New Exhibit: What Degas and Monet Saw

Lane Library is proud to present an original exhibit, What Degas and Monet Saw. The exhibit appears on the first floor of the library in two adjacent rooms and showcases the scholarship of Dr. Michael Marmor, professor and past chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at Stanford.

Dr. Marmor has explored the ways in which changes in eyesight may have affected the styles of a variety of visual artists. This exhibit features Dr. Marmor's investigation of two famous Impressionist painters, Edgar Degas (1834-1917) and Claude Monet (1840-1926).

To mount the exhibit, Lane Library collaborated with major art museums in London, Paris, New York, St. Petersburg (Russia), and elsewhere. Antique medical instruments and other historical materials from Lane's collections are also on display. For more information about the exhibit, please contact Drew Bourn at dbourn@stanford.edu.

We understand better from these simulations what Degas and Monet struggled with as their vision failed.
- Dr. M. Marmor

Posted on October 6, 2008 11:03 AM

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