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Talk on Victorian art exhibit at Delaware Art Museum
The lecture is free with museum admission. The presentation will be in conjunction with the exhibition "Charles Shannon: Lithographs and Luminaries" at the Delaware Art Museum, on view through July 9. All items in the Shannon exhibition were drawn from the Samuels Lasner collection at UD's Morris Library.
Shannon, a painter, printmaker and collector, was an active participant in and keen observer of London in the late 19th Century. He used the artists and literary figures of the day as the subjects of many of his works, and one section of the exhibition is devoted to them including portraits of Oscar Wilde, Alphonse Legros, Max Beerbohm and Lucien Pissarro. The remainder of the display will spotlight Shannon's lithographs focusing on the female form and examples of the artist's book illustrations and designs. The Mark Samuels Lasner Collection is associated with the Special Collections Department of the University of Delaware Library, but is privately owned. Housed in the Morris Library, the collection, focuses on British literature and art from 1850-1900, with an emphasis on the Pre-Raphaelites and on the writers and illustrators of the 1890s. Its holdings comprise 2,500 first and other editions (including many signed and association copies), manuscripts, letters, works on paper and ephemera. For more information, call (302) 571-9590 or visit [www.delart.org]. |
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