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Events for November 7 2009

Sargent and the Sea: A Symposium
Saturday, November 07, 2009 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Tickets for this program will be sold at our New York Avenue entrance thirty minutes before the start of the program. We accept all major credit cards, cash, and checks. Tickets are no longer available online.

Opening remarks
Sarah Cash, Bechhoefer Curator of American art, Corcoran Gallery of Art.

Sargent and the Paris Art Scene
Richard Ormond, project director, John Singer Sargent Catalogue Raisonné.

Unbridled Enthusiasm: Sargent and European Marine Painting in the 1870s
Nancy Locke, Associate Professor of Art History, The Pennsylvania State University.

Sargent’s “Traveling Culture”: Transatlantic Crossings Expatriate Experience, and the Workings of a Cosmopolitan Aestheticism
Peter Gibian, professor of English, McGill University.

To Finistere by Way of Field and Strand
Maureen C. O’Brien, Curator of Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design.

The Lure of the South
Elaine Kilmurray, Co-author and Research Director, John Singer Sargent Catalogue Raisonné.

Describing is Descending: Moby Dick and Art History
Alexander Nemerov, Professor and Chair of the History of Art Department, Yale University.

$35 Public
$25 Members and Museum Professionals
$15 Full-time Students- Please, call (202) 639- 1770 for registration.

Attendees are invited to join us for a reception and exhibition viewing on Friday, November 6, 2009, 6–8 p.m.

For more information on the Sargent and the Sea exhibition click here.

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