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"Public Collecting/Private Collecting: Four Decades of Collecting for the Communities I Served and Acquiring Works Personally That Were Meaningful to Me in My Life" presented by Robert Flynn Johnson

Art:inFOCUS Speaker Series - Immerse yourself in the world of art through this engaging series of presentations and open discussions with artists and art professionals.

Join us on Thursday, June 25, 2015, 6:00pm - 8:00pm at New Museum Los Gatos for "Public Collecting/Private Collecting: Four Decades of Collecting for the Communities I Served and Acquiring Works Personally That Were Meaningful to Me in My Life”, Presented by Robert Flynn Johnson

Robert Flynn Johnson is Curator Emeritus of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.  For more than forty years he has collected works for both museums and for his own personal collection.  His publications include Plant Kingdoms: The Photographs of Charles JonesArtists’ Books in the Modern Era 1870 - 2000Lucian Freud: Works on Paper,Anonymous: Enigmatic Images from Unknown Photographers and The Face in the Lens: Anonymous Photographs.  Currently, his exhibition Edgar Degas The Private Impressionist is on view at the Petaluma Arts Center from June 20th until July 26th.

Speaker Series: Robert Flynn Johnson
Earlier Event: June 20
Flameworking Demo
Later Event: July 7
Art Committee Meeting