Ten Minutes with a Masterpiece
The Mead Art Museum at Amherst College presents a new series of free, lunchtime gallery talks on Tuesdays and Fridays during the spring academic term. Each "Ten Minutes with a Masterpiece" is presented by a student in the museum's volunteer docent program, and offers a fresh look at a single artwork in the collection.
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June 19th, 2008
St. Sebastian
AC 1989.2
Jan Boeckhorst, Flemish, 1605-1668
Oil on canvas
Museum purchase

June 10th, 2008
Gelede Mask and Ibeji Twins
AC 2003.99
Gelede Mask
Unknown, Yoruba
Wood, pigment, C. 1920's - 1930's
AC 2002.293.1,2
Ibeji Twins
Unknown, Yoruba
Wood, cowrie shells, fabric, pigment

June 8th, 2008
Eleanor Phipps Blackstone & Benjamin Blackstone Jr.
AC 1945.13
AC 1945.14
John Singleton Copley, American, ca. 1738-1815
Oil on canvas, 1763
Bequest of Herbert L. Pratt (Class of 1895)

June 6th, 2008
Study for "Wind from the Sea"
AC 2001.310
Andrew Newell Wyeth, American, born 1917
Watercolor on paper, ca. 1947
Gift of the artist

May 12th, 2008
Charity Enlightening the World
AC 1961.142
Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish, 1577 - 1640
Oil on panel, C. 1627-28
Museum purchase

May 11th, 2008
Anne In Black Velvet
AC P.1932.1
George Wesley Bellows, American, 1882-1925
Oil on panel, 1917
Gift of George D. Pratt (Class of 1893)

May 5th, 2008
The Fisher Girl
AC P.1933.7
Winslow Homer, American, 1836 - 1910
Oil on canvas, 1894
Gift of George D. Pratt (Class of 1893)

April 7th, 2008
In a Garden, Corfu
John Singer Sargent, American, 1856 - 1925
Oil on canvas, 1909
Private Collection

April 3rd, 2008
Work Interrupted (Le Travail Interrompu)
AC 1971.54
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, French, 1825-1905
Oil on canvas, 1891
Museum purchase

March 30th, 2008
The Triumph of Amphitrite
AC 1976.2
Hughes Taraval, French, 1729-1785
Oil on canvas, 1780
Purchased in honor of Susan Dwight Bliss

March 29th, 2008
The Massacre of the Innocents
AC 1961.82
Raphael (Follower of), Italian
Tempera on panel, Early 16th century
Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

March 28th, 2008
The Past and The Present
AC 1950.189
AC 1950.190
AC 1951.338
AC 1951.339
Thomas Cole, American, 1801-1848
Oil on canvas, 1838
Museum purchase