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by Victoria Wyeth
Friday, March 26, 2010
7pm
Free
Members of the Fort Wayne Museum of Art are cordially invited to a special lecture by Victoria Wyeth, granddaughter of Andrew Wyeth, featuring little known facts and photos from America's first family of art!
Victoria Browning Wyeth was born on March 21, 1979 to Nicholas Wyeth and Jane Wyeth. She is the niece of Jamie Wyeth, sole grandchild of Andrew Wyeth, and great-granddaughter of N.C. Wyeth.
After attending The Nightingale-Bamford School in New York City, Ms. Wyeth attended Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. There, she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in American Cultural Studies, and completed an undergraduate thesis focusing on the effects of poverty on children’s behavior in school. While completing her studies at Bates College, Ms. Wyeth organized and curated Her Room, an exhibition of Andrew Wyeth’s works, for The Bates College Museum of Art.
Ms. Wyeth attended Harvard University as a visiting graduate student and earned a Master of Arts degree in Psychology from Wesleyan University upon acceptance of her Masters thesis entitled, A Nosography of Delusions in 19th Century Connecticut.
Ms. Wyeth guides public tours of works by N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth and Jamie Wyeth at the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.
5:30pm Lecture by Michael Komanecky, Farnsworth Art Museum Curator
Silver (donors over $250) FWMoA members and above will be treated to a special presentation by Mr. Komanecky prior to the opening of the Wyeth: An American Legacy, Treasures from the Farnsworth Art Museum.
Michael K. Komanecky is a specialist in American and European art with a distinguished record of exhibitions, publications, and service to the profession. A graduate of the State University of New York and with an M.A. degree in art history from Brown University, Mr. Komanecky has held curatorial positions at the Museum of Art of the Rhode Island School of Design, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and Phoenix Art Museum, among others. Mr. Komanecky has curated many notable exhibitions. Most recently, he was the curator for Jamie Wyeth: Seven Deadly Sins and Robert Indiana and the Star of Hope (Farnsworth Art Museum).
A graduate of the Museum Management Institute, Mr. Komanecky has served on several panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Arizona Arts Council, and has been a reviewer for the Museum Assessment Program of the NEA. A New York State Regents Scholar and a University Fellow at Brown University, he was a fellow of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (German Academic Exchange Service). In 2006 he was a Senior Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and in 2008 was a fellow at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California.
With his wife the painter and sculptor Rosi Reed, he lives in Rockland, Maine.
Please RSVP to Brian at 260.422.6467 or email wagner@fwmoa.org prior to March 19