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Recovering Women's Legacies

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Posted by: Frick Art Reference Library
Deadline: Wed, June 30th, 2021

Recovering Women’s Legacies: Artists, Dealers, Collectors, and Patrons  

Wednesdays, June 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30 

12:00 to 1:00 p.m. EDT 

Live through Zoom (To register: https://tinyurl.com/58pntmdn) 

 

This June, the Center for the History of Collecting and The Wildenstein Plattner Institute are hosting a Wednesday lunchtime series spotlighting archival resources on important women who shaped visual culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Register for just one session or attend them all!  

 

Schedule of Sessions  

 

Part One: Archives Revealed

Wednesday, June 2, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.  

 

Complicated Legacies: A Look at Women Dealers and Collectors from the WPI Digital Archives 

Sandrine Canac, Director of Digital Archival Projects, The Wildenstein Plattner Institute 

Samantha Rowe, Digital Archivist and Research Associate, The Wildenstein Plattner Institute  

 

Discovering Women Collectors, Dealers and Artists in The Frick Collection Archives 

Sally Brazil, Associate Chief Librarian for Archives and Records Management, The Frick Collection  

 

 

Part Two: Digital Research Methodologies 

Wednesday, June 9, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.  

 

Mme. X: Women Collectors in Provenance Research 

Elizabeth Gorayeb, Executive Director, The Wildenstein Plattner Institute 

Jennifer Gimblett, Senior Researcher and Project Manager, The Wildenstein Plattner Institute  

 

Transforming Research Methodologies: A Digital Approach 

Louisa Wood Ruby, Head of Research, Frick Art Reference Library 

Samantha Deutch, Assistant Director of the Center for the History of Collecting, Frick Art Reference Library  

 

 

Part Three: Florence Sloan and Nanette Bearden 

Wednesday, June 16, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.  

 

Personal Ambitions and Communal Uplift: The Collector Florence Sloan through her Archive 

Evie Terrono, Professor of Art History, Randolph-Macon College  

 

Legacy Building: Finding the Archive of Nanette Bearden 

Diedra Harris-Kelley, Co-Director of the Romare Bearden Foundation  

 

 

Part Four: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe and A’Lelia Walker 

Wednesday, June 23, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.  

 

Catharine Lorillard Wolfe: Securing Her Legacy in the Cultural Landscape of the Gilded Age 

Margaret R. Laster, Independent Scholar and Consultant, Center for the History of Collecting, Frick Art Reference Library  

 

A’Lelia Walker’s Harlem Renaissance Salon 

A’Lelia Bundles, Author, Board Member of the National Archives Foundation  

 

 

Part Five: Panel Discussion 

Wednesday, June 30, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.  

 

Julie Des Jardins, Author of Women and the Historical Enterprise in America: Gender, Race and the Politics of Memory, 1880–1945, in conversation with Véronique Chagnon-Burke, Ph.D., Independent Scholar, founding member of the Women Art Dealers Digital Archive 

     

 

 

                   

Posted on Wed, May 26th, 2021
Expires on Wed, June 30th, 2021

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