January 22, 2025
1:00 pm
Kinder Building – Lynn Wyatt Theater
5500 Main St., Houston, TX 77004
Join Sisterhood at the Museum of Fine Arts for a fascinating program of Judaism Through the Arts. This special program will focus on the art of Tamara de Lempicka, who took Paris by storm in the 1920s with portraits, nude figure studies, and still life paintings that united classicism and high modernism to create some of the most defining works of the Art Deco era. An exhibit of de Lempicka’s works will open at MFAH in Spring 2025.
De Lempicka, born Tamara Rosa Hurwitz in Poland in 1894 in an era of fierce anti-semitism, learned at an early age to conceal her Jewish ancestry. Following her marriages to Tadeusz Lempicki and Baron Raoul Kuffner, she entered the circles of Polish and Hungarian aristocracy before being forced to flee Europe in 1939, settling at first in New York and Los Angeles, then in Houston in the 1960s. MFAH Curator Alison de Lima Greene will introduce the major themes of the exhibition and how the many guises de Lempicka assumed throughout her life are reflected in her art.
There is no cost for this program. Please RSVP online by visiting our web calendar or by contacting the Sisterhood office at 713.529.5771, ext. 233.
