Portraits

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French 1841 - 1919)
Portrait of Mademoiselle Legrand, circa 1875
Oil on canvas
32 x 23 1/2 inches

Philadelphia Museum of Art

CCS's budding artists will be studying and making portraits this Fall. This process will entail students looking at and discussing qualities of well-known portraits, working with a variety of media and techniques and eventually creating a self-portrait to display in the CCS Hallway Gallery. Moms and Dads will want to be on the look out for sales on picture frames this year.

Anticipating a New School Year

Painting by Sherree Valentine-Daines

It's almost time to exchange our swimsuits and summer gear for new school clothes, books, and more disciplined schedules. There is always something exhilarating with these cyclical changes for as one season slips away we embrace the newness of the next. 

I'm looking forward to another wonderful, heARTful year at Christ Church School. 

-Ms. Evans

Must See Exhibit Coming to the Kimball Art Museum in March

The Age of Impressionism: Great French Paintings from the Clark, March 11–June 17, 2012

The Kimbell Art Museum, in Ft. Worth, Texas, presents the first-ever international touring exhibition of masterpieces from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

The Clark is best known for its holdings in French Impressionist painting, which include over thirty works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The seventy-three paintings in the exhibition include twenty-one by Renoir, along with four by Edgar Degas, two by Edouard Manet, six by Claude Monet, two by Berthe Morisot, seven by Camille Pissarro, and four by Alfred Sisley. Accompanying these will be works by other prominent French painters of the period, including William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Camille Corot, Paul Gauguin, Jean-Léon Gérome, Jacques-Joseph Tissot, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Many are celebrated masterpieces that visitors will recognize from reproductions even if they have never made the pilgrimage to Williamstown to see them in the flesh.

The exhibition is touring for a period of three years (2011–14) and will be shown at major venues in Italy, France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, and China. The Kimbell is its only American venue.

Sweet!

It's going to be 106 today...why not cool off with some Gogo's Frozen Yogurt and Cupcakes and support CCS at the same time? We will earn 10% of ALL SALES! Tell all your friends to meet you there, or better yet, just round them all up and take them with you!!!!! Spirit night is from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday! See you there!

Gogo's is located at 2668 South 31st St., Temple, TX 76504 next to Schlotzky's.

Art Minute

The Sleeping Christ Child

Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato
Born: August 25, 1609 – Died: August 8, 1685

For 2009, the USPS chose Sassoferrato’s Madonna and Sleeping Child as the image for its annual Christmas stamp.

Prayer for School Children

Autumn, painted in 1907 by Marianne von Werefkin, a Russian expressionist painter

Father of all mercies
We ask that you would bless
the youngest and littlest of learners,
the most helpless and powerless of persons,
with Your infinite and loving mercy,
granting them the strength to learn, concentrate,
and act in love towards
their teachers and fellow students.
We also ask that You would watch over them,
at home and at school
and give them proper direction
so that they may learn
of Your wonderful virtues.
We ask this in the name of Your Son, Jesus Christ. Amen