Coming of Age: American Portraits from Copley to Warhol with Art Historian Maureen Hickey

August 10, 2017 @ 5:30 pm EDT - 6:30 pm EDT

Coming of Age: American Portraits from Copley to Warhol
with Art Historian Maureen Hickey
Thursday, August 10
5:30 p.m.

Art is the embodiment of our history, as is reflected in American portraiture through time. Art historian Maureen Hickey will explore the ways in which portraits have revealed the political, religious, and social status of their sitters, as well as the aesthetic preferences of their era. This compelling walk through time will feature such early American artists as Rembrandt Peale, Benjamin West, and Gilbert Stuart; nineteenth century masters John Singer Sargent, Thomas Eakins, and Winslow Homer; Ashcan painters John Sloan, Robert Henri, and George Bellows; and the culture of celebrity inspired by Andy Warhol, whose art is on view. Free for Museum members, or included with Museum admission.

 

Thursday Evening Lecture and Performance Series
Inventing America: Art and Cultural Connections
Thursdays July 6, 13, 20, 27; August 3, 10, 17, 24
5:30 p.m.

Enjoy this engaging series of talks and performances inspired by our current exhibitions and the persuasive power of visual imagery in its many forms. Free for Museum members, or included with Museum admission. Reservations are suggested.

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Land Acknowledgement

It is with gratitude and humility that we acknowledge that we are learning, speaking and gathering on the ancestral homelands of the Mohican people, who are the indigenous peoples of this land on which the Norman Rockwell Museum was built. Despite tremendous hardship in being forced from here, today their community resides in Wisconsin and is known as the Stockbridge-Munsee Community. We pay honor and respect to their ancestors past and present as we commit to building a more inclusive and equitable space for all.

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