Spanish Girl of Segovia, 1912
o/c, 40 3/4 x 33 1/8 in.
New Britain Museum of American Art, CT
John Butler Talcott Fund, 1941
Thursday, September 29, 2016
6 pm | Cocktails
7 pm | Dinner
8 pm | Lecture
Deadline for dinner/lecture registration:
Monday, September 26th, 5 pm
Register for dinner and/or lecture
SEEKING THE SPIRIT OF OLD SPAIN:
ROBERT HENRI AND SPANISH THEMES
Speaker: Valerie Leeds, Independent Curator
This lecture derives from a recent traveling exhibition organized with the Telfair Museum. Valerie Leeds served as guest curator for Spanish Sojourns: Robert Henri and the Spirit of Spain that was the first exhibition to investigate this important subject within Henri’s oeuvre.
Valerie Ann Leeds is an independent curator and scholar specializing in early twentieth-century American art, with a particular focus on the work of Robert Henri, and also extending to the artists of his circle. She has served as adjunct curator of American Art at the Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan, and prior to that held curatorial positions at the Orlando Museum of Art, the Tampa Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Educated at the University of Rochester (BA), she pursued graduate studies at Syracuse University (MA), and received her PhD from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in American art and architecture. She has organized many exhibitions at various institutions around the county, and has published, and lectured widely on a variety of subjects in American art.