Tuesday Jan 19, 2016
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM EST
January 19th, 2016
Begins at 12:30pm
Clark Center at the Clark Art Institute
225 South Street, Williamstown, MA
Looking at Lunchtime talks are free with paid admission
The Clark Art Institute welcomes the public to join Curatorial Research Associate Alexis Goodin for a half-hour “Looking at Lunchtime” gallery talk on Tuesday, January 19 at 12:30 pm in Clark Center special exhibition galleries. Goodin will discuss Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s Model D Pianoforte and Pair of Stools, which is currently on view as part of the exhibition An Eye for Excellence: Twenty Years of Collecting.
When the elaborate case of this Steinway piano was displayed in London in 1885, the press called it “splendid,” “remarkable,” and “superb.” Alma-Tadema designed it as the centerpiece of a music room in the Manhattan mansion of financier Henry Marquand. With its lavish materials and decorative flourishes—including the names of Apollo and the Muses inlaid on the lid—it remains one of the grandest grand pianos ever made. The Clark acquired the piano in 1997.