WLRH Events
Thursday, February 3, 2022
Sylvia Yount is the Lawrence A. Fleischman Curator in Charge of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she is responsible for the administrative and curatorial oversight of the department of historical work by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American artists, from the colonial period to the early-twentieth century. Yount has organized major exhibitions, with accompanying catalogues, on Cecilia Beaux, Maxfield Parrish, and American modernism, among other topics focused on women and artists of color in regional and national contexts. She is currently working on exhibitions of Winslow Homer as well as the late nineteenth-century New York art world. More info. at 256-535-4350 and https://hsvmuseum.org/syvlia-yount/
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