Reframing American Art: Selections From The Roy R. Neuberger Collection
The new permanent installation at the
Neuberger Museum of Art, from the Roy R. Neuberger collection,
presents an encyclopedic history of North American art from the turn
of the century to the mid-1960s. It has been organized to tell three
distinct but related stories set against a larger social-political
backdrop: the evolution of realist practices through World War II
(“American Scene Painting”); the relationship of U.S. artists to
their peers in Europe and their first efforts to define a home-grown
form of abstraction (“Early American Modernism”); and the critically
heralded invention of abstract expressionism in the period after
World War II (“Post-War Abstraction”).
Join the director of the
Neuberger Museum, Thom Collins, as he lectures and leads the group
on a tour of the exhibit as well as of paintings not usually seen
that are in storage at the museum.
This course has been underwritten by a
donation from Jacqueline Adler Walker.
THOM COLLINS, PhD, director of
the Neuberger Museum, was previously director of the Contemporary
Museum in Baltimore. He taught at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, the
University of Cincinnati, the University of Washington, and
Northwestern University.
Date/Time:
Three Wednesdays, starting 4/16 (no
class 4/23); 10-11:30 am
Location:
Neuberger Museum, Purchase College,
735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, NY
Cost:
$90 (includes a 1 year membership /
membership renewal)
The new permanent installation at the
Neuberger Museum of Art, from the Roy R. Neuberger collection,
presents an encyclopedic history of North American art from the turn
of the century to the mid-1960s. It has been organized to tell three
distinct but related stories set against a larger social-political
backdrop: the evolution of realist practices through World War II
(“American Scene Painting”); the relationship of U.S. artists to
their peers in Europe and their first efforts to define a home-grown
form of abstraction (“Early American Modernism”); and the critically
heralded invention of abstract expressionism in the period after
World War II (“Post-War Abstraction”).