Violette de Mazia Foundation Class to be held at the Barnes Foundation Galleries in Merion
Lower Merion, PA (October 10th, 2007) - The Barnes Foundation announced today that the Violette de Mazia Foundation
will hold a weekly class entitled "Informed Perception: An Objective Approach to Aesthetic Appreciation" this fall in the
Galleries of the Barnes Foundation in Merion, PA.
Violette de Mazia began teaching classes at the Barnes Foundation in 1927. She was appointed to the Board of
Trustees of the Barnes Foundation in 1935, and became director of Education of the Art Department in 1950.
De Mazia continued as an educator and board member at the Barnes Foundation until her death in 1988.
Executive Director and President of the Barnes Foundation Derek Gillman said, "We welcome the Violette de Mazia
Foundation's class to the Barnes Foundation galleries and look forward to further collaborations with them in
the future. Miss de Mazia was an important figure here at the Barnes Foundation, and she devoted much of her
life to the educational mission of the Foundation. We are delighted to have renewed our association to an
organization whose mission and study methods, are so clearly linked to the Barnes Foundation. The de Mazia
classes will have a significant place within the educational program we offer at the new facility on the
Benjamin Franklin Parkway."
The class will run 14 weeks and will commence on October 17, 2007.
About the Barnes Foundation
The Barnes Foundation was established by Albert C. Barnes in 1922 to "promote the advancement of education and the
appreciation of the fine arts." The Galleries house one of the world's largest collections of Impressionist,
Post-Impressionist and early Modern paintings, with extensive holdings by Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso,
Rousseau, Modigliani, Soutine and de Chirico, as well as Old Master paintings, important examples of African
sculpture and Native American ceramics, American furniture and metalwork, and antiquities from the Mediterranean
region and Asia.
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For more information, contact:
The Barnes Foundation
Andrew Stewart, 610 667 0290 x1567 or astewart@barnesfoundation.org
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