April 9, 2003
Contact:
Lauren Howard, 415/357-4176,
Libby Garrison, 415/357-4177,
EDUCATION AND MUSIC PROGRAMS ILLUMINATE
THE ART OF PAUL KLEE AT SFMOMA
A Passion for Paul Klee: The Djerassi Collection at SFMOMA is on view through June 8, 2003 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). Klee’s artistic and musical connections are explored in the following programs:
Lecture
Thursday, May 1• 7 p.m. • Phyllis Wattis Theater
The Art of Paul Klee and His Contemporaries
Beth Dungan, art historian
Dungan discusses many of the works on view in A Passion for Paul Klee, investigating Klee’s interest in abstraction and his use of line. She will draw connections between Klee and Pablo Picasso, Vassily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian.
$15 general; $12 sfmoma members, students with id and seniors. Tickets are available at the Museum with no surcharge or through TicketWeb at or 866/468-3399. For more information, the public can call the Education Programs Information Line at 415/947-1292.
Special Music Program
Saturday, May 31 • 1 to 4 p.m. The Schwab Room
Visual Sounds: Music and the Art of Paul Klee
K. Porter Aichele, professor of art history and museum studies, University of North Carolina, Greensboro; Peter Grundberg, pianist and music educator, San Francisco Symphony; Susan Key, program coordinator, San Francisco Symphony
Klee specialist Aichele and musicians from the San Francisco Symphony present a program of images, music and conversation addressing Klee’s musical connections in three parts: Klee’s interest in Mozart and other classical music, music of Germany’s Weimar Period and music composed in response to Klee’s art.
$25 general; $20 SFMOMA members and SF Symphony subscribers, students with ID and seniors. Tickets are available at the Museum with no surcharge or through TicketWeb at or 866/468-3399. For more information, the public can call the Education Programs Information Line at 415/947-1292. This program is presented in conjunction with the San Francisco Symphony festival Innocence Undone: Wagner, Weill, and the Weimar Years, which runs June 11-22. Visit for more information.
The Djerassi Collection of work by Swiss Modernist Paul Klee—assembled by Dr. Carl Djerassi and placed in SFMOMA’s care—is seen in full for the first time ever in this exhibition. Artworks in the collection, most of which are on paper, reveal the spirit of investigation and experimentation Klee brought to his practice as a master of the 20th-century avant-garde. Spanning the years from 1885 to Klee’s death in 1940, the 140 works on view include watercolors, drawings, etchings and lithographs.
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Education Programs at SFMOMA are made possible by the Koret Foundation, Bank of America Foundation, and the Flora Family Foundation. Additional support is provided by the California Arts Council; MetLife Foundation; Robert and Helen Odell Fund; SBC; Wells Fargo; Cathy Kalin and Eva Klein, 2002 Carole and Robert McNeil Docent Award recipients; the Bothin Foundation; AEGON Transamerica Foundation; The Georges DeBatz Trust for the Arts; McKesson Foundation; Gap Foundation; Mervyn’s; The Morrison & Foerster Foundation; Stanley S. Langendorf Foundation; Loomis, Sayles & Company, LP; and the Morris Stulsaft Foundation.
KidstART free admission for children twelve and under is made possible by The Charles Schwab Corporation Foundation.
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