Lowell Lecture
Gallery Talks: American Stuff: Still Lifes in the 20th Century
Date & Time
April 20, 2016 at 6 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Location
Museum of Fine Arts
465 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115
Driving Directions
Speaker(s)
Samuel Ewing
Presenting Organization
Topics
A vase of flowers, the folds of drapery, a pile of books and shells: all the stuff that clutters the depicted spaces in American still life paintings. This Gallery Talk with Samuel Ewing, graduate student lecturer, will look at a small series of works from across the twentieth century, asking how we might designate such paintings as “American” (aside from the biography of their makers). Are the objects they represent particularly American? Is it the style of painting? Could it be their evocation of an American locale? Or is it something else altogether? These questions and more will be addressed while we look at American still life paintings from the modern period.