Gallery Walk Fri, Sep 4, 5–8pm Join us for drinks and appetizers while viewing the paintings of Mary Henry and Helen Lundeberg. Exhibition Tours Tue, Sep 8 and Tue, Sep 29 at 2pm and by arrangement Trained docents offer visitors new insight into the artwork on display in free tours of our exhibitions. Special Evening Exhibition Tour Thu, Sep 10, 5:30pm Enjoy a glass of wine while you tour the exhibition with curator Courtney Gilbert. Lecture Mary Henry and Helen Lundeberg: Women Artists and Modernism in the United States Thu, Sep 17, 7pm Join us for two short lectures on different aspects of the exhibition. Kristin Poole, The Center’s Artistic Director, will give a talk on the history of women artists in 20th-century America, locating the work of Henry and Lundeberg within this broader context. Courtney Gilbert, The Center’s Curator of Visual Arts, will trace the history of geometric abstraction from Russian Constructivism in the 1920s to Op Art in the 1960s. cover left to right: Mary Henry, A Kind of Blue, 2002, acrylic on canvas, courtesy of Howard House Contemporary Art, Seattle Helen Lundeberg, Blue Planet, 1965, acrylic on canvas, ©Feitelson Arts Foundation, reproduced by permission of Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood
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This exhibition is made possible, in part, through the generous support of Jeri L. Waxenberg.
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