Beyond Artworks, Artist Stories of Opportunity and Inspiration

DOCENT: LiZ Smith

We are excited to announce this seasons’s final talk in our very popular series of art lectures brought to us by the docents at the Phoenix Art Museum. This talk is free and open to all Rio and Tonto Verde residents and their guests. We hope you’ll join us!

Do you ever wonder how a piece of artwork is chosen by a museum? Join Docent Liz Smith as she unravels the hows and whys of some of Phoenix Art Museum’s most loved works of art. Travel back in history and learn how the very first painting in the Museum was purchased. Learn how circumstance and opportunity can be as critical to an artist as their inspiration. You may never look at a piece of artwork in the same way again!

Egyptian Evening by Oscar Borg, 1911. Photo by Ken Howie courtesy of Phoenix Art Museum