Getty Museum Curator Lecture on Acquisitions
By STAN PARCHIN
October 25, 2009
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| Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (Italian, 1487-1576). Portrait of Alfonso d'Avalos, Marchese del Vasto, in Armor with a Page (probably January-February 1533). Oil on canvas. 110 x 60 cm (43 5/16 x 31 1/2 in.). J. Paul Getty Museum. |
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| Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640). The Calydonian Boar Hunt (ca. 1611-12). Oil on panel. 59 x 90.2 cm (23 1/4 x 35 1/2 in.). J. Paul Getty Museum. |
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| Paul Gauguin (French, 1848-1903). Arii Matamoe (The Royal End) (1892). Oil on coarse fabric. 47.9 x 74.9 cm (18 7/8 x 29 1/2 in.). J. Paul Getty Museum. |
The Curator Spotlight Series of lectures at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California describes artworks in its permanent collections, provides insight into special exhibitions and deals with questions and issues raised by them. All presentations are free and the objects discussed can be viewed both before and after the talks.
Scott J. Schaefer, Senior Curator of Paintings, delivers Collecting for the Public: Ten Years of Painting Acquisitions at the Getty Center's Harold M. Williams Auditorium on Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 3:00 P.M. Reservations are required. Call (310) 440-7300.
Since Schaefer's arrival in 1999, the Getty Museum has added some 60 paintings and pastels to its holdings. The distinguished curator's lecture explains a number of the works, their art historical importance, reasons for their accession and how they enrich the Getty's collection.
Education and Experience
Scott Schaefer graduated summa cum laude in history from the University of Arizona (1970), studied at the Warburg Institute, University of London (1974-75) and received his Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College (1976). The author of numerous publications served in a variety of curatorial capacities at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (1973 and 1975), the Fogg Art Museum (1976-80), the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1978-80) and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1980-87). He was Senior Vice President of Museum Services and Old Master Paintings and Drawings at Sotheby's, Inc. in New York (1988-99) before coming to the Getty Museum, where he was also the Acting Curator of Sculpture (1999-2005).
At the Getty Museum, Schaefer has supervised or initiated some 30 special exhibitions, among them: Dosso Dossi, Court Painter in Renaissance Ferrara (1999); The Sacred Spaces of Pieter Saenredam (2002); Rome on the Grand Tour (2002); Jean-Antoine Houdon: Sculptor of the Enlightenment (2003-04); Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile (2005); Rembrandt's Late Religious Paintings (2005); Courbet and the Modern Landscape (2006); Rubens and Brueghel: A Working Friendship (2006); Manet's "Bar at the Folies-Bergère" (2007); and Captured Emotions: Baroque Painting in Bologna, 1575–1725 (2008-09).