Art Lecture with Jean Stern
Part of the California Art Club Orange County Chapter Exhibition.
Topic: California Art Club’s influence on painting in Orange County.
This ticketed event will be held in the Main Salon of the Casa Romantica, as the audience gets a peek into the 115-year old organization in whose name these artists are exhibiting.
About Jean Stern
A nationally recognized authority on California Impressionism, Mr. Stern has extensive experience as an author, curator, lecturer, and teacher. He was the founding and sole director of The Irvine Museum (1992-2016), a small but exceptionally active California institution that collected, researched and displayed paintings of the California Impressionist Style (1890-1940).
As director of The Irvine Museum, he worked to establish a national presence for California Impressionism through a noteworthy series of books, touring exhibitions, lectures, articles and video documentaries. He has authored, edited or contributed to over 30 books on California art. He currently serves on the board of the California Art Club, founded in 1909, and is a board adviser to the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association, in Laguna Beach, California.
In 2017, Mr. Stern received the prestigious CHEVALIER OF THE ORDER OF ARTS AND LETTERS from the French Ministry of Culture and has been presented with five LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS.
