French Language Tour with Dr. Frank Martin

Join the CMA’s resident Francophile, Dr. Frank Martin, for a French-language tour of French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850 – 1950. Accompany Martin through each gallery as he highlights the exhibition’s themes: landscape, the nude, still life, and portraits and models. Please note that this tour will be conducted in French without any translation. If you prefer a tour in English, there are many to choose from! Check out the CMA’s public tours, offered on a regular basis.

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Dr. Frank C. Martin, II serves as visiting associate professor of art history and art theory at South Carolina State University and is the retired director of The I.P. Stanback Museum & Planetarium, located on the campus of the university. A graduate of Yale University and the City University of New York, Hunter College, with additional study in contemporary art and art theory at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University, Martin holds a Ph.D. in philosophy with a specialization in axiology and the history of aesthetics from the University of South Carolina. A former lecturer and associate manager of the Office of Education Services for the Uris Education Center of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Martin has served as an academic advisor for the PBS documentary Shared History and has worked as a contributing critic in the fine arts for Charleston’s The Post and Courier. Martin is a member of the International Association of Art Critics (Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art) based in Paris.

^{Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875). The Young Woman of Albano, 1872. Oil on canvas, 29 3/16 x 25 13/16 in. (74.1 x 65.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. Horace O. Havemeyer, 42.196. (Photo: Sarah DeSantis, Brooklyn Museum)}