Guest lecturer Nancy Siegel, associate professor of art history at Towson University in Maryland, will give a presentation about her research and experience as co-curator of a ground-breaking exhibition currently on view in New York entitled Remember the Ladies: Women of the Hudson River School on Friday, September 10, 2010, from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. at the Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College.
Siegel’s presentation is part of programming in conjunction with the Maier Museum’s current special exhibition, Women and the Maier: Creating Herstory curated by Emily Hanson ’09 which highlights some of America’s most important women artists represented in the permanent collection.
Many art historians consider the Hudson River School to be the first cohesive American art movement. Active in the second half of the nineteenth century, Hudson River School landscape painters are well represented in the College’s permanent collection with masterful works by significant men of the movement: Thomas Cole, Asher Durand, and Thomas Kensett. Siegel’s Remember the Ladies: Women of the Hudson River School is the first known exhibition in the United States to focus solely on the female artists associated with the group. The title of Siegel’s exhibition and presentation is taken from a request by Abigail Adams to John Adams in 1776: “I desire you would Remember the Ladies…if particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion.” Siegel notes, “It is important to recast 19th century American women landscape painters no longer as the exception…but rather as exceptional.”
This event is sponsored by Maier Museum of Art members, and R-MWC alumnae, Howard Perkinson Lawrence ’40 and Nancy Forsyth Walker ’98.
FREE and open to the public. Reception will follow.
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