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April 2024 | Women of the Impressionist Circle: An Ongoing Series Join us for the next events in the series as we continue to celebrate the women artists, collectors, philanthropists, and advisors who shaped the international success of one of the most important movements in art history. More information about the series and recordings of past

March 2024 | New in the Romare Bearden Archives “It is extremely difficult to talk of such a phenomenal person and universal artist in the past tense,” wrote Fabian A. Badejo (Tribute to Romare Bearden), yet so many did. Tributes, obituaries, clippings, condolences, and the program for Romare Bearden’s memorial at St. John the Divine

January 2024 Update to the Tom Wesselmann Digital Corpus The Tom Wesselmann Digital Corpus has published its most recent update, which includes significant works in important private collections. The update also includes substantial research updates to the Wesselmann works in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, which the committee examined in the Fall

November 2023 New Oral Histories: Romare Bearden This month, we will release another edition of our Bearden Oral Histories series featuring Romare Bearden’s biographer, Myron Schwartzman. Schwartzman, Professor Emeritus of English at Baruch College, is the author of the biography Romare Bearden: His Life and Art (1990). Having befriended Bearden in 1978, Schwartzman conducted extensive interviews with the

October 2023 | Archival Releases: Michel and Irma van Gelder Papers (1898–1971)  The WPI is pleased to announce the release of the Michel and Irma van Gelder Papers, a collection of art and business records that document the the van Gelder’s activities as art dealers. The release of this collection sheds light on the complicated history of Michel van Gelder, who catered to

September 2023 Race Matters: Cultural Politics in the 1960s The 1960s was a tumultuous moment in American history, as racial equality movements propelled sweeping changes to the body politic. This webinar series presents new insights into how Bearden and his contemporaries tackled Black subject matter and racial themes in their work. It will also explore how racial concerns