Harvard Club of San Diego

Night at the Museum - San Diego Museum of Art

PRIVATE TOUR of two Exhibitions. Charles Reiffel: An American Post-Impressionist and Behold, America!

The Harvard Club of San Diego Cordially Invites You to the Harvard-Yale Night at the San Diego Museum of Art

Date:  Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Time:  6pm to 8pm
Place:  The San Diego Museum of Art, Balboa Park

San Diego's Harvard and Yale alumni clubs have arranged an extraordinary evening for art lovers at the San Diego Museum of Art. Following an hors d'oeuvres reception, the Museum's two top curators will take us on an exclusive after-hours tour of the museum's most recent visiting exhibit.  This exciting opportunity is limited to only 50 people from each club, and this may be your last opportunity to sign up for the event.
RSVP required, as we cannot accept "walk in" guests on the evening of the event.

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

The San Diego Museum of Art
 1450 El Prado, San Diego 92101
 (619) 232-7931

Please purchase your tickets HERE or at the link below.  (Please note that we accept Visa, Mastercard and Discover.)

Details on the Exhibitions

Charles Reiffel: An American Post-Impressionist will propose a fresh assessment of the artist, firmly establish his place in the national canon, and shed light on this splendid page in the history of American Post-Impressionism. The exhibition will include over 80 works, primarily paintings, but also works on paper, including the crayon sketches in which Reiffel pioneered his own personal technique. This show will span the entirety of Reiffel’s career, from his early travel studies to his latest San Diego subjects, and will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the artist’s birth. While Charles Reiffel is usually considered today as a leader of the California plein-air school of painting, this exhibition celebrates his legacy as a preeminent practitioner of Post-Impressionism in America. During his lifetime, Reiffel’s work was exhibited throughout the country and won the accolades of critics, who referred to him as the “American Van Gogh”. Others judged Reiffel’s work “too modern,” favoring his more conservative contemporaries.

Behold, America! includes works from the colonial period to the present that together tell a cohesive and dynamic story of the history of art in the United States. The exhibition is a part of an innovative collaboration between three renowned museums: the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, The San Diego Museum of Art, and the Timken Museum of Art.  The exhibition will be presented as three distinct, but related shows at the three institutions. The works at the Timken Museum of Art will focus on the concept of Forms and include traditional still-lifes by Raphaelle Peale and more contemporary works by Sam Gilliam. The San Diego Museum of Art will host the Figures component of the exhibition featuring portraits by John Singleton Copley, Cindy Sherman, and John Currin. At the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego works related to the notion of Frontiers will showcase art created by Robert Irwin, Ann Hamilton, Albert Bierstadt, Asher B. Durand, and Eastman Johnson.