Degas Lecture with Carol Armstrong

The Newcomb Art Department, Newcomb Art Gallery and Newcomb College Institute present:

"Degas: Between Touch and Sight"

a lecture by Carol Armstrong

Wednesday, April 22, 6:00pm

Freeman Audotrium, 205 Woldenberg Art Center

The Status of the Copy and Posthumous Work in the Museum

In conjunction with their current exhibition Degas: The Private Impressionist, the Newcomb Art Gallery presents a panel discussion

"The Status of the Copy and Posthumous Work in the Museum"

with Stephanie Porras, Assistant Professor of Art History, Tulane; Michael Kuczynski, Associate Professor of English, Tulane; and

Russell Lord, Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, New Orleans Museum of Art.

Wednesday, March 18, 6:00 pm

Freeman Auditorium

205 Woldenberg Art Center 

Aficionado

[photo by Ryan Rivet, Tulane New Wave, March 2, 2015]

Coco Zhang, a sophomore at Tulane University majoring in art history, takes time between classes to view the Newcomb Art Gallery exhibit featuring the work of Edgar Degas.

The exhibition, “Edgar Degas: The Private Impressionist,” runs until May 24 and features drawings, prints and photographs by and relating to Degas. 

The show also features works by friends and contemporaries of the artist, including Mary Cassatt, Paul Cézanne, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Gustave Moreau, Alfred Stevens and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.