MCCC Professor and Artist Mel Leipzig to Speak About Picasso's Most Famous Painting Feb. 26 1/29/08 Mel Leipzig, MCCC professor of art and art history, will present a lecture entitled: "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and Picasso" on Tuesday, Feb. 26 at 12 noon. The event is presented free to the public as part of Mercer's Distinguished Lecture Series and will be held on the college's West Windsor campus in the Communications Building, CM107, 1200 Old Trenton Road. In a slide presentation, Leipzig will discuss works by Pablo Picasso, with a special focus on "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907). This painting revolutionized the art world and is considered by many to be the most significant work of the 20th century because of its pivotal role in the development of modern art and Cubism. The painting is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. This year marks its 100th anniversary. Professor Mel Leipzig Prof. Leipzig has participated in numerous one-man and group shows from the East Coast to Moscow. His paintings are often on display at the Gallery Henoch in New York City. His works are included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Jersey State Museum, the Morris Museum, the Noyes Museum, the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum at Rutgers, the Jersey City Museum, and the Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania. He received a Fulbright Grant to Paris and four grants for painting from the New Jersey Council on the Arts. He was the first recipient of the Distinguished Teacher Award at Mercer in 1980, and one of the last individual artists to receive a grant, in 1996, from the National Endowment for the Arts. He studied at Cooper Union, Yale University and Pratt Institute, where he earned his M.F.A. To learn about future lectures, visit "Distinguished Lecture Series" here. Directions to MCCC Return to What's New

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