Curator George Keyes to Give Lecture on Rembrandt Jan. 26

Story posted January 08, 2012

George S. Keyes, retired curator of European paintings at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), will give a talk titled "Rembrandt the Evangelist" at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, January 26, 2012, in Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall.

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Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, The Agony in the Garden, ca. 1657, etching and drypoint on paper. ©Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine. Gift of Charles Pendexter.

The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art with support from the Robert Lehman Foundation.

Curator at DIA for 14 years before his retirement, George Keyes recently served as a co-organizer for the international exhibition Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus. This exhibition originated at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, before traveling to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and DIA, where it is currently on view through February 12.

Keyes earned degrees at The College of Wooster, Oberlin College, and University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. He served as curator of paintings at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts before joining DIA.

Among the major exhibitions Keyes has organized or co-organized are Dutch and Flemish Masters: Paintings from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts; Rembrandt's Lucretias; Mirror of Empire: Dutch Marine Art of the 17th Century; Treasures of Venice: Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest; and Van Gogh: Face to Face.

Keyes was the coordinating editor of an issue of the Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts that focused on later 19th-century French art. He is also the lead author of the catalogue Masters of Dutch Paintings: The Detroit Institute of Arts, which includes all the 17th-century Dutch paintings in the DIA's permanent collection.

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