The Paul and Lulu Hilliard Сòòò½APP Art Museum will host renowned art historian Dr. Paul Hayes Tucker for its 2017 John Bienvenu Lecture Series on Friday.
Tucker is considered one of the worldСòòò½APP™s leading authorities on Claude Monet. He is professor emeritus at the university, where he taught for 36 years after earning a doctorate in the history of art from Yale Сòòò½APP.
Monet, founder of the French Impressionism art movement in the 1800s, is best known for his paintings. Tucker, however, will focus on a different aspect of MonetСòòò½APP™s work.
He will discuss the artistСòòò½APP™s pastel drawings at 7 p.m. on March 10 in Fletcher Hall, Room 134, on the UL Lafayette campus. By detailing MonetСòòò½APP™s work in the other medium, Tucker will provide alternate ways to interpret meaning in the French masterСòòò½APP™s art.
Parking for the event will be available at the Girard Park Circle Parking Tower or the public parking lot along St. Mary Boulevard.
The annual lecture series was established by Gloria Callais in honor of her late brother, John Bartholomew Bienvenu. Each year, the Сòòò½APP Art Museum hosts a lecture, symposium or panel discussion related to art.
Bienvenu died in 2012 at the age of 62. The Сòòò½APP alum was a psychologist who also taught courses at his alma mater, in subjects like horticulture and art.
Hilliard Сòòò½APP Art Museum features 11,000 square feet of gallery space and is the largest exhibition space between Houston and New Orleans.
It houses a collection of 18th- through 21st-century European, Asian and American art. In addition to its permanent collection, it offers changing exhibitions of regional, national and international art.
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