Past Event
Sunday, October 16, 2022, 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Art in the Evening: Letters in the World of Vermeer
1500 El Prado, San Diego, 92101
Age Limit: 21+
Cost: $45 - $65
Vermeer’s Woman in Blue Reading a Letter has many friends at the Timken Museum of Art after the summer she spent there in 2015, thanks to a loan from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. As evident in his works, including the recently restored Woman Reading a Letter before an Open Window from Dresden, this seventeenth-century Delft master had a life-long fascination with the subject of women and letters. This lecture will examine how Vermeer captured, in quiet and subtle ways, the emotional impact for women of receiving a letter from an absent loved one.