Lunchtime Curator Talk | Jane!

Join Patrick R. Crowley, Assistant Curator of European Art, on this special highlights tour of Jane! Jane! celebrates the aesthetic and affective excesses of Jane Stanford, the Gilded Age founder and matriarch of Stanford University. Bringing together precious keepsakes, souvenirs, archaeological detritus, and spooky messages from beyond the grave, the exhibition reveals the campy underside of a familiar biography and perhaps an even more familiar murder mystery. From her elegant French gowns to a colossal painting of her jewels, from the Egyptian artifacts she acquired for her fledgling museum to a Hawaiian skirt she may or may not have purchased immediately before her suspicious death, Jane! presents various idiosyncratic artifacts of Stanford lore—many shown for the very first time, and very likely for the last. RSVP here. ________ Parking Paid visitor parking is available along Lomita Drive as well as on the first floor of the Roth Way Garage Structure, located at the corner of Campus Drive West and Roth Way at 345 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305. From the Palo Alto Caltrain station, the Cantor Arts Center is about a 20-minute walk or there the free Marguerite shuttle will bring you to campus via the Y or X lines. Disability parking is located along Lomita Drive near the main entrance of the Cantor Arts Center. Additional disability parking is located on Museum Way and in Parking Structure 1 (Roth Way & Campus Drive). Please click here to view the disability parking and access points. ________ Accessibility Information or Requests Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University is committed to ensuring our programs are accessible to everyone. To request access information and/or accommodations for this event, please complete this form at least one week prior to the event: museum.stanford.edu/access. For questions, please contact disability.access@stanford.eduor fukunaga@stanford.edu. ---------- Image: Napoleon T. Sarony, Portrait of Jane Lathrop Stanford, 1871. Photo