Thursday, December 8
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
About Our Presenter:
An independent curator, Robin Jaffee Frank, PhD has organized numerous exhibitions at museums throughout the US, lectured extensively, and published widely on American visual culture from the colonial through contemporary periods. She formerly served as Chief Curator at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, and Senior Associate Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven. Robin holds a PhD in the history of art from Yale University.
Robin curated the exhibition and authored the accompanying book Love and Loss: American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures (Yale University Press, 2000). The exhibition opened at the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Conn., and traveled to the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC, and Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, in Andover, Mass. Robin continued to explore how American art frames memory in essays published in Expressions of Innocence and Eloquence: Selections from the Jane Katcher Collection of Americana (vol. 1, 2006; vol. 2, 2011) and in Becoming America: Highlights from the Jonathan and Karin Fielding Collection (2020). In 2020–21, she taught a course titled Love and Loss: Framing Memory in American Art at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.
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