Karen Quinn, Senior Historian/Curator, Art and Culture and Lisa Anderson, Curator of Bioarchaeology will present a brief 20 minute tour of the exhibition looking at how American painters and sculptors of the 19th and 20th centuries from Albert Bierstadt to Georgia O’Keeffe interpreted the West from myth to reality.
Lunch Bite: An Art & Anthropology Sample of Imaging the American West: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
12:00 Noon
West Gallery
Free
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Cyrus Dallin (1861-1944), Appeal to the Great Spirit 1913; cast ca. 1916, 21 3/8 x 14 ½ x 21 ¾ in. (54.3 x 36.8 x 55.2 cm), bronze, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Morris K. Jesup Fund and Jonathan L. Cohen and Allison B. Morrow Gift, 2013 Image
Cyrus Dallin (1861-1944),
Appeal to the Great Spirit
1913; cast ca. 1916,
21 3/8 x 14 ½ x 21 ¾ in. (54.3 x 36.8 x 55.2 cm), bronze,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Morris K. Jesup Fund and
Jonathan L. Cohen and Allison B. Morrow Gift, 2013
Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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