Reciprocating Creativity: The Friendship of Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso
New York City | April 27 | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Office of Alumni Relations and the Dartmouth Alumni Association of New York City host a special presidential edition of Dartmouth on Location at The Metropolitan Museum of Art featuring:
President Jim Yong Kim '82a
Michael Taylor, Director of the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College
Barbara Will, Professor of English at Dartmouth College
Bart Thurber, Curator of European Art at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College
Join us for Reciprocating Creativity: The Friendship of Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso
Enjoy a joint presentation by English professor Barbara Will and Bart Thurber, curator of European art at the Hood Museum of Art, on the close relationship between Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso and the intricate way in which they responded to each other’s work. Discover how Dartmouth’s own magnificent Picasso painting, Guitar on a Table (1912), journeyed from Gertrude's collection in Paris to Hanover to the Metropolitan. Then visit the Metropolitan’s exhibition The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde.
Program
Friday, April 27
4–6 pm: Registration opens; early exhibition viewing available
6 pm: Presentations in Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
7:30–8:45 pm: Opportunity to view exhibition
Michael Taylor is director of the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth. Dr. Taylor studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, where he wrote a doctoral dissertation on Marcel Duchamp, before joining the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where he was the curator of modern art from 1997 to 2011. In 2009, his book Marcel Duchamp: Etant donnés won the George Wittenborn Prize. Since joining the Hood Museum of Art in August 2011, Dr. Taylor has organized two exhibition projects – “Marcel Duchamp: The Box in a Valise” and “The Expanding Grid” – that are currently on view in the museum’s Lathrop Gallery.
Barbara Will is a professor of English at Dartmouth College. She is the author of two books and numerous articles on European and American modernism and literary theory. Her most recent book, Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma, uncovers the true story of Stein's survival in France during World War II. It was published by Columbia University Press last fall.
T. Barton Thurber is the curator of European Art at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College. He has written and lectured extensively on European art history, patronage, and collecting from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century. In 2008 he produced a 232-page collection catalogue on European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, published by University Press of New England.
Museum Photo Credit: Wilson Santiago, Photograph Studio, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This Dartmouth on Location event is organized by the Office of Alumni Relations in partnership with the Dartmouth Alumni Association of New York City. For more information on Dartmouth on Location adventures, contact Alumni Continuing Education at (603) 646-9159 or ar.ace@dartmouth.edu.