Dr. Katherine McAllen Speaking at IMAS on Principles of Harmony: Impressionism in Europe and North America, 1850-1900
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McAllen, TX- Dr. Katherine McAllen will be speaking at the International Museum of Art & Science (IMAS) on Saturday, October 14, 2017 starting at 4:00 p.m. Dr. McAllen’s presentation, titled “Principles of Harmony: Impressionism in Europe and North America, 1850-1900,” will explore the rich history of Impressionism and its intimate connections with artists in North America and Europe.
“This speaking engagement is the first of a series that IMAS is pleased to be launching as part of its continued affiliation with the UTRGV College of Fine Arts,” states Serena Pandos, Interim President.
Katherine McAllen is an Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. She received her PhD at Harvard University and her MA degree at the University of Texas Austin.
As a Fulbright-Hays fellow and visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome, her research focuses on artistic exchanges between colonial Mexico, Peru, and Early Modern Europe. Current projects include an essay with Cambridge University Press titled “Jesuit Martyrdom Imagery Between New Spain and Rome,” which appears in the anthology titled The Discovery of the New World in Early Modern Italy: Encounters with the Americas in the 16th – 18th Century, edited by Elizabeth Horodowich and Lia Markey (forthcoming November 2017).
Dr. McAllen is also involved in creation of the upcoming exhibition at the San Antonio Museum of Art opening in February 2018 titled Circa 1718: Mexican Art During San Antonio’s First Century. She also contributed a scholarly essay in the Circa 1718 catalogue titled: “Time and Space on the Missionary Frontier: Cultural Dynamics and the Defense of Northern New Spain” (Trinity University Press, 2018).
The setting for Dr. McAllen’s talk is the exhibition American Impressionism: The Lure of the Artists’ Colony, which features the stellar collection of works from the Reading Public Museum in Pennsylvania. This exhibition, sponsored by Clark Chevrolet and Clark Knapp Honda, opened on August 12, 2017 and runs through November 12, 2017 in the Clark Family Gallery of IMAS. The collection of lyrical landscapes, ranging from snow-covered hills to sun-filled harbors and seascapes to penetrating portraits and remarkable still life paintings documents an important moment in the history of American art.
The selections are arranged according to the artists’ colonies that played a critical role in the development of American Impressionism around the turn of the century.
These colonies offered artists the opportunity to teach, collaborate and escape the daily rigors of their city studios. Often located in scenic locations within striking distance of major cities, artists’ colonies offered a steady dose of natural beauty and provided ample subject matter. This lecture series program is free to IMAS Members and included with General Admission.
