
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, February 21, 1991                   TAG: 9102210190
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-4   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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DATELINE: BLACKSBURG                                LENGTH: Short

ART LECTURE MARCH 3 IN BLACKSBURG

French painters Eugene Boudin and Claude Monet paved the way for the development of impressionism in later 19th century art. "In Daylight: The Development of Impressionist Landscape Painting" is the Woodward topic of a lecture by Richard Woodward, an expert on the work of Boudin and Monet. Woodward will speak March 3 at 3 p.m. in the Blacksburg branch library, 400 Draper Road.

Woodward, deputy director for planning and programs at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, received his master's degree in art history from the University of Virginia. Monet's water lillies were the subject of his thesis.

Before joining the museum staff in 1975, Woodward taught art at Piedmont Virginia Community College. Exhibits he has organized for the museum include "American Folk Paintings," "Degas" and "Paintings and Drawings by John Dos Passos."

Woodward's illustrated talk at the Blacksburg library is sponsored locally by the Blacksburg Regional Art Association. The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, call Nadine Allen at 552-1798.

by CNB