Salisbury Society members love to experience and learn about art with unique programs and experiences in-person and online! Salisbury Society members make WAM and art and culture in this community a priority. Their unrestricted gifts to the Annual Fund of $1,500 or more provide essential support to all areas of the Museum. Because of their philanthropy and commitment, Salisbury members are treated to a full array of benefits and exclusive programs. With the closing of the Museum, Salisbury members have enjoyed bi-weekly/monthly art programs by the Director and the Curators. These exclusive Drinks with the Director/Cocktails with the Curator talks are videotaped and available at a website only accessed by Salisbury members, including the following past programs: • “New Light on an Old Master at WAM (Gonçal Peris) and Another Old Master in a Roman Chapel (Caravaggio)” by Jean and Myles McDonough Director Matthias Waschek • “Love Stories exhibition from the National Portrait Gallery in London” (coming to WAM in November 2021) by Claire Whitner, Ph.D., the Director of Curatorial Affairs and James A. Welu Curator of European Art • “A Tour of WAM’s Collection and New Acquisitions Representing Turn-of-the-century Paris” by Nancy Burns, the Stoddard Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs • “Discoveries from the Vault: New Findings from the Higgins Collection” by Jeffrey Forgeng, Ph.D., the Higgins Curator of Arms and Armor and Medieval Art • “Highlights from WAM's South Asian and Islamic Works on Paper Collection” by Rachel Parikh, Ph.D., Assistant Curator of Asian and Middle Eastern Art. • “Portrait Revival Miniatures from the Worcester Art Museum” by Erin R. Corrales-Diaz, Ph.D., Assistant Curator of American Art • “Worcester's Seven Saints under the Microscope at the Getty Museum” by Rita Albertson, The George F. and Sybil H. Fuller Term Chair in Conservation and Chief Conservator* • “Reflections: Hope and Healing in the Time of COVID” by Director Emeritus James A. Welu
Salisbury Spotlight: Dr. Sara Shields and Bruce Fishbein Sara and Bruce have appreciated WAM since moving to Central Massachusetts in 1994. As a family medicine professor at UMass Medical School and the Family Health Center of Worcester, Sara co-taught a humanities curriculum for family medicine residents. This included teaching observation, teamwork, and communication skills at WAM by looking at art together. In 2018, Sara became a WAM docent and particularly loved giving her maternity care colleagues tours of the recent exhibition, With Child: Otto Dix/Carmen Winant. Bruce enjoys the behind-the-scenes curator tours that come with Salisbury membership, and they both look forward to staying involved with the Museum.
If you missed one or more of these virtual presentations, please email Nancy Jeppson at NancyJeppson@worcesterart.org for the link to view them.
Portrait of Postman Roulin, Vincent van Gogh On loan from The Detroit Institute of Arts, Vincent van Gogh’s Portrait of Postman Roulin, hangs next to our own (Te Faaturuma) The Brooding Woman by Paul Gauguin. The pairing of our Gauguin with Van Gogh’s Postman allows us to explore the impact these titans of PostImpressionism had on each other.
*This presentation was not recorded.
Future Salisbury presentations will include: • October 2020: Beyond Midnight: Paul Revere by Erin R. Corrales-Diaz, Ph.D., Assistant Curator of American Art, and Elizabeth Fox, Luce Curatorial Assistant of American Art. • November 2020: Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of Postman Roulin by Claire Whitner, Ph.D., the Director of Curatorial Affairs and James A. Welu Curator of European Art • December 2020: Edward Augustus Brackett, Shipwrecked Mother and Child sculpture by Paula Artal-Isbrand, Objects Conservator 26
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Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of Postman Roulin, 1888, oil on canvas, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Buhl Ford II, 1996.25