Lecture: The American Ashcan Painters w/ William Perthes
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The American Ashcan Painterswith William PerthesWednesday October 16
6:00 - 7:30 PM
In the early decades of the twentieth century a group of young American artists turned their attention to the rapidly evolving urban landscape of cities like Philadelphia and New York. They filled their paintings with scenes of cafes, saloons, elevated street cars, skyscrapers, and bustling streets filled with immigrant families. They were not alone in their fascination with the new American city. Also inspired by these scenes were writers like Walt Whittman and John Dos Passos, Charley Chaplin in films like City Lights and Modern Times, W.C. Fields on the vaudeville stage, and heard in music like George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. All reflect the broader interest in themes of an evolving America. Join us to explore this moment of rapid change in the United States through the paintings of Robert Henri, William Glackens, George Bellows, Edward Hopper and others.
George Bellows, The Lone Tenement, 1909, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
William Perthes is an educator, author, and curator. He is the Bernard C. Watson Director of Adult Education at the Barnes Foundation. Bill has a background in philosophy and art history and is the author of “The Barnes Method” included in the recently published The Barnes: Then and Now. Much of Bill's work focuses on how experiences with works of art, both short and long term, can impact and inform fields as varied as business, medicine, law enforcement. and restorative justice. Bill is the curator of Faces of Resilience a traveling exhibition of original works of art created by currently and formerly incarcerated artists at the State Correctional Institute Phoenix. In addition, his scholarship has focused on American Modernism with a special concentration on the Abstract Expressionist painter Robert Motherwell. He is the former Director of Education for the Violette de Mazia Foundation.
Instructor
William Perthes