SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 2024
Symposium: 12:30–4:30 pm
in Kemper Auditorium
Reception: 4:30–5:30 pm
at the Addison Gallery of American Art
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
The Addison’s founding history provides a snapshot into the state—and stakes—of American art in the 1920s and 30s. Defining American Art: Then and Now is a two-part symposium that takes the Addison’s own formation as a case study to track evolving notions of American art over the last century, with special attention to questions of citizenship and national identity as they inform the field today. A reception in the Addison Gallery will follow the symposium.
This program is part of Lunder Institute@, co-presented by the Lunder Institute for American Art, an initiative of the Colby Museum of Art.
Lunder Institute@ brings together artists and leaders of prominent American art museums to look critically at American art, its history, its future, and its evolution, and to engage publicly with a single question: What is the state of American art?
Lunder Institute@ The Addison Gallery was made possible through the support and partnership of the Lunder Institute for American Art, the Colby College Museum of Art.
Image: Winslow Homer, The West Wind (detail), 1891, oil on canvas, 30 x 44 inches, gift of anonymous donor, 1928.24
