Princeton University Art Museum : Highlights of the Collections (Online)

Each month, April through July, docents from the Princeton University Art Museum will use art works from the Museum's Collections to discuss diverse artists and their work. Some presentation may be focused on a specific theme. Participants will be invited to ask questions, share observations and engage in a lively discussion about the art.  

April 20 : Highlights of the Collections

Enjoy selections from across time, geography, and medium that showcase the truly universal scope of the Art Museum’s collections. A program might include an ancient Mediterranean vase, an Asian hanging scroll, pre-Columbian ceramics, African sculpture, European paintings, American photography, and recent acquisitions of twenty-first-century art.

Docent Jeanne Johnson. A classically trained musician with degrees from Indiana University School of Music and Northwestern University, Jeanne enjoyed a long vocal soloist career, and also maintained a piano and voice studio on the North Shore of Chicago. While raising three sons and pursuing her career in music, Jeanne has been an active volunteer. She served on the Executive Board of the American Association of University Women, The Infant Welfare Society Board, the board of her music honorary -Sigma Alpha Iota, NorthShore University Health System Foundation, serving on their Auxiliary Board for 15 years, and then on the Hospital Board during her Auxiliary presidency.

In 2009, Jeanne became very involved with the Princeton University Art Museum, serving as a touring docent, 10years on the docent board (Chair 2018-2020), and as Gala Co-Chair in2013 and 2016. She participated in Gallery Talks on the Road and enjoyed giving hour-long in-depth studies of artists. Currently, she is president of Newcomers YWCA Princeton where she leads a group interested in studying great artists. Her husband (who is a docent at Drumthwacket) and she love art, gardening, travel (87 countries and counting) and performances of opera, theatre and orchestral

Credit: Guanyin seated in Royal-ease pose, ca. 1250,Southern Song dynasty, 1127–1279, Chinese, Wood with traces of blue-green, red, and gold pigments on white clay underlayer with relief designs, Museum purchase, Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr., Memorial Collection

May 18: American Art

Examine the depth and breadth of American art, including historical and contemporary Indigenous art, Euro-American portraiture and landscapes, and groundbreaking modern paintings.

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June 15 : European Treasures

Travel across Europe through a sampling of sculpture, works on paper, and paintings from the from the 12th to the 20th century.

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July 20 : World Cultures

Discover what art reveals about the life, traditions, and beliefs of earlier cultures through objects such as Roman mosaic floors, an ancient Olmec sculpture, a Northwest Coast rattle, African ceremonial masks, and early Chinese bronze vessels.

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