Grace Hanselman, curatorial assistant for works on paper, introduces the work of Berenice Abbott, a pioneering documentary photographer known best for her portraits of the Parisian avant-garde and striking snapshots of twentieth-century New York.
Associate Curator Alexis Goodin introduces A Room of Her Own: Women Artist-Activists in Britain, 1875–1945. The exhibition, a survey of paintings, drawings, prints, stained glass, and other decorative arts made by women artists in Britain, explores the spaces women claimed as their own and which furthered their artistic ambitions.
Exhibition curator Glenn Adamson explores the theme of craft and its different cultural expressions within the Ground/work 2025 exhibition. The talk also features recent photography highlighting the unique round-the-clock experience of appreciating the works of art across the Clark's grounds. An on-location Q&A session followed.
Paul Holberton, author of the acclaimed two-volume book A History of Arcadia in Art and Literature (2021), examines how idyllic landscapes and rustic scenes have been portrayed from antiquity through the Renaissance and into the eighteenth century.
Exhibition curator and student in the Williams College/Clark Graduate Program in the History of Art William Satloff introduces the concept of the pastoral landscape. Surveying the rich array of books, drawings, paintings, and prints presented in the exhibition, Satloff explores how leading artists of the Baroque and Rococo periods envisioned the idyllic lives of shepherds.
