|
 |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 8, 2008 |
FOR INFORMATION CONTACT
Elizabeth Pittman 404.364.8868
epittman@oglethorpe.edu |
Widow on Brittany Coast Lecture at Oglethorpe University
ATLANTA – Oglethorpe University Museum of Art presents a lecture on the printmaking of Charles Cottet on February 20 at 8:00 p.m. and February 21 at 10:00 a.m. Cottet’s work is featured in the museum’s current exhibition, Before and After Gauguin: The Art of Printmaking in Brittany 1740 to 1940.
Charles Cottet: Grief and Celebration on the Brittany Coast will be presented by Maura Coughlin, assistant professor of visual studies at Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island. French painter and printmaker Charles Cottet made his reputation in the salons of Paris with images of pious and mourning peasant women from coastal Brittany. Coughlin’s lecture will discuss the four Charles Cottet prints in the museum’s current exhibition. Free and open to the public. For more information please call 404.364.8555.
Before and After Gauguin: The Art of Printmaking in Brittany 1740 to 1940 includes 100 prints from private French collections and, the first print made in Brittany, France. The exhibition demonstrates how the renowned French artist Paul Gauguin influenced and changed the direction of the great printmaking tradition in Brittany. The Oglethorpe University Museum of Art is open Tuesday through Sunday from noon until 5:00 p.m. Free and ample parking is available. Admission is $10 per person; $5 for senior citizens and students; free for museum members, children under 12 and the Oglethorpe community. For more information please visit www.oglethorpe.edu (keyword: museum).
|
