Key	Imgs	Short Description
2011_DC_Shockey_110308	43	Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Talk: Hugh Shockey (Washington Resigning His Commission: A History of Damage and Repair) Washington Resigning His Commission: A History of Damage and Repair: Take a look into the conservation of Ferdinand Pettrich’s 1841 larger-than-life statue of George Washington with conservator Hugh Shockey. See actual conservation records, hear about an ongoing problem with the sculpture, and learn...
2011_DC_Mineta_110910	62	Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Talk: Norman Mineta In the weekly talk, a National Portrait Gallery staff member or guest speaker offers insight into the person in the selected portrait. Today, Norman Mineta, secretary of transportation on September 11, 2001, discusses his life and the events of 9/11. Mineta's portrait is on view at the National...
2009_DC_Wilson_090408	27	Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Talk: Richard Guy Wilson ("Thomas Jefferson, Robert Mills, & The Creation of a National Architecture") Martin Sullivan, Director, National Portrait Gallery and Mallory Walker, Chair, National Portrait Gallery Commission Welcome you to a lecture by Richard Guy Wilson on Thomas Jefferson, Robert Mills, and The Creation of a National Architecture Richard Guy Wilson holds the Commonwealth Professor's...
2007_DC_OConnor_071029	19	Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Talk: Sandra Day O'Connor (Living Self-Portrait) From her humble beginnings, with no electricity or running water on her family’s Lazy B Ranch in southeastern Arizona, to graduating third in her class at Stanford University Law School, Sandra Day O’Connor overcame tremendous adversity in the early years of her career to rise straight to the top. In...
2012_DC_Jordan_120409	21	Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Talk: Vernon Jordan (Living Self-Portrait) Join the National Portrait Gallery for an evening event. A living self-portrait with Vernon Jordan, the civil rights leader, activist, lawyer, business executive and influential political figure. Marc Pachter, former Portrait Gallery director and now acting director of the National Museum of American...
2012_DC_SIPG_Tour_120407	37	Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Tour: Adam Goodheart Civil War tour for Washington College
2018_DC_Roberts_180329	57	Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Eldredge Prize: Jennifer L. Roberts ("The Moiré Effect: Print and Interference") Jennifer L. Roberts, the Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University, was awarded the 2017 Charles C. Eldredge Prize for her book, Transporting Visions: The Movement of Images in Early America. Join her for a talk entitled “The Moiré Effect: Print and Interference.”
2011_DC_Wilson_111110	20	Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Eldredge Prize: Kristina Wilson ("MoMA and the Art of the Exhibition: 1924-1934") Join Kristina Wilson, associate professor of art history at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts and winner of the museum's 2011 Charles C. Eldredge Prize for distinguished scholarship, for a discussion on her book The Modern Eye: Stieglitz, MoMA, and the Art of the Exhibition, 1925-1934 (Yale...
2011_DC_Bennett_110405	82	Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Talk: Bob Bennett (Collectors' Roundtable) Collectors' Roundtable with Senator Bob Bennett This annual series provides insight and invaluable advice on collecting art from museum directors, curators, collectors, art dealers, and consultants. This evening, Senator Bob Bennett, collector, Utah and Washington, D.C., presents "Collecting...
2011_DC_Tanner_110121	71	Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Talk: Brian Baade & Amber Kerr-Allison ("Painting Techniques of Henry Ossawa Tanner") Painting Techniques of Henry Ossawa Tanner: Conservators Amber Kerr-Allison and Brian Baade present findings of their recent study and analysis of six of Tanner’s works in the permanent collection, including the newly conserved Flight into Egypt. Learn how Tanner’s documented painting recipe, preserved...
2011_DC_Perry_110714	18	Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Talk: Claire Perry ("Great American Experiment") The Great American Experiment: The Great American Hall of Wonders exhibition curator Claire Perry discusses the idea of the United States as a “great experiment” and how inventive energies in art, science, and technology shaped the nation during the 19th century. Exploring 19th-century citizens’ belief...
2013_DC_Blight_130405	130	Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Talk: David Blight ("From Days of Mourning to Days of Jubilee?") From Days of Mourning to Days of Jubilee? Frederick Douglass and the Meaning of The Civil War Talk with David W. Blight Yale University professor and Civil War scholar David W. Blight shares his analysis of the impact of the Civil War on the ideas and psyche of Frederick Douglass.
