Join AKC MOD Curator Alan Fausel on a collector’s guide to dog bronze sculpture. Using objects from the museum’s collection, the lecture will guide attendees through the history of bronze casting and its various processes. Stellar examples will be used to illustrate what to look for in assessing the quality of a bronze as well as helpful hints on how to identify later recasts and non-bronze reproductions.

A select number of tickets are available to view the lecture live in the Museum’s Library space free with the purchase/reservation of General Admission. Members are invited to join us from all over the globe on the virtual broadcast. Simply sign in with your membership to reserve your virtual seat.

About the Presenter:
Although many people are familiar with Alan Fausel through his three decades of appearances on PBS’ Antiques Roadshow from the Paintings and Drawings table, he has an extensive background in the area of sculpture. In graduate school at Stanford he was able to study under Albert Elsen the preeminent authority on the work of Rodin and advisor to Iris an B. Gerald Cantor. Fausel was then employed at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco in the department of European Sculpture which contained not only plasters and lifetime casts of Rodin works but also an encyclopedic collection of European sculpture from the Middle Ages to the present. During his tenure there he assisted in producing an exhibition and catalogue of the Abbott-Guggenheim collection of Renaissance and Baroque bronzes. He was then named curator of the Frick Art Museum in Pittsburgh where he oversaw a selection of the noted J.P. Morgan Bronze Collection and works by 18th c. French masters Houdon and Clodion. In his subsequent 30 year career in the auction world he handled major American bronzes by artists such as Frederic Remington, Alexander Phiminster Proctor, Paul Manship, Harriet Whitney Frishmuth,  and Anna Hyatt Huntington.