Duncan Phillips’s Support of Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko
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One of 45 upcoming events at The Phillips Collection, and 4,053 across Washington.
The Phillips Collection’s Living Room is a series of intimate conversations featuring artists, authors, curators, collectors, and museum professionals. These programs offer rare opportunities to engage in discussions that connect the museum’s collection with broader dialogues. As part of a series of programs supporting Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko: By the Sea, join Renée Maurer, Associate Curator, for a talk examining how the exhibition brings to life the friendship and creative dialogue among the three artists, and Duncan Phillips’s encouragement of their work. As The Phillips Collection’s associate curator, Renée Maurer has curated, co-curated, and managed exhibitions including Timeless Mucha: The Magic of Line (2025); Breaking it Down: Conversations from the Vault (2024); Up Close with Paul Cezanne (2024); Pour Tear Carve: Material Possibilities in the Collection (2023); Frank Stewart’s Nexus (2023); Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful (2021); Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the Modernist Tradition (2020); A Modern Vision: European Masterworks from The Phillips Collection and its tour (2017-2020); Toulouse-Lautrec Illustrates the Belle Époque (2017); Gauguin to Picasso: Masterworks from Switzerland, the Staechelin & Im Obersteg Collections (2016); American Moments: Photographs from The Phillips Collection (2015); Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life: 1928-1945 (2013); Jasper Johns: Variations on a Theme (2012). She has also developed focused installations featuring the art of Sam Gilliam, William Christenberry, and Morris Louis. Previously, Maurer was a research assistant at the National Gallery of Art. If you would like to request an accessibility service, please email [email protected] in advance of your visit. Providing two weeks’ notice is recommended, though not required. Full efforts will be made to accommodate requests. For more information, please review our visitor guidelines. Inside the Phillips Archive Registration Open / In-Person Registration Open / In-Person Reiki-Inspired Meditation with Natalie Valle Registration Open / Free / Online Help us continue to serve our community by providing free events.
