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Slug: Metropolitan Museum of Art To Hold Gilbert Stuart Symposium January 14

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art will hold a symposium on Gilbert Stuart, Friday, January 14, from 10 am to 4:30 pm in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium. The day will begin with a welcome by Morrison H. Heckscher, Lawrence A. Fleischman chairman of the American Wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as an introduction by Carrie Rebora Barratt, curator, American Paintings and Sculpture, and manager, the Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Topics for discussion at the morning symposium will include: “Historical American Portraiture: Its Rebirth,” presented by William H. Gerdts, professor emeritus of art history at the graduate school of the City University of New York; “What Stuart Saw in Scotland: 1771–1773,” presented by James Holloway, director, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh; “Gilbert Stuart and George Romney: A Common Approach to Portraiture in 1780s London,” presented by Alex Kidson, curator, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; “A Plurality of His Portraits: Copies of Stuart’s Portraits in Miniature,” presented by Elle Shushan.

Topics for discussion at the afternoon symposium will include: “Portrait Culture, Political Longing, and Stuart’s Lansdowne Type,” presented by David Steinberg of Charlottesville; “Stuart and the National Imagination,” presented by Paul Staiti, professor of art history, Mount Holyoke College; and “Flash of Recognition: Stuart’s Bipolarity,” presented by Dorinda Evans, professor of art history, Emory University.

Tickets are $30. Seats are limited, and advance purchase is recommended. All tickets are general seating. All sales are final and payments cannot be refunded. Speakers are subject to change. For further information and to purchase tickets, email lectures@met museum.org or call 212-396-5460, Monday through Friday, 9:30 am to 5 pm.