SPECULATION & FRENZY: American Art & Its Market From 1826 to Today with SHERI PASQUARELLA

Sheri Pasquarella, photo by Sangwoo Suh Tickets General Ticket: $10 Members: Free, RSVP Required RESERVE TICKETS NOW! As part of This Land: Considering the American Landscape, The Church presents a talk with Executive Director Sheri Pasquarella exploring the origins of American art, artists, and the art market beginning with the Hudson River School. Drawing connections between the exhibition's 19th-century paintings and contemporary artists working today, the lecture will examine how ideas about landscape, nationhood, community, and value have shaped American art for nearly two centuries. This Land juxtaposes works from the Hudson River School—America's first major art movement—with contemporary artists whose practices both draw upon and challenge enduring notions of the American landscape. Less widely known is that this same period also witnessed the emergence of the American art market, the founding of some of the nation's earliest museums and art schools, and the… View Source