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Part Two: Lecture Series with William Perthes: American Art 1945 - 2000

Presented by Wayne Art Center at Wayne Art Center, Wayne PA

Apr 11 2024
Part Two: Lecture Series with William Perthes: American Art 1945 - 2000

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Post WW II New York exploded onto the world stage as the new center of modern art with Abstract Expressionist painters leading the charge. However, surging in their wake were new generations of painters eager to push the limits of American art.

William M. Perthes is the Bernard C. Watson Director of Adult Education at the Barnes Foundation. William is an art historian whose scholarship focuses on Modernism, particularly in the United States, with a special concentration on the Abstract Expressionist painters.

From Joan Mitchell and Alice Neel to Horace Pippin and Romare Bearden, from Andy Warhol and Keith Haring to Barkley L. Hendricks and Jean-Michel Basquiat, American art of the second half of the 20th century was diverse and ... view more »

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