“Somehow a Past”: New England Regionalism, 1900 to 1960
A symposium presented in conjunction with the exhibition Marsden Hartley’s Maine at the Colby College Museum of Art and the Colby College 2017–18 Humanities theme “Origins.”
Friday, October 6, 2017
Diamond Building Atrium
8–8:45 am: Registration and coffee
Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building
9 a.m.: Welcome from Sharon Corwin, Carolyn Muzzy Director and Chief Curator, and Elizabeth Finch, Lunder Curator of American Art
9:15–10:15 a.m.: Keynote Lecture, Martha McNamara, Wellesley College
“Somehow a Past”: New England Regionalism, 1900 to 1960, Keynote Lecture, Martha McNamara, Wellesley College from Colby College Museum of Art on Vimeo.
10:30–noon: Panel 1: Projecting New England
Panelists:
Erin Pauwels, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, “‘Change Your Style’: Charles Demuth in the New England Artist Colonies”
Sarah Powers, Virginia Museum of Arts, “Postcards from Vermont: Reconciling the Rural and the Modern in Charles Sheeler’s Vermont Landscape“
Justin Wolff, University of Maine, Orono, “The Familiar Ephemeral: Everyday New England and Amateur Film”
Respondents: Chelsea Wessels and Mary Ellis Gibson, Colby College
Moderator: Justin McCann, Colby College Museum of Art
“Somehow a Past”: New England Regionalism, 1900 to 1960, Panel 1: Projecting New England from Colby College Museum of Art on Vimeo.
12:15–1:45 p.m.: Lunch (on your own) and visits to the galleries
Given Auditorium, Bixler Art and Museum Building
2:00–3:30 p.m.: Panel 2: Taking Place
Panelists:
Austen Barron Bailly, Peabody Essex Museum, “Thomas Hart Benton, Metacomet and Martha’s Vineyard: New England Origins for an American Modernism”
Leo Mazow, Virginia Museum of Arts, “Wagon Wheels and Tourist Homes: Edward Hopper’s New England Regionalism”
Dana Ostrander, PhD candidate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Native / American: Locating Indigeneity in Marsden Hartley’s Madawaska–Acadian Light-Heavy”
Respondents: Katherine Stubbs, Colby College, and Diana Tuite, Colby College Museum of Art
Moderator: Tanya Sheehan, Colby College
“Somehow a Past”: New England Regionalism, 1900 to 1960, Panel 2: Taking Place from Colby College Museum of Art on Vimeo.
3:45–5:15 p.m.: Panel 3: Divining Objects
Panelists:
Libby Bischof, University of Southern Maine, “Objects of Affection: Modernism, Regionalism and Friendship in the Lives and Works of Marsden Hartley, Paul and Rebecca Strand, and Gaston and Isabel Lachaise”
Erika Doss, University of Notre Dame, “Windmills and Mountains: Agnes Pelton, Marsden Hartley, and Spiritual Modernism in New England”
William D. Moore, Boston University, “William F. Winters, Jr. invents the Shaker Aesthetic: Industrial Photography, Museum Exhibitions, and American Modernism, 1923-1939”
Respondents: Randall R. Griffey, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Laura Saltz, Colby College
Moderator: Lauren Lessing, Colby College Museum of Art
“Somehow a Past”: New England Regionalism, 1900 to 1960, Panel 3: Divining Objects from Colby College Museum of Art on Vimeo.
William D. Adams Gallery (museum lobby)
5:30–6:30 p.m.: Reception