David Garrard Lowe to Speak
at Friends of the Library Lecture Series

As part of its ongoing 2016 speaker series, the Friends of the Key West library will be welcoming David Garrard Lowe to the podium at the Key West Theater, 512 Eaton St. on Monday, Feb. 15 at 6:00 p.m. The lecture is open to the public, and admission is free. Doors open at 5:30. Seating is available on a first come, first served basis.

Mr. Lowe is a well-regarded lecturer, cultural historian, and author. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, American Heritage, House & Garden, and City Journal, among other publications. His books include Stanford White’s New York, Lost Chicago, Chicago Interiors, Beaux Arts New York, and Art Deco New York.

A popular speaker with audiences, Mr. Lowe has lectured widely in the United States and Europe, at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian in Washington, the Art Institute of Chicago, the San Diego Museum of Art, the Newport Preservation Society, and the Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach. Aboard ships, he has lectured on the Queen Mary 2, and on cruises in the Mediterranean and the Caribbean. His subjects have ranged from the villas of Andrea Palladio, to the great ocean liners, to Americans in Paris, to Coco Chanel. He has also created words-and-music tributes to both Noel Coward and Cole Porter.

On Feb. 15, Mr. Lowe will be speaking about the brief but brilliant life of Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, one of France’s supreme artists, who was born in 1864 to the Comte and Comtesse de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa in the family château in the south of France. In 1881, Toulouse-Lautrec moved to Paris, where he discovered Montmartre and changed his life. On this hill above the French capital, he mingled with the likes of Van Gough, Picasso, and Matisse. He would become the greatest chronicler of this extraordinary bohemian atmosphere, painting the singers, performers, and ladies of the night in the immortal dance halls of the Moulin Rouge and the Moulin de la Galette.

For more information, go to http://friendsofthekeywestlibrary.org