The Yale Club of San Diego  

Cordially Invites You

to the

Yale-Harvard Night at the San Diego Museum of Art  

Thursday, September 22, 2011

San Diego’s Yale and Harvard alumni clubs have arranged another extraordinary evening for art lovers at the San Diego Museum of Art. Following an hors d’oeuvres reception, the Museum’s two top curators – both Yale graduates – will take us on an exclusive after-hours tour of the museum’s most recent visiting exhibit: From El Greco to Dalí: Great Spanish Masters from the Pérez Simón Collection. The San Diego Museum of Art is proud to be the only U.S. museum to show this collection. This spectacular survey of Spanish art from the 16th century to the 1970s will feature 64 works drawn from one of the world’s finest private collections.

Our Guides: the husband and wife team of Dr. Julia Marciari Alexander and Dr. John Marciari , both Yale graduates and renowned experts in their fields, will help us explore these wonderful works of art.

From the golden age of Charles V and on through the modern period, this exhibition showcases such acclaimed masters of the Spanish school as El Greco, Ribera, Murillo, Goya, Sorolla, Picasso, Dalí and Miró. Spanning five centuries, this selection of works by some of the world’s most celebrated artists illustrates a splendid chapter in the history of Spanish art. Visitors to the exhibition will also be invited to discover dazzling artists little-known in the U.S., such as the Romantic Manuel Barrón y Carrillo, or the Modernist Romero de Torres. This exhibition proposes new perspectives on the story of Spanish art, considered both thematically and historically. An outstanding selection of old master paintings will underscore the importance of religious piety and royal patronage from the 16th to the 18th century, including Jusepe de Ribera’s sensational Saint Jerome, Bartolomé Murillo’s sublime Immaculate Conception, and Francisco de Goya’s masterful Doña María Teresa de Vallabriga y Rozas. The struggle between tradition and modernity will be considered from the late-18th to the 20th century, featuring six works by Salvador Dalí, among them his monumental Ascension of Christ, and the diptych Gala’s Christ, painted for his wife and muse in 1978. Monuments of painting, the masterpieces assembled for this exhibition are also a testament to a preeminent collector’s enduring passion.

Hors d'Oeuvres reception at 6:00 pm
followed by a private tour until 8:00 pm

at

The San Diego Museum of Art
1450 El Prado, San Diego 92101
(619) 232-7931
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$50 for members (and spouses)
$60 for non-members

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