ANN: Film screening – Citizen Lane, Thursday, September 5, 2019 7 p.m. Museum Lecture Hall, Getty Center, New York

Derbhle Crotty as Lady Augusta Gregory and Tom Vaughan-Lawlor as Hugh Lane. Film still from Citizen Lane, dir. Thaddeus O’ Sullivan, 2019. 

The Getty Research Institute presents a special screening of Citizen Lane (2019), a portrait of Irish collector of modern art, Hugh Lane. Set in Dublin in the early 20th century, the film richly narrates the story of Lane’s establishment of the first public modern art gallery, his untimely death, and contested will. 

Morna O’Neill, associate professor of 18th- and 19th- century European art at Wake Forest University and author of Hugh Lane: The Art Market and the Art Museum, 1893– 1915, will introduce the film and host a Q & A with the audience following the screening. 

This film by Soho Moon Pictures and Mammoth Films is a co-production with Umedia in association with the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland RTÉ Bord Scannán na hÉireann / the Irish Film Board, and Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane. 

Tickets and Parking Admission to this event is free, but a ticket is required to attend. Reserve tickets online at https://www.getty.edu/visit/cal/events/ ev_2832.html. Seating for free events is on a first-come, first- served basis; please check in at least 15 minutes prior to the event. Parking is $20, but $15 after 3 p.m. 

Concessions An assortment of concessions will be available for purchase outside the Museum Lecture Hall prior to the event. Please note that food and drink are not permitted inside the lecture hall. 

How to Get Here The Getty Center is located at 1200 Getty Center Drive in Los Angeles, California, approximately 12 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. See Admission, Hours, Location for maps and driving directions. 

The Getty Research Institute is a program of the J. Paul Getty Trust. Other programs of the Trust include the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Conservation Institute, and the Getty Foundation.