Centuries of Art @ Your Library - From Henri to Hopper: American Realist Painters in the Early 20th Century December 4, 2006

"From Henri to Hopper: American Realist Painters in the Early 20th Century," is the title of a free illustrated lecture on Monday, December 4 at 7:30 p.m. at the Williamsburg Library Theatre, 515 Scotland Street. The program is part of the free lecture series, "Centuries of Art @ Your Library," sponsored by This Century Gallery in partnership with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and Williamsburg Regional Library. Art Historian Elizabeth O'Leary from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts will present the lecture. Reservations are not needed for this free program. For more information, contact the library at (757) 259-4070.

Aligned with the Realism of earlier French artists such as Courbet and Manet, Robert Henri and a close association of American painters strove to create images of their own time and place. Themes like impoverished city children or glimpses through night windows jarred the sensibilities of those used to more genteel scenes. "Instead of painting powder puffs," John Sloan noted, "we painted brooms." The next generation, including George Bellows and Edward Hopper, would take the Realist tradition into new realms.

This series is made possible through This Century Art Gallery's partnership program with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA). It has been organized by the Office of Statewide Partnerships of the VMFA and is supported by the Paul Mellon Endowment.

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