Sunday, March 29, 2009
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Susan Wheeler, 2009 GEORGE ROSEN MEMORIAL LECTURE
The Beaumont Medical Club of Connecticut
GEORGE ROSEN MEMORIAL LECTURE
Susan Wheeler
"Thomas Rowlandson and the Anatomists: A Further Look at the Dissecting Room Drawings"
FRIDAY, March 27, 2009, 5:00—6:00 PM
Susan Wheeler is Curator of Prints and Drawings, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at Yale University. She has spent her professional career at Yale, much of it associated with the Medical Historical Collections where she has researched and documented the collection of prints and drawings, overseen an early conservation program, and is currently expanding the collection through an active acquisition initiative. She is the author of Five Hundred Years of Medicine in Art, an illustrated catalogue of the Clements C. Fry Collection of prints and drawings at the library published in 2001. In conjunction with the Yale School of Medicine's Program for the Humanities in Medicine, she introduces medical and nursing students to art in the history of medicine through discussions of illustrated books, prints, and objects in the Library's collections.
The 2009 George Rosen Lecture "Thomas Rowlandson and the Anatomists: A Further Look at the Dissecting Room Drawings" commemorates Dr. Rosen's interest in art as a medium to be mined for historical information and his pursuit of art as a personal avocation. The lecture will highlight works from the Yale Medical Historical Collections which will be on view.
FRIDAY, March 27, 2009, 5:00—6:00 PM
Susan Wheeler is Curator of Prints and Drawings, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at Yale University. She has spent her professional career at Yale, much of it associated with the Medical Historical Collections where she has researched and documented the collection of prints and drawings, overseen an early conservation program, and is currently expanding the collection through an active acquisition initiative. She is the author of Five Hundred Years of Medicine in Art, an illustrated catalogue of the Clements C. Fry Collection of prints and drawings at the library published in 2001. In conjunction with the Yale School of Medicine's Program for the Humanities in Medicine, she introduces medical and nursing students to art in the history of medicine through discussions of illustrated books, prints, and objects in the Library's collections.
The 2009 George Rosen Lecture "Thomas Rowlandson and the Anatomists: A Further Look at the Dissecting Room Drawings" commemorates Dr. Rosen's interest in art as a medium to be mined for historical information and his pursuit of art as a personal avocation. The lecture will highlight works from the Yale Medical Historical Collections which will be on view.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
A lost Stuart Davis or possibly a Constructivist Painting found in Tenafly: breaking news
Tenafly in Bergen County, New Jersey, is not known as a town which values the visual arts; thus is was all the more surprising to find a constructivist painting or could it be a work by the great twentieth-century American painter Stuart Davis on the grounds of the Tenafly Commons or the Tenafly Public Schools property? Since the two have fused, it is difficult to decide who owns this masterpiece.
Friday, March 20, 2009
One of the Butterflies: by W. S. Merwin, (my draft 2)
One of the Butterflies
The trouble with pleasure is the timing
it can overtake me without warning
and be gone before I know it is here
it can stand facing me unrecognized
while I am remembering somewhere else
in another age or someone not seen
for years and never to be seen again
in this world and it seems that I cherish
only now a joy I was not aware of
when it was here although it remains
out of reach and will not be caught or named
or called back and if I could make it stay
as I want to it would turn into pain
(image draft: 3)
Memory: One of the Butterflies by W.S. Merwin
One of the Butterflies
The trouble with pleasure is the timing
it can overtake me without warning
and be gone before I know it is here
it can stand facing me unrecognized
while I am remembering somewhere else
in another age or someone not seen
for years and never to be seen again
in this world and it seems that I cherish
only now a joy I was not aware of
when it was here although it remains
out of reach and will not be caught or named
or called back and if I could make it stay
as I want to it would turn into pain
The trouble with pleasure is the timing
it can overtake me without warning
and be gone before I know it is here
it can stand facing me unrecognized
while I am remembering somewhere else
in another age or someone not seen
for years and never to be seen again
in this world and it seems that I cherish
only now a joy I was not aware of
when it was here although it remains
out of reach and will not be caught or named
or called back and if I could make it stay
as I want to it would turn into pain
(1mages: drafts 1 and 2)
Spring: March 20, 2009
the bud emerges imagining the delights of youth, ignorant of the wounds it will endure
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Beate Caspari-Rosen, MD: Happy Birthday
Beate Brigitta Caspari was born in Berlin on March 14, 1910
Beate as a very young child and at age 60
My mother stands in front of the doorway to the building she grew up in at 41 Metzerstrasse, shown as it appeared in 1978. Located in East Berlin, it was not destroyed in WWII, but its facades were damaged. A photograph taken around 2005, shows restoration and also how such buildings have been historically reconstructed in the area.
My father George Rosen annotated the back of the photograph: "Atta, the young beauty".
Beate as a very young child and at age 60
My mother stands in front of the doorway to the building she grew up in at 41 Metzerstrasse, shown as it appeared in 1978. Located in East Berlin, it was not destroyed in WWII, but its facades were damaged. A photograph taken around 2005, shows restoration and also how such buildings have been historically reconstructed in the area.
My father George Rosen annotated the back of the photograph: "Atta, the young beauty".
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Friday, March 6, 2009
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Self Discovery: inadverent
the camera reveals a self portrait in ice with unforeseen stylistic similarities to Jackson Pollock,
Lucas Samaras, and Chuck Close
Lucas Samaras, and Chuck Close
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
Title of painting by Paul Gauguin,
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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