Salon Series

The Museum will present several programs in conjunction with this exhibition. All events are free and open to the public.

Vive La France – Exploring French Culture and Tradition
Thursday, September 27, 2007 from 6-7:30pm

Laetitia March-Nulton, Regional Sales Manager with Calvet Wine, will present an informal discussion on French culture, touching on some of the cultural differences between France & the United States. Complete your evening with dinner at SAM’s cultural partner, BRICCO. BRICCO Restaurant will feature French-themed specials on their dinner menu (dining reservations are
encouraged and may be made by calling 717-724-0222). This is a collaborative program offered through SAM and International House.

Passport to Impressionism
Thursday, October 18, 2007 from 6-7:30pm

“Seriously, you must not miss this,” Mary Cassatt wrote to Berthe Morisot after seeing an exhibit of Ukiyo-e prints at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. ‘You who want to make color prints, you could not dream of anything more beautiful….” Mary Cassatt was not the only artist to be impressed by Japanese Ukiyo-e prints. Many of the artists included in SAM’s fall exhibition Passport to Paris may have been influenced by the Japanese printmakers. This slide/lecture by Selby M. Doughty includes such masters of French Impressionism as, Mary Cassatt, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Claude Monet, and James McNeil Whistler and discusses how their work was influenced by the Japanese printmakers.

Paris by the Book: A discussion of Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland
Thursday, November 1, 2007 from 6:30-8pm

Luncheon of the Boating Party, the novel and the painting, depicts the summer of 1880, an exuberant postwar time when social constraints were loosening, Paris was healing, and Parisians were bursting with a desire for pleasure. The fourteen people on the terrace overlooking the Seine enjoying this moment of la vie moderne are Renoir's very real friends, whose lives unfold and connect during the course of the making of the painting. Join MaryAnne Cline, Operations Training Specialist with Country Meadows, as we discuss Vreeland’s latest novel and gain a cultural and historical perspective on Parisian life in the 19th century.