2009_DC_Tilt_091031	132	Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Talk: David Silverman ("Tilt!") Tilt! Learn everything you ever wanted to know about pinball machines with collector and historian David Silverman. Then join us in the courtyard to test your skills on his one-of-a-kind pinball machines. Lecture at 3 p.m., game playing follows.
2013_DC_Ramos_131025	88	Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Talk: E. Carmen Ramos ("What Is Latino About American Art?") Our America exhibition curator, E. Carmen Ramos, examines how Latino artists working since the mid-twentieth century have participated in American art movements and recalibrated key themes in American art.
2018_DC_Marsh_181024	8	Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Talk: Joanna Marsh (Conversation Pieces) SAAM -- Conversation Pieces Want to deepen your understanding and appreciation of contemporary art? Join Joanna Marsh, senior curator of contemporary interpretation, for this popular ongoing series of gallery talks. Marsh uses a single artwork from the museum’s collection to spark conversation and...
2010_DC_Gay_Art_101030	13	Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Talk: Jonathan D. Katz ("Gay Art before Gay Liberation") Gay Art before Gay Liberation: George Bellows, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jasper Johns: Jonathan D. Katz, co-curator of the exhibition Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, discusses the nature of gay art before the advent of gay politics through the work of three very different...
2011_DC_Talasek_110209	30	Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Talk: J.D. Talasek (Art and Science Lecture Series) Art and Science Lecture Series: J.D. Talasek: In conjunction with the exhibition Alexis Rockman: A Fable for Tomorrow, the American Art Museum presents a lecture series that places the science of climate change within a cultural context. The series invites leading environmental scientists to discuss...
2012_DC_Ater_120427	32	Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Talk: Renée Ater ("Insight and Inspiration for 20th-Century African American Art") Insight and Inspiration for 20th-Century African American Art: Shaped by social and political movements of the 20th century, African American artists often affirmed their experiences, communities, and personal histories in their works. Renée Ater, University of Maryland associate professor of art...
2011_DC_BobDay_110421	92	Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Talk: Robert Day ("An Evening with...") An Evening with Robert Day: Join us for an unforgettable evening with Robert Day, Washington College’s professor of English, emeritus, as he discusses his travels around the world in a talk entitled “Bar Art: John Sloan’s McSorley’s Old Ale House Paintings, a Vargas Girl behind the Bar at Ruby Red’s in...
2011_DC_Lehrman_110510	69	Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Talk: Robert Lehrman (Collectors' Roundtable) Collectors' Roundtable with Robert Lehrman This annual series provides insight and invaluable advice on collecting art from museum directors, curators, collectors, art dealers, and consultants. This evening, collector Robert Lehrman (Washington, D.C.) presents "Secrets of the Art World." Robert...
2011_DC_II_111109	65	Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Talk: Steve Crocker and Vinton Cerf ("Conversation with Internet Inventors") Join us for a conversation with Steve Crocker and Vinton Cerf, two of the Internet's founding fathers. Crocker established protocols necessary for the workings of the Internet, and Cerf, a computer scientist, was instrumental in the development of the first commercial email system. They will discuss how...
2011_DC_Monfort_110330	103	Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Talk: Steve Monfort (Art and Science Lecture Series) Art and Science Lecture Series: Steve Monfort In conjunction with the exhibition Alexis Rockman: A Fable for Tomorrow, the American Art Museum presents a lecture series that places the science of climate change within a cultural context. The series invites leading environmental scientists to discuss...
2011_DC_Lovejoy_110223	67	Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Talk: Tom Lovejoy (Art and Science Lecture Series) Art and Science Lecture Series: Tom Lovejoy: In conjunction with the exhibition Alexis Rockman: A Fable for Tomorrow, the American Art Museum presents a lecture series that places the science of climate change within a cultural context. The series invites leading environmental scientists to discuss the...
2010_DC_Mecklenburg_101207	13	Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Talk: Virginia Mecklenburg ("Norman Rockwell and the Movies") Virginia Mecklenburg: Norman Rockwell and the Movies: Senior curator Virginia Mecklenburg shares the results of her research into Rockwell, his work, and the relationships between the artist and the movies. Rockwell was a masterful storyteller who could distill a complex narrative into a single frame...
2015_DC_Kloss_150624	47	Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Talk: William Kloss (Nineteen American Masterworks) The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were a "coming-of-age" period in American art. Gilded Age expatriate artists such as John Singer Sargent and Mary Cassatt pioneered impressionist styles abroad, challenging long-standing practice and rivaling their French counterparts. After 1900,...

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