Impressionist Still Life: The Fine Art of Food
Monday, December 16
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Central Library
Rasmussen RoomArtists including Monet, Renoir and Caillebotte all painted still life subjects featuring food and flowers. Art historian Michelle Mishur discusses why these artists and others considered still life a modern subject for their own time and how their approaches responded to the great tradition of 17th-century Dutch still life.
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Central Library
The Schaumburg Township District Library serves in excess of 134,000 residents in portions of the municipalities Elk Grove Village, Hanover Park, Hoffman Estates, Schaumburg and Streamwood. With over 1 million visitors each year, the library circulates over 2,000,000 items annually and is the second largest public library in the state of Illinois.