Donald J. Gordon Lectures

Donald J. Gordon Art Fund

The Donald J. Gordon Art Fund was established in 1998 by a gift from his children and their spouses on the occasion of his 70th birthday and 50th anniversary of his graduation from Swarthmore. The fund supports visiting artists.

Past Donald J. Gordon Lectures

• 2021–2022
  2020 in Perspective

• 2021-2022
  Paul S. Briggs: Material Shapes in Clay

• 2017–2018
  Fritz Dietel —  25 Years
• 2016–2017
  Lois Dodd — Windows and Reflections

• 2015–2016
  Gillian Pederson-Krag — Paintings and Etchings
• 2014–2015
  George Nakashima and Mira Nakashima — Keisho/Continuance
• 2013–2014
  Andrew Moore — East/West
• 2012–2013
  Sedrick Huckaby — Hidden in Plain Sight
• 2011–2012
  Emmet Gowin — A Life in Photography
• 2010–2011
  Gregory Halpern, Rochester Institute of Technology
• 2009–2010
  Ying Li — A Survey
• 2008–2009
  Sonya Clark — Combs: Pieces and Parts
• 2007–2008
  Melissa Meyer — Paintings and Works on Paper: 1975–2005
• 2006–2007
  Ron Tarver — What the Eye Doesn't See: Images in Silver and Ink
• 2004–2005
  Joyce Tenneson — A 25-Year Career as an Artist, Author, Photographer, and Educator
  John Moore, University of Pennsylvania — Here and There
• 2002–2003
  Charles Burwell, Joan Curran, Tara Goings, Mary Judge, Stanley Lewis, Ying Li, Scott Noel, Peter Paone, Catherine Redmond, Charles Ritchie, and Stephen Talasnik — Value and Presence: Works on Paper
• 2000–2001
  Philip Pearlstein — The Problems of Being a Realist Artist