The Traveling Lecture Series, offered in conjunction with ongoing exhibitions, brings museum staff members out to your institution to give a talk about an artist or art movement important to our mission. We’ll bring a powerpoint presentation, information about PAFA programs, and our expertise in the field, and all we ask is that you bring an audience for us to share with.
This spring, staff visits community groups to discuss
George Tooker: A Retrospective, an exhibition on view from January 31
st – April 5
th, 2009, and the first retrospective of this renowned artist’s work in over three decades. Tooker’s luminous narrative paintings helped maintain and expand the figurative tradition in postwar American art and his earliest “protest paintings” established Tooker’s reputation as a socially conscious artist in tune with the anxious climate of the Cold War in the 1950s. As a result, he remains one of the few “realist” painters of the 1950s who is regularly integrated into period accounts of modernism alongside his Abstract Expressionist contemporaries.
If you think your organization would be interested in hosting a free talk in January, February, or March of 2009, or you are interested in finding out about upcoming traveling series, please call 215-972-2069 or email
tours@pafa.org, for more information.