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Virtual Art in Focus: Rembrandt, Three Trees, 1643

Next up in our Virtual Art in Focus series is Rembrandt’s Three Trees, his largest landscape print and one in which he combined multiple techniques to produce this dramatic vision of a sudden storm rolling across the flat countryside. Join us at 1pm on Thursday, October 10 on thequicklive.com for informal conversation about this work, led by Curator of Education Michelle DiMarzo, PhD. This print is on view as part of the exhibition Ink and Time: European Prints from the…

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November 14, 2024 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

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Next up in our Virtual Art in Focus series is Rembrandt’s Three Trees, his largest landscape print and one in which he combined multiple techniques to produce this dramatic vision of a sudden storm rolling across the flat countryside. Join us at 1pm on Thursday, October 10 on thequicklive.com for informal conversation about this work, led by Curator of Education Michelle DiMarzo, PhD.
This print is on view as part of the exhibition Ink and Time: European Prints from the Wetmore Collection, on view through December 21. For more information about the exhibition, visit our website here.
Rembrandt van Rijn, Three Trees, 1643, etching, drypoint, and burin. Courtesy of the Wetmore Collection, Connecticut College.

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