Lecture by Peter Trippi at the Grolier Club, 22 April 2008


J.W. Waterhouse & Theatre: Painting with an Eye on the Stage
Lecture by Peter Trippi

         Tuesday, 22 April 2008
         6 p. m. Reception to follow

         The Grolier Club
         47 East 60th Street
         New York, NY

Sponsored by the William Morris Society in the United States, the American Friends of Arts and Crafts in Chipping Campden, the Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms, and the Victorian Society in America.


Tickets: $12 reduced rate for members of the Society and the other sponsoring organizations; $18 for others. Tickets may be purchased from the William Morris Society in the United States, via the Society's secure web site (PayPal and credit cards accepted, see below), or by sending a check (please mark the envelope "Trippi lecture") to

         William Morris Society in the United States
         P.O. Box 53263
         Washington, DC 20009

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About the lecture: The great Victorian painter J.W. Waterhouse (1849Ð1917) is known worldwide as a "late Pre-Raphaelite" because he discovered and began revitalizing the legacy of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood as late as 1886. It is odd, however, that the paintings he made after 1882, such as The Lady of Shalott, have never been interpreted as evidence of Waterhouse's keen awareness of the golden age being enjoyed in the theatres of London and Paris at the time. Trippi's talk looks at this phenomenon, linking it to such figures as Ellen Terry and Henry Irving, and also to Waterhouse's mature masterpieces, such as Saint Cecilia of 1895 and Hylas and the Nymphs of 1896.


About Peter Trippi: Peter Trippi is president of Projects in 19th-Century Art, Inc., established in 2006 to pursue research, writing, and curating opportunities. He became editor of the magazine, Fine Art Connoisseur, after serving as director of New York's Dahesh Museum of Art. In 2002, Phaidon published Trippi's monograph J. W. Waterhouse. Trippi is now curating a Waterhouse retrospective that will open at the Groninger Museum (Netherlands) in 2008, then visit London's Royal Academy and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. A co-founder of the online journal Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, he serves on the board of Historians of British Art. Trippi received a B.A. in history and art history from the College of William and Mary; an M.A. in visual arts administration from New York University; and an M.A. in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art.


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