Saint Bavo, Göteborgs konstmuseum, Sweden. On view at the J. Paul Getty Museum until February 28, 2010
Lecture
Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 7:00 p.m.
J. Paul Getty Museum
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Recent analysis of Rembrandt's painted oeuvre has revealed the frequent occurrence of pairs and small groups of paintings with strong similarities but also significant differences. In the past such works were seen as steps in one artist's development. However, evidence suggests that one of these paintings is usually the prototype by the master, while the other is a free variant by a pupil. Such student works must have enabled apprentices to make steps in the learning process while at the same time producing commodities for the art market. Ernst van de Wetering, Head of the Rembrandt Research Project, discusses his ongoing research into this phenomenon of teaching and studio practice.
Course
Saturday, November 13, 2010, 2:00–5:00 p.m.
J. Paul Getty Museum
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Art historian Barbara Gaehtgens and Anne Woollett, curator of paintings, the J. Paul Getty Museum, lead a collaborative conversation on the development of Dutch history and genre painting and its influence on French painting from the late 17th through the early 19th century. Course fee $30, (includes tea).
Getty Center: Research Institute Lecture Hall
May 7, 2009–March 2011
J. Paul Getty Museum
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Portrait of a Rabbi, about 1640–45 from a New York private collection is on temporary loan to the J. Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles.
November 24, 2009–February 28, 2010
J. Paul Getty Museum
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During the 1600s, citizens of the Netherlands witnessed increasing political freedom, religious tolerance, and economic prosperity that resulted in a boom of artistic patronage and art production. Dutch artists began to portray their native land with its bustling cities, rustic countryside, and placid waterways. These landscapes were complemented by scenes of everyday life in which peasants frolicked, merchants ice skated, and cows rested in fields. This exhibition of Dutch drawings from the Getty Museum's collection traces the invention of these new genres and examines the persistence of these genres in the 18th and 19th centuries. This exhibition complements the Museum's winter premiere presentation Drawings by Rembrandt and his Pupils: Telling the Difference.
Exhibition Web page
December 4, 2009–March 22, 2010
Norton Simon Museum
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Rembrandt's prominence as a painter of portraits, particularly those of the merchants and burghers of Amsterdam, is well known. But the artist's etched prints also have a place and purpose in recording the visages of his contemporaries. A skilled, innovative printmaker, Rembrandt embraced etching as a means of expression and experimentation. Culled from the Norton Simon's extensive collection of Rembrandt prints, the 15 etchings on view illustrate the artist's keen power of observation as well as his gift for drama and humor. In addition, the exhibition addresses the function of these portrait prints, whether they were commissioned, created at the artist's initiative, or perhaps done as a meditation on the visage of a loved one.
December 5, 2009–March 7, 2010
San Diego Museum of Art
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The Dutch painter and printmaker Ferdinand Bol entered Rembrandt's workshop in the mid-1630s and worked alongside Rembrandt until 1642, when he established himself as an independent master. Bol was primarily active as a painter, but like most of the artists who spent time in Rembrandt's studio, he also worked as a printmaker and made a group of around 20 etchings. Bol's prints have been little studied, but impressions of nearly all will be included in the exhibition at SDMA, where they will be juxtaposed with examples of Rembrandt's own graphic work. The exhibition will examine the relationship between the two artists while demonstrating Bol's own particular talents as a printmaker. This exhibition brings together works from the Museum's permanent collection, a major group of loans from the collection of George C. Kenney II and Olga Kitsakos-Kenney, and additional loans from other California collections.
December 5, 2009–March 29, 2010
Huntington Art Gallery, Works on Paper Room
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During the 17th century, a period known as the Golden Age witnessed a great increase in artistic activity in the Netherlands. Over nearly a century of struggle—culminating in the Treaty of Westphalia of 1648—the Protestant Dutch in the North won their independence from Catholic Spain. As the new Dutch Republic became more prosperous, its art market grew. Also at this time, Jesuits in the southern Netherlands (or Flanders) were building churches and commissioning art in an attempt to confirm the faith of Catholics. Both situations greatly influenced the political and economic life of the region, and art flourished. This intimate installation of 15 important works on paper displays biblical, mythological, and genre subjects by such masters as Hendrick Goltzius, Rembrandt, and Peter Paul Rubens. Organized together with the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, this display is a fitting collaboration between institutions founded by Henry E. Huntington and Edwin B. Crocker—both men who helped bring the railroad to the West.
December 8, 2009–February 28, 2010
J. Paul Getty Museum
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Rembrandt was one of the greatest draftsmen of all time. Drawing played a crucial role in his busy studio and Rembrandt taught many pupils to draw in his manner. This major international loan show summarizes and makes accessible the past thirty years of groundbreaking scholarship, juxtaposing drawings by Rembrandt with those of over fourteen of his most talented students, including Ferdinand Bol, Govaert Flinck, and Gerbrand van den Eeckhout. Many of the most famous and beautiful drawings by Rembrandt and his followers will be on view in this exhibition at the Getty Center, its only venue.
