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We'll never know how many masterpieces we'll never see because of advances in anti-depressant drugs. Would Vincent Van Gogh have painted "Starry Night" (and cut off his ear) if his shrink had prescribed Prosac?
have probably In conjunction with its ongoing retrospective of LeConte Stewart's Depression-era art, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts is bringing in New York-based psychoanalyst and art historian Laurie Wilson to lecture on "Death, Loss, and the Artist." Wilson will explore how traumatic events in childhood and adolescence are revealed in the work of three artists: Louise Nevelson, Alberto Giacometti and Utah's beloved Stewart, who in his early teens lost his mother, sister and two brothers to illness and accidents. Stewart acknowledged his feelings of loneliness and explained "he desperately yearned to put that feeling down in paint."
When • Saturday, Oct. 22, at 1 p.m.
Where • Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, University of Utah campus
Info • http://www.umfa.utah.edu/stewart, 801-585-1306.