Abstract painting of a sawmill surrounded by dark green landscape and distant dark gray mountains — Egon Schiele. Sawmill (detail), 1913. Oil on canvas. Kallir Family Collection, promised gift to Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Opening Celebration: Timber!

Join us as we celebrate the opening of “Timber! Art and Woodwork at the Fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.” The centerpiece of the exhibition, Egon Schiele’s rarely seen masterpiece Sawmill, features a pile of wood on the verge of collapse. The mill can be seen as a symbol of the empire, which in 1913 was in a precarious state.

The exhibition demonstrates two potential outcomes for the timber: a bridge, as in Schiele’s painting, or wooden furniture. See how the latter may have been created through an artist demonstration. Enjoy Viennese music and a screening of the 1934 film Maskerade.

Demonstration: Woodturning with Cooper Ternes, 11 a.m.–2 p.m.

Performances: Mill City Quartet, 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Film Screening: Maskerade (1934), 2 p.m. (free ticket required; tickets available July 30)

_{Egon Schiele. Sawmill (detail), 1913. Oil on canvas. Kallir Family Collection, promised gift to Los Angeles County Museum of Art}