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"Sargent and the Sea": A Symposium
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Calendar: Art History and Archaeology
Date: Saturday 11/7/2009
2 Week(s) 3 Day(s) ago
Time: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
URL: http://www.corcoran.org/exhibitions/sargent/index.html
Notes: */Sargent and the Sea/**: A Symposium
*Saturday, November 7, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Opening reception and exhibition viewing for registered participants
Friday, November 6, 6-8 p.m.

In conjunction with its groundbreaking exhibition /Sargent and the Sea/,
the Corcoran Gallery of Art presents a scholarly symposium featuring
presentations by seven internationally-recognized scholars on themes
related to the exhibition.

Presentations:

Opening Remarks
*Sarah Cash*, bechhoefer curator of American art, Corcoran Gallery of Art

/Sargent and the Paris Art Scene/
*Richard Ormond*, project director, John Singer Sargent Catalogue Raisonné

/Unbridled Enthusiasm: Sargent and European Marine Painting in the 1870s /
*Nancy Locke*, associate professor of art history, The Pennsylvania
State University

/Sargent's "Traveling Culture": Transatlantic Crossings, Expatriate
Experience, and the Workings of a Cosmopolitan Aestheticism/
*Peter Gibian*, professor of English, McGill University

/To Finistère By Way of Field and Strand/
*Maureen C. O'Brien*, curator of painting and sculpture, Museum of Art,
Rhode Island School of Design

/The Lure of the South/
*Elaine Kilmurray*, co-author and research director, John Singer Sargent
Catalogue Raisonné

/Describing is Descending: Moby-Dick and Art History/
*Alexander Nemerov*, professor and chair of the history of art
department, Yale University

In /Sargent and the Sea/, the Corcoran Gallery of Art brings together
for the first time more than eighty paintings, watercolors, and drawings
depicting seascapes and coastal scenes from the early career of John
Singer Sargent (1856-1925), the pre-eminent American expatriate painter
of the late nineteenth century.

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