Renoir, Rubens and Goya, Oh My!
This Dallas Museum Unveils Historic Treasures
By Jane Rozelle //
Photography Kim Leeson, Tamytha Cameron
What: Meadows Museum Exhibition Opening Gala
Where: Meadows Museum
Who: Southern Methodist University president R. Gerald Turner; Meadows School of the Arts dean Samuel Holland; museum director Mark Roglán; president and CEO of The Meadows Foundation Linda Evans; Kay Bailey Hutchison, Margaret McDermott, Jeanne Tower Cox, Capera Ryan, Connie and Chris O’Neill, Ruth Altshuler and Jeanne Johnson Phillips
PC Moment: A breathtaking splendor: More than 500 years of history decorated the grandiose walls of the Meadows Museum, marking the exhibition opening of Treasures from the House of Alba. Patrons pored over the magnificent works from celebrated artists including Jusepe de Ribera, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Peter Paul Rubens, and Franz Xaver Winterhalter. Co-organized by the Meadows Museum and the Casa de Alba Foundation, the private collection is one of the oldest and most significant culminations of work dating back to the 15th century. Oh, if those walls could talk …
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