A virtual conversation Frank Stewart and Chester Higgins, Jr.
November 9, 2022 at 6:30 pm ET
In celebration of the launch of the Romare Bearden Papers on the Digital Archives, the WPI hosted a webinar featuring renowned photographers Frank Stewart and Chester Higgins, Jr., in a conversation moderated by Dalila Scruggs, Curator of Photography and Prints at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Photographers on Bearden Read More »
Johns Scholar Roberta Bernstein Awarded French Legion of Honor October 25, 2022
JOHNS SCHOLAR ROBERTA BERNSTEIN AWARDED FRENCH LEGION OF HONOR Read More »
The Romare Bearden Papers
October 12, 2022
The WPI is pleased to announce the inaugural release of materials in the Romare Bearden Papers (1900–2008, bulk 1940–1988).
Introducing The Romare Bearden Papers Read More »
A Pop Places webinar
October 11, 2022
Leo Castelli established his gallery’s direction when it opened in the late 1950s by exhibiting the work of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. Their art marked a shift away from the prevailing mode of abstract expressionism by employing objects and signs from the everyday environment, popular culture, and the mass media. By the mid-1960s the Castelli Gallery was considered among the most influential “Pop Places,” exhibiting works by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and James Rosenquist along with that of Johns and Rauschenberg. Bernstein, who frequented the Castelli gallery after arriving in New York in 1966 as an art history graduate student examines the origins of the galley as center for the various directions of Pop, including her personal experiences.
The Role of the Leo Castelli Gallery in the Advent of ‘Pop Art’ Read More »
A Pop Places webinar
October 4, 2022
Richard (Dick) Bellamy opened the Green Gallery on West 57th street in Fall 1960. The gallery’s first eighteen months experienced paltry sales. However, with the explosive arrival of Pop art in America, the gallery became a go-to-source for the “new” art. Tom Wesselmann’s gallery debut featured his Great American Nude and Still Life paintings that were swiftly snatched up by committed collectors as they vied for the artist’s latest artworks. This webinar draws on the author’s research for the forthcoming monograph devoted to the stylistic development and reception of Wesselmann’s most famous body of work, the Great American Nude series (1961–1969/73).
Two Men from Cincinnati: Tom Wesselmann’s 1962 Debut at The Green Gallery Read More »
A Pop Places webinar
September 27, 2022
In the early 1960s, James Rosenquist was in all the right places. His first Pop art canvases were made at a studio on Coenties Slip, his first show at Green Gallery sold out in 1962, and Rosenquist was included in all the earliest Pop art shows in NYC and beyond. In 1964–65, energy was building around his latest and largest work to date, F-111.
Pop Art Goes Viral: From New York City to Europe, Rosenquist’s F-111 Takes Flight Read More »
