Special Lecture by Wayne Franits

Paper Delights: The Peck Collection of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drawings

Join us for a free public talk by distinguished professor Wayne Franits (Syracuse University), specialist in seventeenth century Dutch and Flemish Art. This lecture examines some of the highlights of the exhibition of the incomparable Peck Collection of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drawings, which is currently on view at the Ackland Art Museum. Wayne Franits is a well-known scholar of seventeenth-century Dutch art and an occasional drawings collector himself. He will shed further light on several of the drawings in the exhibition and briefly share his own recollections of Sheldon Peck.

Hosted by the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Art and Art History and MEMS, UNC’s Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program

Free and open to the public.