Sunday Afternoons with Edvard Munch

His Life & Work through Films and Lectures

April 9 & April 23, 2006
4:00pm - 6:30pm

THE PROGRAMS

Introductory Remarks
by the Hood Museum of Art's director, Brian P. Kennedy

Edvard Munch's Life and Work
Slide Lecture by the Munch collector Sarah G. Epstein
Throughout her more than fifty years of collecting Munch prints, she has traveled in Munch's footsteps, documented the places where he lived and worked, and interviewed close to a hundred people who knew the artist.

Edvard Munch: Graphics, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture
A 16mm film produced, directed and filmed by Clifford B. West (1968, 27 min)
Munch created more than 700 graphic images during his lifetime. This film, which also shows examples of Munch's drawings, watercolors and sculpture, explores his innovative approach to the various graphic techniques–drypoint, etching, woodcut and lithography.

From Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, and When We Dead Awaken
Readings by Jim Schley

Edvard Munch - Painter with Literary Ambitions
Slide lecture by Bente Torjusen
While Munch has inspired numerous painters, he was greatly influenced by writers, including the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Through years of work and research at the Munch Museum, Torjusen has taken a particular interest in the relationship between Munch's work, his own writing and that of others.

Edvard Munch: Paintings
A 16mm film produced, directed and filmed by Clifford B. West (1968, 40 min)
This film gives an overview of Munch's rich and varied oeuvre, from his well-known masterpieces, including The Scream, which was part of his Frieze of Life, to paintings rarely exhibited, and offers a particular insight into work from his later years. The narration is based exclusively on Munch's own writing.