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Book Club
Monthly meetings on the first Wednesdays of each month 9:30 - 10:30 AM PST at the Triton Museum of Art. (doors open at 9:00 a.m. for coffee and donuts; presentation begins at 9:30 a.m.)
We invite you to read selected novels about art or famous artists before we meet, and then join us on the first Wednesday morning of each month, for an art history presentation about that month’s novel, the portrayed artist, and related art, as presented by Triton Museum Executive Director Preston Metcalf and Triton Museum Associate Curator Vanessa Callanta. Learn how the novel does — or doesn’t — comport to the actual history of its subject, and hear more about the artwork and the artists’ times in which they were created.
Admission to the monthly book club art history lectures is free for Triton Museum of Art Members ($5 donation requested for non-members), and all are welcome, whether you have actually read the book or not. Coffee and pastries will be served.
Discussions are held safely distanced & in person at the Triton Museum of Art Free for TMA members, $5 suggested donation for non-members
Take a look at what we'll be reading for 2025!
This Upcoming Month's Book:
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
December 3rd, 2025
In the aftermath of WWI, English writer and philologist, J.R.R. Tolkien created a series of literary masterworks, including The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, in which he created imagined worlds as commentary on the state of war-torn humanity, and thus became the father of modern fantasy.
Becoming one of the best selling series of books ever, Tolkien’s imagined worlds not only redefined fantasy literature, but became the inspiration for a new wave of visual fantasy artists for the next hundred years.
In this lecture, Triton Curator Vanessa Callanta will show us the rise of Fantasy art inspired by Tolkien, and expanded upon by artists such as Frank Frazetta, Boris Vallejo, and many others in the 20th, and now 21st Centuries.
