Wednesday, April 4, 2012

noon-1pm

Schmucker 302, Gettysburg College

Please join us for "The Fashioning of a Frontier Artist: The Entrepreneurial Career of George Caleb Bingham" by Joan Stack, Curator of Art Collections, The State Historical Society of Missouri.

This lecture will focus on renowned American artist, George Caleb Bingham, his public image and the importance of New York's American Art Union and other print publishers in the advancement of his career. Dr. Stack will address the general art historical understanding of Bingham and his place in nineteenth-century American art.

Pizza lunch will be served. 

Sponsored by the Department of Art and Art History, Civil War Era Studies and the President's Office, Gettysburg College.  For more information, contact Felicia Else, felse@gettysburg.edu.