In the fall and spring semesters, various well-known art historians--and a photographer--will discuss the “picturing of the American West” from the mid-nineteenth century to the present from their unique vantage points.  Please mark your calendars!  All lectures are free and open to the public but space is limited. Contact: 214.768-2698.

Burning Daylight: Frederic Remington, Electricity, and Flash Photography

Professor Alexander Nemerov, Yale University

Thursday, September 9, 2004, Meadows Museum Auditorium, 5:30 PM

Professor Nemerov is the author of two books, The Body of Raphaelle Peale, published in 2001 by the University of California Press, and Frederic Remington and Turn-of-the-Century America published in 1995 by Yale University Press.

Earth Artist, Robert Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty by the Great Salt Lake

Professor Anne Reynolds, University of Texas

Thursday, October 7,2004, Meadows Museum Auditorium, 5:30 PM

Who Ever Heard of a WOMAN Sculptor? Harriet Hosmer, Elisabet Ney, and the 19^th Century Dialogue with the Three-Dimensional

Professor Alessandra Comini, SMU

Thursday, November 4, 2004, Meadows Museum Auditorium, 6:30 PM

Hosmer on stepladder next to
her Senator Hart sculpture.

Points of Viewing: Arthur Schott (1814-1875) and the U.S. Mexico Boundary

Professor Robin Kelsey, Harvard University

Rio Grande Near Frontera, c. 1857

Taos, the Artist's Paradise

Peter Hassrick, writer and independent scholar

Formal and Reportage Portraits by Laura Wilson

Laura Wilson, photographer

Thursday, March 3, 2005, Meadows Museum Auditorium, 5:30 pm

New Urbanism in Dallas: Pragmatics or Profit or the Morals of Authentic City Experience

Professor Charissa Terranova, SMU

From Adams to Adams: Redefining the American West?

John Rohrbach, Curator of Photographs, Amon Carter Museum

Ansel Adams, Siesta Lake, Yosemite National Park, c. 1958, gelatin silver print

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