Guest Lecture & Reception
Join us on Saturday, April 12 at 4 pm for “In the Studios of Paris: American Art Students at the French Academies, 1876–1900,” a guest lecture by Mark D. Mitchell, Holcombe T. Green Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture at Yale University Art Gallery. A wine & beer reception will follow in our on-campus art gallery, with an opportunity to view our newest exhibition, True to Form: Academic Figure Studies from the Late 19th to Early 20th Centuries.
During the late nineteenth century, nearly every young American artist’s professional ambitions led straight to Paris. In the wake of the Franco-Prussian War and America’s Centennial, Paris emerged as the primary artistic training ground of Europe and a generation of American students came of age there. Focused on the careers of leading artists of the era, including Kenyon Cox, Frederick MacMonnies, John Singer Sargent, and Julian Alden Weir, this talk will explore what budding American artists found when they arrived in Paris, what being an American art student abroad meant at the time, and how the experience shaped their ideas of art.
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- Each $30 ticket includes the lecture, reception, and exhibition viewing.
- $15 of each ticket is a tax-deductible donation supporting Lyme Academy’s Chauncey-Stillman Exhibition Program and future exhibitions. Your receipt serves as your record.
Julian Alden Weir (American, 1852–1919), Study of a Male Nude Leaning on a Staff, 1876, oil on canvas, 31 1/2 × 25 1/2 inches (80 × 64.8 cm), Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of Julian Alden Weir, 1914.13