Exhibition Web page
January 9–April 4, 2010
Hammer Museum
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Rembrandt was a prolific printmaker and created about 300 prints over his long career. The exhibition includes a variety of etchings with subjects ranging from religious narratives to figure studies and landscape. Drawn from the extensive collection of the Hammer's Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, as well as other institutions, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Norton Simon Museum, the exhibition also features different impressions of the same print, allowing the visitor to closely compare the compositions and see how the artist experimented with each individual impression. This exhibition is organized by Cynthia Burlingham, director, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, and deputy director of collections at the Hammer. Rembrandt Prints is made possible, in part, by the Gladys Krieble Delmas foundation.
January 22–May 2, 2010
Timken Museum of Art
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The Timken Museum of Art, which celebrates its 45th anniversary in 2010, will showcase some of Rembrandt's New Testament prints from the 1650s, a private collection of 14 landmark works owned and presented by Robert and Karen Hoehn. Rembrandt's Recession: Passion and Prints in the Dutch Golden Age, examines Rembrandt the artist's New Testament subject matter in light of his life and times. Included in the exhibition are some of the artist's most well known images, such as Christ Preaching (La Petite Tombe) of about 1652, Christ at Emmaus of 1654, and two of his greatest prints, Ecce Homo of 1655 and Three Crosses of about 1660.
May 7, 2009–March 2011
J. Paul Getty Museum
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Portrait of a Rabbi, about 1640–45 from a New York private collection is on temporary loan to the J. Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles.
June 3–February 28, 2010
J. Paul Getty Museum
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Saint Bavo, about 1662-65 from Göteborgs konstmuseum, Sweden is on temporary loan to the J. Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles.
Artist-at-Work Demonstration
Sundays, November 22, 2009–January 3, 2010, 1:00–3:00 p.m.
J. Paul Getty Museum
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Join artist Peter Zokosky as he demonstrates the historic drawing materials and techniques used by Rembrandt and other Dutch artists of the 1600s.
1:00–2:00 p.m. Dry media and 17th-century paper
2:00–3:00 p.m. Historic inks and drawing implements
Lecture
December 13, 2009, 3:00 p.m.
J. Paul Getty Museum
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Two-thirds of the drawings that were once attributed to Rembrandt have been reattributed to his many pupils. Peter Schatborn, emeritus head of the Print Room at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and co-curator of the exhibition Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils, explains how he discerns Rembrandt's drawings from those by his students.
Gallery Talk
December 16, 2009, 2:30 p.m.*
J. Paul Getty Museum
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Stephanie Schrader, associate curator of Drawings, the J. Paul Getty Museum, leads a gallery talk on the exhibition. Free; no reservations required.
*Additional talks on January 13, 2010, 2:30 p.m. and February 10, 2010, 2:30 p.m.
Spotlight Talk
January 9, 2010, 1:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.
Norton Simon Museum
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Join a Museum educator for a focused 20-minute discussion of the exhibition The Familiar Face: Portrait Prints by Rembrandt.
Tour
January 10, 2010, 3:00 p.m.
Hammer Museum
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Cynthia Burlingham, director, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, and deputy director of collections at the Hammer Museum conducts a special tour of the exhibition Rembrandt Prints.
Film
January 18, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
J. Paul Getty Museum
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Lee Hendrix, senior curator of drawings, the J. Paul Getty Museum hosts a screening of the 1985 award-winning documentary Rembrandt—Draftsman. Made for Dutch television by the director Kees van Langeraad, this film (remastered in English) examines the art of drawing in Rembrandt's studio and brings it to life in the context of Amsterdam and its environs in the 1600s. The screening accompanies the exhibition Drawings by Rembrandt and his Pupils: Telling the Difference.
Gallery Course
Friday, January 22 and 29, 2010, 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.*
J. Paul Getty Museum
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Who was Rembrandt? Join Museum educators Zhenya Gershman and Keri Jhaveri in this two-part course exploring the materials, influences, and artistic relationships that formed Rembrandt's genius. Course fee $35; $25 students. Open to 30 participants.
* This two-part course will be offered again on February 6 and 13, 2010, 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Tour
January 31, 1:00–2:00 p.m.
Norton Simon Museum
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Learn how to distinguish the unique qualities of different graphic processes by looking at prints—including etchings by Rembrandt, linocuts and aquatints by Pablo Picasso, and silkscreens by Andy Warhol.
Symposium
February 2, 2010
J. Paul Getty Museum
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A one-day symposium will be held in conjunction with the major loan show of the same name at the Getty Museum. An international panel of scholars will address the body of drawn work by Rembrandt and his pupils, the methodology of telling the difference, and the arc of scholarship in the field over the past half century. Registration required, $15 fee. Call (310)440-7300 for reservations.
