Public Lecture | Free and open to the public (First come, first-served seating)
What’s in a Self-Portrait: Earlier American Case Studies | by Susan Rather, Ph.D., Meredith and Cornelia Long Chair in Art and Art History at The University of Texas at Austin
Saturday, November 6 at 11 am.
How do self-portraits speak and what are they saying? Susan Rather shares what she learned in researching her book The American School: Painters and Status in the Late Colonial and Early National Era (Yale, 2016), winner of the Smithsonian’s 2018 Eldredge Prize for Outstanding Scholarship in American Art. After touching on self-portraits by such celebrated 18th-century painters as John Singleton Copley and Benjamin West, Rather will focus on the earliest work in the exhibition For America: a self-portrait miniature by Samuel F. B. Morse, future president of the National Academy of Design (and later still, a noted scientist inventor).
Book Signing by Dr. Susan Rather
Saturday, November 6 | 12 pm
Stay after the lecture for an exclusive book signing in front of the Museum Store! The American School: Painters and Status in the Late Colonial and Early National Era (Yale, 2016) is available for purchase online or in-store. Grab your copy online today, select pick up in-store, and we will have it waiting for you on Saturday.
Credit: Walter UferJim, 1918Oil on canvas, 40 ⅛ × 36 ¼ in. National Academy of Design, New York Photo Credit: Image by Google Courtesy American Federation of Arts
