The eminent American art historian John Wilmerding will deliver a subscription lecture series – Masters of Contemporary American Realism – at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, on three consecutive Tuesday evenings, beginning January 29. He will consider the technical inventiveness and imaginative variety of the American artists Richard Estes, Robert Indiana, and Tom Wesselmann, situating their later careers within the broader context of American and modern art.
January 29, 6:00 p.m.
Richard Estes: Streetscapes and Landscapes, the Abstraction of Reality
February 5, 6:00 p.m.
Robert Indiana: Numbers and Letters as the Voyage of Life
February 12, 6:00 p.m.
Tom Wesselmann: Color and Line, the Nude with Flowers and Landscape
Tickets are available in person at the Museum's Great Hall Box Office, through www.metmuseum.org/tickets, or by calling 212-570-3949 (single lecture $23; three-lecture series $60).
John Wilmerding is Emeritus Professor of American Art at Princeton University and adjunct curator in the Princeton University Art Museum. He is also an advisor to the planned Crystal Bridges—Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. A noted scholar of American art and cultural studies, he is the author of monographs on Fitz Henry Lane, John F. Peto, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Eakins. Most recently, he has written on Richard Estes (Rizzoli, 2006) and Robert Indiana (Rizzoli, 2006). His monograph on Tom Wesselmann is forthcoming in 2008.
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January 28, 2008
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