Gallery Associates Sunday Art Lecture Series 2022: Cosmopolitan Impressionisms: Modern Art in the Making

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Helen McNicoll, "In the Tent (detail)," 1914

oil on canvas, 80 × 59.5 cm, Private collection, Toronto photo: Thomas Moore*, with the permission of Katerina Atanassova, curator of the exhibit Canada and Impressionism (National Gallery of Canada). National Gallery of Canada.

“It’s not over till it’s over” as the saying goes. Impressionism (ca. 1860-1886) and Post-Impressionism (ca. 1886-1920) are once again making headlines in the art world with exciting new exhibits and scholarship.

The Gallery Associates’ 2022 Sunday Art Lecture Series contributes to new ways of thinking about how this art movement began to reflect and frame modernity with its four illustrated talks exploring the theme “Cosmopolitan Impressionisms: Modern Art in the Making.” When the term Impressionism comes to mind, we think “French.” But this movement, which ushered in modern art, was more cosmopolitan than that. Through exhibitions, ethnographic museums, private collections, and the presence of foreign students, aspiring artists, and diaspora communities, influences from other cultures such as those of Japan, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas contributed to the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist movements in France and elsewhere. The 2022 Associates Sunday Art Lecture Series explores such cosmopolitan connections, cultural shifts and reconfigurations that contributed dynamically to the making of a richly diverse modern art, including new worldviews that came to mediate the local and the global.

SINGLE TICKETS:

$30 General Admission; $25 Gallery Members and Students

SERIES OF 4 LECTURES: $90 General Admission; $75 Gallery Members and Students (buy series tickets by March 4).

The four lectures will be presented online via Zoom, but we are planning for one or two possible hybrid sessions (Zoom and in-house), COVID regulations permitting. Subscribers will be notified. In all cases, recordings of all lectures will be made available to ticket holders for a limited time.