Lowell Lecture
Curated Conversations: Enterprising Young Artists: American Self-Portraits
Date & Time
Oct. 20, 2019 at 2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Location
Museum of Fine Arts
465 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115
Driving Directions
Speaker(s)
Barbara Martin, Alfond Curator of Education Emerita
Presenting Organization
Topics
For young artists, a self-portrait can act as a statement of mastery. The MFA’s Art of Americas Wing houses a number of striking self-portraits by Bostonians in their 20s. John Greenwood and Polly Thayer hold paintbrushes; Washington Allston and Ellen Day Hale present themselves as transformed by European study and travel. Join Barbara Martin, Alfond Curator of Education Emerita, to consider these intriguing presentations of the self.