 inches (123.8 × 270.7 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Gift of Carolyn McKean Grosslight, 2014.18.1. © Robert Kushner. Courtesy of DC Moore Gallery, New York. Photo by Peter Paul Geoffrion.

Ellen Lanyon, Horse and Riders (detail), 1965. Oil on canvas, 90 × 70 inches (228.6 × 177.8 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Gift of Roland Ginzel, 2014.15.2. © Estate of Ellen Lanyon. Photo by Peter Paul Geoffrion.

Carlo Dolci, The Repentent Saint Peter (detail), early 1650s. Oil on canvas, 58 x 61 1/4 inches (147 cm x 155.6 cm). The Bob Jones University Museum and Gallery, Greenville, SC.

Carlo Dolci, Vase of Tulips, Narcissi, Anemones and Buttercups with a Basin of Tulips (detail), 1662. Oil on canvas, 27 3⁄5 x 21 ¾ inches (70 x 55 cm). Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.

Nasher Museum exhibitions and programs are generously supported by the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, the late Mary D.B.T. Semans and James H. Semans, the late Frank E. Hanscom III, The Duke Endowment, the Nancy Hanks Endowment, the Courtney Shives Art Museum Fund, the James Hustead Semans Memorial Fund, the Janine and J. Tomilson Hill Family Fund, the Trent A. Carmichael Fund for Community Education, the Neely Family Fund, the E. T. Rollins, Jr. and Frances P. Rollins Fund for the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, the Marilyn M. Arthur Fund, the Sarah Schroth Fund, the George W. and Viola Mitchell Fearnside Endowment Fund, the Gibby and Michael B. Waitzkin Fund, the K. Brantley and Maxine E. Watson Endowment Fund, the Victor and Lenore Behar Endowment Fund, the Margaret Elizabeth Collett Fund, the Nasher Museum of Art General Endowment, the Friends of the Nasher Museum of Art, and the Office of the President and the Office of the Provost, Duke University.

The Collection Galleries is made possible by Nasher Annual Fund donors with special support from Anita and John Schwarz.

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