Works on Paper Highlights Talk: Tissot’s Etchings of Summer

Alexis Goodin, curatorial research associate, explores the summertime activities—from boating parties to lazy afternoons reading in a hammock—depicted in etchings by James Tissot. Goodin’s talk will also feature the recently acquired watercolor The Garden Studio (1886–87) by Anna Alma-Tadema, which depicts the building in which Tissot made these prints before selling the property to the Alma-Tadema family.

Visit the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper, which houses the Clark’s collection of more than 6,500 prints, drawings, and photographs. Each week, discover a unique selection of rarely exhibited works on paper with a member of the curatorial department. Offered Wednesdays from 1–1:30 pm in July and August.

Topics and presenters include:

July 13: Sculpture in Two Dimensions with Anne Leonard, Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
July 20: Renaissance Afterlives with Curatorial Intern Yuefeng Wu
July 27: Tissot’s Etchings of Summer with Curatorial Research Associate Alexis Goodin
August 3: Hogarth’s London with Curatorial Assistant Rebecca Szantyr
August 10: Caricature in Callot and Goya with Curatorial Assistant Sophie Kerwin

Free and open to the public; capacity is limited to twenty visitors on a first-come, first-served basis.

The Manton Study Center for Works on Paper is located next to the exhibition José Guadalupe Posada: Symbols, Skeletons, and Satire, in the Manton Research Center.

Image: James Jacques Joseph Tissot, The Hammock, 1880, Etching on paper. Acquired with funds donated by Jeffrey Shedd, 1978. The Clark Art Institute, 1978.3