Harvard Club of Chicago

Tour of Drawings & Sculpture in the David and Celia Hilliard Collection, Jan 9

SOLD OUT
DATE: Thursday, January 9, 2014
TIMES: 5:00-6:00 pm Cocktails at The Cliff Dwellers
200 S. Michigan
6:15 Tour at The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S. Michigan, Chicago

THIS EVENT IS SOLD-OUT. 

Please call the HCC office if you'd like to be placed on a waiting list: 1-847-256-1211

Tour will be led by Suzanne Folds McCullagh, AM'74, PhD'81, curator of the exhibit, Art Institute of Chicago

The Department of Prints and Drawings houses a distinguished collection of works on paper ranging in date from the 15th century to the present. With holdings of 11,500 drawings and 60,000 prints, the collection includes particular strengths in French 19th-century prints and drawings; British, French, and Italian drawings; Old Master prints; extensive 20th-century holdings; and a constantly growing collection of contemporary works on paper. Because works of art on paper are sensitive to light, they are exhibited on a rotating basis.

Suzanne Folds McCullagh, AM '74, PhD '81, is the Anne Vogt Fuller and Marion Titus Searle Chair and Curator of Prints and Drawings.  Suzanne began her career at the Art Institute in 1975 as a curatorial assistant while completing her PhD from Harvard and after serving as the curatorial assistant in charge of prints at the Fogg Art Museum.
She directed and co-authored the first comprehensive scholarly catalogue of the museum’s Italian drawings in 1997, Italian Drawings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago.
In her decades at the museum, she has acquired some of the most significant works of art held by the Department of Prints and Drawings, particularly in the area of French and Italian drawings and pastels, including sheets by François Boucher and Maurice Quentin de La Tour and prints and copper plates by Rembrandt. She has also curated dozens of exhibitions—notably Rembrandt’s Journey and a companion show in 2004—and published prolifically on subjects ranging from Rembrandt to Gabriel de Saint-Aubin and from Marc Chagall to Chardin.
A leading expert in the field of Old Master works on paper, she has been the curator of Drawn to Drawings: The Goldman Collection and Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art; Capturing the Sublime: Italian Drawings of the Renaissance and Baroque.

As a prelude to the tour, join fellow Harvard alums for drinks at the Cliff Dwellers and stroll the Club’s exquisite open terrace with one of the most spectacular views in our City.

Please make your reservations early as the Club’s previous Art Institute tours have been a sell-out!

Reservations will be held at the door

Date: Thursday, January 9, 2014

Time: 5:00-6:00 pm Drinks (cash bar)
           The Cliff Dwellers, 200 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago

          6:15 pm (sharp) Tour
           The Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago