Curator Lecture: William Breazeale on The Splendor of Germany (Cancelled)

NOTE: The Crocker Art Museum is temporarily closed to the public, and all programs, tours, classes, and events through April 30 have been postponed or cancelled.

In this lecture celebrating the 150th anniversary of the acquisition of the E.B. Crocker collection, William Breazeale, the Museum’s curator of European art, will dive into the Crocker’s 18th-century German drawings and the fascinating network of artists, collectors, and dealers involved in its formation.

Trained at the National Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Crocker Art Museum Curator William Breazeale is the organizer of many exhibitions including “The Language of the Nude: Four Centuries of Drawing the Human Body”, “A Pioneering Collection: Master Drawings from the Crocker Art Museum”, and “Reuniting the Masters: European Drawings from West Coast Collections”. With a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland and a dissertation on Italian sketchbooks, he is the author of articles for Master Drawings including “Old Masters in Old California: the Origins of the Drawings Collection at the Crocker Art Museum,” “Nature and a new drawing by Otto Marseus van Schrieck,” and “Two Small Heads by Giulio Romano in the collection of the Crocker Art Museum.”