December 5, 2006
HOLIDAY POTLUCK & PROGRAM AT SHOUP PARK, LOS ALTOS

Betsy Fryberger

Burton and Deedee McMurtry Curator of Prints and Drawings, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University

presents
A Taste for Citrus

Citrus Trees have long been an essential feature in the garden landscape. This slide talk will start with how the Romans planted and used citrus, then during the Renaissance how being specialties of the Medici gardens their popularity spread. The lecture will conclude with a brief note on early California citrus groves. Betsy became interested in the relationship between gardens and artist’s depictions of gardens nearly fifteen years ago. Over the years, she has traveled to many parts of the world to see sites represented in the prints, paintings, photographs and drawings she has studied giving her a unique perspective on arts and the landscapes. Betsy is also the author of Picasso: Graphic Magician, Prints from the Norton Simon Collection (1999) and co-author of a book on the drawings collections of Stanford University.