5:30pm

Reception and exhibition viewing

6:30pm

Welcome
Sarah Cash, Bechhoefer Curator of American Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art
(Armand Hammer Auditorium)

7:00pm

"A Brief History of the Corcoran's American Collection"
Marisa Bourgoin, Archivist, Corcoran Gallery of Art
(Armand Hammer Auditorium)

7:30-9:00pm

Additional time to view the exhibition

9:00am

Welcome and Introduction of Speakers
Sarah Cash, Bechhoefer Curator of American Art

9:30am

"Samuel F. B. Morse's House of Representatives: The American System Revealed"
Paul Staiti, Professor of Fine Arts on the Alumnae Foundation,
Mount Holyoke College

10:00am

"John Singer Sargent, Madame Pailleron, and the Blur of Mass Culture”
Dorothy Moss, Smithsonian Predoctoral Fellow

10:45am

"New York Pastoral:  George Bellows's Forty-two Kids”
Sarah M. Newman, Department of American and British Paintings,
National Gallery of Art

11:15am

“Aaron Douglas’s Into Bondage and the Representation of Race and
History at the Texas Centennial Exposition of 1936”
Renée Ater, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland

11:45am

Lunch

1:30pm

Afternoon sessions meet in Encouraging American Genius galleries

Participants will have the opportunity to attend each of the following four half-hour scholar-led discussions:

"Paintings of "the people"
Elizabeth Johns, Professor Emerita of the History of Art,
University of Pennsylvania

"How'd they do that? Examining Techniques of American Painters"
Lance Mayer and Gay Myers, Conservators, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, and Dare Hartwell, Conservator, Corcoran Gallery of Art

“ Engaging the American Landscape”
Franklin Kelly, Senior Curator of American and British Paintings,
National Gallery of Art

" Painting Cultivation in the Gilded Age"
Isabel L. Taube, Faculty, School of Visual Arts, New York

4:00pm

Closing reception