Events for November 12, 2009
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Nov. 12 (Thurs.)
2:30 p.m. Free
Why do leaves change color in fall? Jim Folsom, director of the botanical gardens explores the hows, whys and whats of fall color in this lively presentation. Friends Hall
Nov. 12 (Thursday)
7:30 p.m. Free
Scholar Renita Lorden, who is writing a biography of Clarence Muse, will discuss how this multi-talented actor, writer, and film director brought the Harlem Renaissance to Central Avenue and used it to ignite Hollywood’s golden age. Free. No reservations required. Friends’ Hall
Drawn to Satire: John Sloan’s Illustrations for the Novels of Charles Paul de Kock
Oct. 24, 2009–March 29, 2010
Scott Galleries, Chandler Wing
From 1903 to 1905, American artist John Sloan created 53 etchings to illustrate comic novels by French author Charles Paul de Kock. The books—satires of French society in the first half of the 19th century, full of slapstick violence—were a perfect subject for Sloan’s lively etching style of short, expressive lines and loose cross-hatching. More...