Fine Arts Museums docent Marsha Holm will give a presentation on the Legion of Honor exhibit: The Cult of Beauty: The Victorian Avant-Garde, 1860–1900. This is the first major exhibition to explore the creativity of the British Aesthetic Movement, tracing the evolution of this movement from a small circle of progressive artists and poets, through the achievements of innovative painters and architects, to its broad impact on fashion and the middle-class home. The superb artworks on view encompass the manifold forms of Victorian material culture: the traditional high art of painting, fashionable trends in architecture & interior decoration, handmade and manufactured furnishings for the “artistic” home, art photography and the new modes of dress.
Marsha Holm has been a docent with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco since 1979. In addition to giving tours in all areas of the museums’ collections, she has served in several administrative capacities. She has a broad background in many facets of art history.
