Art at Lunch: Curator’s Choice – The Battle Mural
August 3, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Art at Lunch: Curator’s Choice – The Battle Mural
with Bennington Museum Curator, Jamie Franklin
The Battle of Bennington took place on August 16, 1777. More than 150 years later, during the Great Depression, Leroy Williams painted Prisoners Taken at the Battle of Bennington as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). In this month’s Art at Lunch, Bennington Museum Curator will talk about the mural in the context of the WPA and about how it documents the diversity of people involved in the 1777 battle.
About the Presenter:
Jamie has been curator at the Bennington Museum since 2005. His scholarship has focused on American art of the early to mid-20th century, with a particular emphasis on the intersection of modernism and self-taught art. He has organized exhibitions and written books, essays and articles featuring artists and topics including Erastus Salisbury Field, Grassroots Art, Impressionism, Rockwell Kent, Anna Mary Robertson Grandma Moses, and Alice Neel. His 2014 exhibition Alice Neel/Erastus Salisbury Field: Painting the People was recognized by the Wall Street Journal as one of the most memorable exhibitions of the year and his 2016 exhibition Milton Avery’s Vermont was lauded as being “as close to a perfect show as mere mortals can mount.”
Art at Lunch:
Save the date! On the first Tuesday of every month, we will introduce you to an artist, explore a painting, or engage in conversations about the amazing and diverse art present in Vermont and in the greater Bennington area.
Art at Lunch is offered at no charge to Bennington Museum members and on a pay-what-you-wish basis to Not-Yet-Members.