Wednesday, March 13, 2002

WILMINGTON, NC – Painter and writer Nicholas Kilmer will lecture on the artwork of Frederick Carl Frieseke at 8 p.m., Thursday, March 21, in UNCW’s Kenan Hall, Room 121. A reception will precede the lecture at 7 p.m. The UNCW Department of Art and Theatre is sponsoring this free, public event.

Kilmer, the grandson of Frieseke, served as curator for a major retrospective of his grandfather’s work organized by the Telfair Museum in Savannah. An art dealer and painter from Cambridge, Mass., Kilmer is also a published mystery author. The Telfair Museum exhibit, consisting of 70 paintings, chronicled Frieseke’s artistic career from its early period through impressionism and later realism. This largest, most comprehensive display of Frieske’s work has traveled to cities nationwide including Memphis, Chicago and San Diego.

Frieske (1874 to 1939), was an expatriate who lived in France. He built an international reputation on his luscious, light-filled paintings of women at leisure.