Thursday, February 16, 4pm
Free of charge

Nelson Gallery Director Renny Pritikin will lead visitors on an informal discussion of the current exhibition Poking at Beehives as well as selections from the Fine Arts Collection currently on view at the Nelson Gallery, UC Davis. Poking at Beehives is a three-person - Peter Edund, Leslie Shows, Fred Tomaselli - painting show that deals with the artists' ideas about nature. The permanent collection on view includes works on paper by major artists from Rembrandt to Cezanne, as well as newly acquired photographs by Northern California artists.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012
6:00 to 9:00 pm

An exclusive preview of the upcoming exhibition with presentations by artists at 6:30:

Poking at Beehives:
Three Painters
Peter Edlund
Leslie Shows
Fred Tomaselli

Through the generous donation by an alumna of a suite of vintage glass negatives, the NELSON is offering for sale new c-prints of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake taken in the days and weeks after the disaster. We have not been able to identify the artist but believe these to be rare images. The quality of the negatives allows for amazingly detailed prints from scans.

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Image:
San Francisco City Hall ruined by 1906 Earthquake
11" x 14" Museum Quality C-Print

These are videos from the Nelson Gallery's Open House at our new location at Nelson Hall (the former University Club) on January 15, 2011. Twenty community members gave 5-minute presentations about a work of their choice from American Gothic: Regionalist Portraiture from the Collection.

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For the first time, in 2011 the Nelson commissioned a UC Davis Art History graduate student to select one piece from the permanent collection and use it as the basis for researching a paper. The award was given to Kamal Zargar who presented his work on May 31, 2011 in the gallery; Zargar has graciously agreed to make his text available here.

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Image:
Fratelli Alinari
Palazzo Ducale, Venice
Albumen print, c. 1865-1885