Past News & Events

The Golden Gate Atelier offers a variety of events throughout the year, you can browse an archive of our past events and happenings below.

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Museum visit with GGA

Jun 27, 2026

11:30am

On Saturday, June 27, Golden Gate Atelier will visit The Napa Valley Museum of Art & Culture for a special exhibition, The Wyeths: Three Generations. We will see paintings by renowned illustrator N. C. Wyeth, by his son Andrew Wyeth, one of the greatest realist painters of the second half of the 20th century, and by Andrew’s son Jamie and sister Henriette. We will meet at 11:30am in front of the Napa Valley Museum, 607 St Helena Hwy, St Helena CA

https://napavalleymuseum.org/blogs/exhibitions/the-wyeths-three-generations-works-from-the-bank-of-america-collection

In preparation for the exhibition, Sean Forester will give two art history lectures: American Illustrators on June 5 and Andrew Wyeth on June 19. The lectures take place at the atelier on Fridays at 4:30pm, and the GGA community is invited. No RSVP required. Please email us with any questions.

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GGA Visit to Legion of Honor: Botticelli Drawings

Feb 10, 2024

Saturday, February 10, 10am

GGA Museum Visit
Legion of Honor Botticelli Drawings
Saturday, February 10th

Join Golden Gate Atelier for a visit to Botticelli Drawings, a special exhibition at the Legion of Honor. We will meet on Saturday, February 10th, at 10 am at the entrance to the exhibition. This is on the lower flower of the museum in the Rosekrans Court. We are visiting on the final weekend of the show and it could be crowded, so we recommend that you reserve your tickets in advance here:  https://tickets.famsf.org/events/283/detail/64df9f3b23e84e7e96dd15d2After seeing the exhibition, we will have lunch together at the museum cafe. Please join us, no RSVP required.

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GGA Visit to Legion of Honor: Botticelli Drawings

Feb 10, 2024

Saturday, February 10, 2024 10am

Join Golden Gate Atelier for a visit to Botticelli Drawings, a special exhibition at the Legion of Honor. We will meet on Saturday, February 10th, at 10 am at the entrance to the exhibition.
After seeing the exhibition, we will have lunch together at the museum cafe.

Please join us, no RSVP required.

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Vermeer – The Greatest Exhibition

May 16, 2023

Tuesday, May 16 1pm

Please join Golden Gate Atelier for a film on the recent Vermeer show at the Rijksmuseum.
Rialto Cinemas Elmwood
2966 College Ave at Ashby, Berkeley
We will go to a local cafe afterwards to have some food and drinks and discuss the inspiring paintings of the Master of Delft.

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Americans in Paris: Online Art and Literature Seminar

Feb 21, 2023 – Mar 14, 2023

4 Tuesdays at 4pm, beginning February 21

Sean Forester will lead an online class on David McCullough’s wonderful book The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris. To sign up: https://www.classicalpursuits.com/product/online-seminarthe-greater-journey-americans-in-paris/
Sean will lecture on the paintings of John Singer Sargent, Thomas Eakins, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and more. There will also be group discussions of McCullough’s book. Here is a preview:

They left America and sailed to France. Painters and sculptors, inventors, political thinkers, doctors and nurses – Paris gave them a vision of deeper knowledge and more intense beauty.  We follow in the footsteps of Samuel Morse, an accomplished painter before he invented the telegraph and Morse code; Charles Sumner, whose studies at the Sorbonne helped make him a passionate abolitionist; and Elizabeth Blackwell, America’s first female physician, when there were twice the number of medical students in École de Médecine de Paris as in all of America. McCullough gives us the sweep of history, from the Franco-Prussian war to the Commune and the Second Empire.

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