Lyme Academy Brings Metropolitan Museum of Art Curators to Old Lyme

OLD LYME, CT – The Lyme Academy of Fine Arts will host two events by curators from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

At 5 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 27, the Academy will present “An Introduction to Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck,” a guest lecture and book signing with Dita Amory, Robert Lehman Curator in Charge at the Met. Tickets are $30 for the lecture, or $65 for the lecture and book.

This lecture introduces the Finnish artist Helene Schjerfbeck (1862-1946), renowned throughout Finland but little known in the U.S. The Met is the first major U.S. museum to present her work.

At 5 p.m. on Saturday, March 7, the Met’s Eugene V. Thaw Curator of European Art, Asher Miller, will present “Portrait, Likeness, Type: Jean-Léon Gérôme’s Bashi-Bazouk.” The special guest lecture will be followed by a brief conversation with Lyme Academy principal art historian Emily M. Weeks Ph.D. and a preview of Lyme Academy’s forthcoming exhibition, The New Bronze Age: Masterpieces of 19th- and Early 20th-Century Sculpture from the Karlheinz Kronberger Collection.

A reception with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres will conclude the evening. Tickets for the exhibition preview event with guest lecture and reception are available for $100 per guest. Proceeds support Lyme Academy’s Chauncey-Stillman Exhibition Program and future exhibitions.

Tickets and information about the guest lecturers are available at lymeacademy.edu.