Lectures and Extramural Teaching
Maurice de Sausmarez and Leeds
The Birth of the University's Department of Fine Art
Gregory Fellowships
The University Art Collection
Exhibitions and Societies
Makerere College School of Art
Lectures and Extramural Teaching
Broadcasting
Basic Design
Painting
Alongside of his work at the University, de Sausmarez also lectured and taught extensively throughout the region. He organised and chaired several lecture series both for students and the public, giving many of the lectures himself and helping to broaden interest in the study of art. These included lectures at Graves Art Gallery in Sheffield, a series of public lectures on nineteenth-century French painting at Leeds College of Art and a weekend course on sculpture at Grantley Hall Adult College in Ripon.
During his time in Leeds de Sausmarez also taught several courses in Scarborough for North Riding Education Committee. These included Looking at Pictures, taught alongside Sir Herbert Read and Carel Weight, Painting for Amateurs and several residential summer schools in Painting and Drawing.
In 1951, marking the 100-year anniversary of the Great Exhibition of 1851 and in connection with the Festival of Britain, de Sausmarez taught a course of ten university extension lectures at Leeds. The course consisted of 10 lectures on the visual arts in England and the shifts and influences they had been subject to in the previous 100 years. The course leaflet, seen here, lists the topics covered including the social changes affecting the status of the artist, Victorian documentary paintings, patronage of the arts, art of the interwar period, and the Great Exhibition itself.
In 1959, after resigning from his post at the University of Leeds the previous year, de Sausmarez gave two lectures at Leeds City Art Gallery to celebrate the friendship and inspiration he had found within the creative community of the city. One of his lectures, on Georges Seurat, was accompanied by an article on the artist, published in the that year’s Leeds Arts Calendar.
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