Art Historian To Speak

The Friends of the Adelphi University Library will hold its 12th Annual Fall Art Lecture with art historian and popular lecturer from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Ines Losada Powell, who will speak on "The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art" on Sunday, November 18, 2007, at 3:00 p.m. in Adelphi's Ruth S. Harley University Center Ballroom, 1 South Avenue, Garden City, NY. The event is free and open to the public. Following the event, a drawing will be held for family passes to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as gifts and restaurant certificates.

At her twelfth appearance at Adelphi, Ms. Powell will discuss the museum's current exhibition of approximately 235 Dutch paintings (dating from about 1590 to 1800) by artists such as Rembrandt, Frans Hals, and Johannes Vermeer, among others. This exhibition, designed to coincide with the publication of the first catalogue of the collection and Rembrandt's 400th birthday, fills 12 galleries and displays the work together for the first time. The lecture will focus on how the collection was formed and how it reflects American taste for Dutch art over the past two centuries. The exhibition runs until January 6, 2008.

The event is sponsored by the Friends of Adelphi University Library. Founded in 1947, this organization aims to build up a greater realization of the importance of the library to the future development of the University.

For more information about this and other events on campus, please visit www.adelphi.edu, or call the Cultural Events Hotline at (516) 877-4555.