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Minstrelsy “Uncorked”: Thomas Eakins’ Empathetic Realism
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Calendar: Art History and Archaeology
Date: Wednesday 11/4/2009
2 Week(s) 6 Day(s) ago
Time: 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Notes: National Gallery of Art
Center for Advanced Study
In the Visual Arts

Wyeth Lecture in American Art

"Minstrelsy 'Uncorked': Thomas Eakins’ Empathetic Realism"
By: Richard J. Powell
      Duke University

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 4:30 pm
East Building Auditorium

Reception to follow
Fourth Street and Constitution Avenue NW
Washington



Richard J. Powell is the John Spencer Bassett Professor of art and art
history and professor of African and African American studies at Duke
University. He received his BA from Morehouse College; an MFA from
Howard University (1977); and an MA (1982) in Afro-American studies, an
MPhil (1984), and a PhD (1988) in history of art, all from Yale
Univer-sity. He has taught at University of Hartford (1982), Middlebury
College (1986), and at Duke University, where he was appointed assistant
professor (1989 – 1992), associate professor (1992 – 1998), and full
professor (1998 – ). In addition, he has served as guest curator and
consultant at the Field Museum of Natural History (1983 – 1984) and
director of programs at the Washington Project for the Arts (1987 –
1989). His honors and awards include the Ednah Root Visiting Curatorship
in American Art, de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(1994); a Du Bois Insti-tute for Afro-American Research fellowship,
Harvard University (1992 – 1993); and a National Endowment for the
Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers (1992 – 1993). Recently,
he was selected as editor in chief of /The Art Bulletin /(2007 – 2010).

Professor Powell’s books include /Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black
Portraiture /(2008), /Black Art: A Cultural History /(2002; revised and
expanded edition of /Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century /[1997]),
/Jacob Lawrence /(1992), and /Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H.
Johnson /(1991). In addition he has organized numerous exhibitions for
which he has written catalogues, such as /Circle Dance: The Art of John
T. Scott /(2005), /Beauford Delaney: The Color Yellow /(2002), /To
Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges and
Universities /(1999), /Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem
Renaissance /(1997), /The Blues Aesthetic: Black Culture and Modernism
/(1989), /From the Potomac to the Anacostia: Art and Ideology in the
Washington Area /(1989), and /James Lesesne Wells: Sixty Years in Art
/(1986).

/This lecture is supported by the Wyeth Foundation for American Art./

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