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Program

FULLERTON HALL, THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO

First Session, Friday Morning, January 31, 11:00 a.m.

A BACKGROUND OF SPANISH HISTORY, 1780-1830.
DR. LOUIS GOTTSCHALK, Chairman, Department of History, The University of Chicago.
Dr. Gottschalk will discuss social and political Spain during the period of Goya, without which no understanding of his art can be complete.


Second Session, Friday Afternoon, January 31, 2:00 p.m.

GOYA'S DEVELOPMENT AS AN ARTIST. (Illustrated.)
DR. OSKAR HAGEN, Chairman, Department of History and Criticism of Fine Arts, The University of Wisconsin.
The stylistic evolution of Goya from the rococo decorator of the eighteenth century to the rebel expressionist of the nineteenth.

GOYA'S LAST PERIOD. (Illustrated.)
PROFESSOR JOSÉ GUDIOL, formerly Director, The Episcopal Museum of Vich, Spain, and Visiting Professor, The Toledo Museum of Art.
Goya's final phase is perhaps his most impressive. Like Titian's and Rembrandt's his old age is endowed with an extraordinary new vision and some of his most vital works were done when he was over seventy.


Third Session, Friday Evening, January 31, 8:30 p.m.

PROGRAM OF SPANISH FILMS.


Fourth Sesison, Saturday Morning, February 1, 11:00 a.m.

GOYA AS A DRAUGHTSMAN. (Illustrated.)
HARRY B. WEHLE, Curator of Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
The drawings of Goya - about 800 have been identified - occupy a unique place in the history of art. Mr. Wehle will put special stress on those in the exhibit.