Exhibition Talk & Tour: The Scandinavian Home
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Featuring stunning landscapes, portraits, furniture, and decorative arts, Scandinavian Home comprises more than 50 works from the private collection of Pennsylvania-based art collectors David and Susan Werner. The Werners’ collection includes furniture, ceramics, glass, painting, textiles, sculpture, graphics, and metalwork from eighteenth through the mid-twentieth century Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland.
Join collector Dr. David Werner to learn more about the historical context and personal reflections of the objects on view. David Werner is a retired ophthalmologist and long-time art lover. He has been a collector of Scandinavian art for more than thirty years with an emphasis on both decorative and fine art from 1880 to 1920. A resident of State College, PA, Werner currently serves on the collections committee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and as a Term Trustee of The Frick Pittsburgh. He has previously served on the board of the Carnegie Museum of Art and as president of the advisory board for the Palmer Museum of Art in State College, Pennsylvania. He is now on the collections committee for the Carnegie and the Palmer art museums.
Following Dr. Werner’s talk, walk through the exhibition with curator of the exhibition Patricia Berman. Patricia Berman is Professor of Art at Wellesley College and co-curator of the Scandinavian Home exhibition. Dr. Berman’s research focuses on turn-of-the-century European art, particularly in Scandinavian, and mid-century modern American art. She has curated numerous exhibitions, including at the Munch Museum in Oslo and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and has written books on Edvard Munch and James Ensor. Dr. Berman has a Ph.D. in art history from New York University and previously taught at the University of Oslo in Norway.
Join collector Dr. David Werner to learn more about the historical context and personal reflections of the objects on view. David Werner is a retired ophthalmologist and long-time art lover. He has been a collector of Scandinavian art for more than thirty years with an emphasis on both decorative and fine art from 1880 to 1920. A resident of State College, PA, Werner currently serves on the collections committee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and as a Term Trustee of The Frick Pittsburgh. He has previously served on the board of the Carnegie Museum of Art and as president of the advisory board for the Palmer Museum of Art in State College, Pennsylvania. He is now on the collections committee for the Carnegie and the Palmer art museums.
Following Dr. Werner’s talk, walk through the exhibition with curator of the exhibition Patricia Berman. Patricia Berman is Professor of Art at Wellesley College and co-curator of the Scandinavian Home exhibition. Dr. Berman’s research focuses on turn-of-the-century European art, particularly in Scandinavian, and mid-century modern American art. She has curated numerous exhibitions, including at the Munch Museum in Oslo and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and has written books on Edvard Munch and James Ensor. Dr. Berman has a Ph.D. in art history from New York University and previously taught at the University of Oslo in Norway.
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