Days of Learning: Jewish Artist Tour at the Barnes

Event details

  • Thursday | May 12, 2022
  • 12:30 pm

Jewish Artist Tour at the Barnes
12:30 to 1:30 PM (Meet at 12:15 outside the main entrance)
Docents at Barnes & talk at lunch with Mel Seligsohn

Enjoy a one-hour guided tour through the Barnes galleries highlighting Jewish artists in this world-renowned Collection. These artists brought with them a wide range of artistic histories, traditions, and backgrounds, creating a remarkably lively, cosmopolitan, and sophisticated environment. This tour highlights Jewish painters and sculptors in the Barnes: Jacques Lipchitz, Amedeo Modigliani, Jules Pascin, Chaim Soutine, Louis Marcoussis. Mel Seligsohn will be one of the docents, and he will lead a discussion over lunch in a private dining room for those who choose to stay for lunch.  Tour admission is $30, lunch is $20.  Registration is required and must be submitted by May 2. Please note that this registration is a separate form. Register here for this tour.