Lecture Topics
View, download and print lectures below (all in Adobe PDF format).
- Dazzling Dufy: Invitation to a luminous feast with Raoul Dufy (L&S)
- 1925 Paris Arts Décoratifs Exhibition and its Influence on Design (L&S)
- Meet Me at the Waldorf: the extraordinary story of two iconic New York hotels based on Astor feuds, fortunes and art patronage (L&S)
- The Ashcan Painters: founders of New York realism (L)
- Ashcans and Ballgowns: insights to New York's Gilded Age (L)
- Summering in Newport, Rhode Island: cottages, celebrities and suffragettes
- NEW: 'At home everywhere and nowhere' Travelling with John Singer Sargent (L&S)
- Fizz and Crackle: imagination, innovation and curiosity in the work of John Singer Sargent (L&S)
- John Singer Sargent - master of the Society Portrait
- Scandal in Paris: John Singer Sargent's Mysterious Portrait of Madame X (L)
- New York New York Study Day: by popular request, a 'time-travel‘ tour (S only)
- New York in the Gilded Age (L)
- Why Paris? the allure of the City of Light 1890-1945 (S only)
- Riviera Paradise: The fusion of art, design and pleasure on the Côte d'Azur in the 1920s and 30s (L&S)
- An Intoxicating Cocktail: Art, Design and Nightlife in 1920/30s Paris (L)
- Gainsborough in Bath: High Society and the Bath Season (L&S)
- Wigs Waistcoats and Weepers: Power Dressing in the C18 (alternative subtitle - the C18 artist, tailor and dressmaker as fashion consultant (L&S)
- Edwardian Elegance: Art, High Society and Fashion (L&S)
- David Hockney's Mr & Mrs Clark: Fashion and Lifestyle Icons of the 60s (L)
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L - Lecture only, S - Special Interest Day (study day)
L&S - Available as Lecture or Special Interest Day (study day)