Symposium Web page
Studio Course
February 4, 2010, 10:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
J. Paul Getty Museum
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Join artist Richard Houston for this daylong class exploring the work of master draftsman and storyteller Rembrandt. Drawing inspiration from Rembrandt, participants investigate gesture, mark-making, value, composition, and expression through a series of studio exercises, gallery discussions, and outdoor drawing sessions with a life model. Course fee (includes materials and box lunch) $125. Open to 25 participants.
Symposium
February 6, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
University of San Diego
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A one-day symposium will be presented by the Timken Museum of Art and hosted at the Joan B. Krok Insititute for Peace & Justice Theater at the University of San Diego. Speakers include: Dr. Stephanie S. Dickey, the Bader Chair in Northern Baroque Art, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; Dr. Martin Royalton-Kisch, Senior Curator, Department of Prints and Drawings, The British Museum, London; and Dr. Walter Liedtke, Curator of European Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Concert
February 6, 2010, 7:30 p.m.
J. Paul Getty Museum
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Hailed by the New York Times as a "graceful, energetic ensemble," Repast delves into its masterful repertoire of the Baroque era to present an evening of music from Rembrandt's Amsterdam. As a cosmopolitan port city and center for printing and publishing, this capital of the Netherlands in its golden age enjoyed a musical life that included both native productions and rich contributions from abroad. Tickets $20; $15 students/seniors.
Talk
February 11, 2010, 12:30 p.m.
Timken Museum of Art
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John Marciari, Curator of Italian and Spanish Painting at the San Diego Museum of Art, examines two concurrent exhibitions on Rembrandt: Rembrandt's Recession: Passion and Prints in the Dutch Golden Age at the Timken Museum, and From Rembrandt's Studio: The Prints of Ferdinand Bol at the San Diego Museum of Art. Meet at the Timken Museum of Art; participants will walk to the nearby San Diego Museum of Art as part of this gallery talk. Free admission to both museums; seating is limited.
Talk
February 13, 2010, 2:30 p.m.
J. Paul Getty Museum
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Artist Richard Houston explores Rembrandt's drawings and those of his contemporaries in this in-gallery discussion. Space is limited. Sign up at the Museum Information Desk beginning at 1:00 p.m. the day of the talk. February 13, 2010 at 2:30 p.m.
Lecture and Reception
February 25, 2010, 5:30–8:30 p.m.
Timken Museum of Art
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Speaker is Sir Christopher White, former director of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Lecture will be followed by a reception.
$25 Timken members/$35 non-members
Course
February 27, 2010, 10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Norton Simon Museum
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Ann Jensen Adams examines Rembrandt's contribution to the development of portraiture—of both painting and prints—in relation to the traditions he inherited, market pressures, and evolving understandings of the individual within these new political, cultural, and social structures. Rembrandt's remarkable innovations in the portrayal of himself and his contemporaries were part of the monumental changes taking place in seventeenth-century Holland, which witnessed the development of capitalism, a republican form of self-government; the so-called Scientific Revolution; and the Protestant Reformation. These changes had a profound impact upon understandings of personhood, and by extension how the individual was to be portrayed. Ann Jensen Adams is Associate Professor, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, University of California at Santa Barbara. The fee of $15 includes admission to the galleries on the day of the class. Walk-in registration begins at 10:15 a.m. For further information and registration, call (626) 844-6980.
Lecture
February 28, 2010, 3:00 p.m.
J. Paul Getty Museum
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Rembrandt and Frans Hals were the two great portrait painters in Holland in the 17th century. Christopher White, director emeritus of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, looks at the two artists’ different approaches in depicting their sitters.
Talk
March 18, 2010, 12:30 p.m.
Timken Museum of Art
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Speaker is John Wilson, Timken Executive Director. Free admission; seating is limited.
Talk
March 25, 2010, 12:30 p.m.
Timken Museum of Art
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Speaker is Victoria Sancho Lobis, Curator of the Print Collection and Fine Art Galleries, University of San Diego. Free admission; seating is limited.
*This talk will be repeated in Spanish on April 29, 2010, 12:30 p.m.
Conversation and Reception
April 15, 2010, 5:30–8:30 p.m.
Timken Museum of Art
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Speakers are John Wilson, Timken Executive Director, and Robert Hoehn, Rembrandt collector. Lecture will be followed by a reception. $25 Timken members/$35 non-members
Talk
April 17, 2010, 12:30 p.m.
Timken Museum of Art
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Speakers are John Wilson, Timken Executive Director, and Robert Hoehn, Rembrandt collector. Lecture will be followed by a reception. $25 Timken members/$35 non-members
February 1–5, 2010
Curators of Dutch and Flemish Art (CODART)
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CODART will hold their annual study trip for curators of Dutch and Flemish art in Los Angeles, California.