The Burchfield Penney Art Center Book Club is open to all. Admission to the Center is free to Members.
Please join us Sundays at 3:00 on the dates listed. We begin with a brief docent led tour of the Center, followed by a discussion of the chosen book.
Please check the Museum Store for book availability at 716-878-3595. Please contact Joseph Lonzi at lonzijp@buffalostate.edu with any questions.
Out of This Century by Peggy Guggenheim
Known as 'the Mistress of modern art', Guggenheim was a passionate collector and patron. She amassed one of the most important collections of early 20th century European and American art embracing cubism, surrealism and expressionism. She bought works by, and befriended, such artists as Picasso, Duchamp, Man Ray and Dali. In 1938 she opened her first gallery of modern art in London, followed by the 'Art of this Century' gallery in New York. This is the fascinating autobiography of a society heiress who became the bohemian doyenne of the art world. Written in her own words it is the frank and outspoken story of her life and loves. Read more at www.commentarymagazine.com.
The Girl With The Gallery: Edith Gregor Halpert by Lindsay Pollock
In an era when American artists didn't count and women were expected to stay home, Edith Gregor Halpert burst onto the fledgling New York gallery scene, defying all cultural and societal rules. In 1926, Halpert, just twenty-six years old, opened one of the first art galleries in Greenwich Village and set about turning the art world upside down. Halpert cultivated the most illustrious art collectors of the day and pushed the first group of American artists working in a modern vernacular into the history books, including Stuart Davis, Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe, Ben Shahn, and Arthur Dove. Read the review in The New York Times.