OLLI Spring 2016          American Impressionist: Childe Hassam

  Claude Monet, The Cliff, Étretat, Sunset, 1882–83,  
​  oil on canvas, North Carolina Museum of Art
  Child Hassam (1859-1935) Isles Of Shoals, Broad  
​  Cove, 1911, oil on canvas, ​Honolulu Museum of Art
                  Paintings by Childe Hassam
This spring we will explore the special exhibition, American Impressionism: Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals, coming to the North Carolina Museum of Art (March 19-June 19, 2016). In this course we will take a close look at American Impressionism as it compares to French Impressionism and, specifically, the work of Childe Hassam.

North Carolina Museum of Art Lectures:  Wednesdays    11:00-12:30 alternate with:
                                       Gallery Sessions: session 1  Wednesdays   10:30-11:30
                                                                      session 2  Wednesdays    12:00-1:00
                                                                      session 3  Thursdays        10:30-11:30
                                                                      session 4  Thursdays        12:00-1:00
                                                                     (session 5 in the catalogue is lecture ONLY)

                            SCHEDULE:

​April 20               lecture:         Monet & American Impressionism
April 27 & 28      galleries: Monet & American Impressionism: the NCMA
May  4                 lecture:        Childe Hassam
May 11 & 12       galleries: American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals