After the Second World War, hundreds of American artists chose to settle in Paris. In 2024, New York University's Grey Art Museum devoted an exhibition to these artists entitled ‘Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946-1962’. Showcasing some 130 paintings, sculptures, photographs, films, textiles and works on paper by nearly 70 artists, it offered a fresh perspective on a creative ferment that is all too often overshadowed by the contemporary rise of the New York art scene.
Lynn Gumpert, co-curator of the exhibition, will be sharing the research methods she and Debra Bricker Balken, lead curator, used for the exhibition.
Image : Ed Clark, The City, 1952. Acrylic on canvas. Collection of Melanca Clark, Boston. Courtesy Hauser and Wirth © Estate of Ed Clark. Photo: Hollister and Young, Michigan Imaging
Wednesday 25 June, at 6.30PM
At the Giacometti Lab and live on Youtube
Lecture in English
Videos