Tournée Française: Bastille Day at the CMA

Head to your museum on Bastille Day for a French language tour in the CMA galleries. Led by art historian Dr. Frank Martin, this tour celebrating Francophile culture explores some of the many French works in the CMA Collection, including paintings by Claude Monet, François Clouet, and Jean-Marc Nattier. Vive le 14 jullet! 

Free with membership, admission, or SC residency. 
Generous support provided by Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program.

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.

^{The Seine at Giverny (L'Île aux Orties, Giverny)
Claude Monet
(French, 1840-1926)
1897
Oil on canvas
Gift of Mary T. Chambers}