Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
In the first of a four-part lecture series, art historian **John Walsh** shows how Matisse was seduced by light and color on the Riviera and pushed them to new extremes in landscapes, figure paintings, and still lifes--what a critic called wild, “fauve.” **John Walsh**, an independent art historian, was Director of the J. Paul Getty Museum from 1983 until 2000. After graduating from Yale and getting his PhD from Columbia, he worked as a curator at the Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and taught art history at Columbia and Harvard. Since he left the Getty he has been teaching part-time at Yale and giving public lectures there. He has previously given lecture series at the Hammer on [Vincent Van Gogh](https://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2019/10/van-gogh-in-la) and [Rembrandt van Rijn](https://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2020/rembrandt-here-and-now).