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X-WR-CALNAME:Lecture: Robyn Asleson: “Daring to be Modern: American Women
  in Paris\, 1900 – 1939”
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DESCRIPTION:In early-20th-century Paris\, many talented\, independent-minde
 d American women found the freedom to carry out transformative cultural wo
 rk and to transform themselves in the process. This lecture\, presented by
  Robyn Asleson\, curator of prints and drawings at the Smithsonian’s Nat
 ional Portrait Gallery and organizer of the exhibition “Brilliant Exiles
 \,” recaptures the experiences of some of the unorthodox women who cross
 ed the Atlantic to blaze new trails in a variety of fields and who helped 
 to shape the world we live in today.\n\nAsleson is curator of prints and d
 rawings at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. Her exhibitions 
 and publications reflect a longstanding interest in transatlantic crosscur
 rents in the history of American art\, the role of women as cultural agent
 s and the relationship between portraiture and the performing arts. Her ex
 hibition projects at the Portrait Gallery include “Brilliant Exiles: Ame
 rican Women in Paris\, 1900 – 1939” (2024 – 25)\, the team-curated 
 “Kinship” (2022 – 24) and “Portraits of the World” (2016 – 20)
 \, a series of spotlight exhibitions featuring individual portraits on loa
 n from international museums placed in conversation with works from the Po
 rtrait Gallery collection. She was venue curator for the exhibition “Joh
 n Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal” (2020) and is currently develop
 ing an exhibition of 19th-century American theatrical portraits\, “Stagi
 ng America: Theater and National Identity\, 1812 – 1912” (2027).\n\nPr
 ior to joining the National Portrait Gallery\, Asleson specialized in Brit
 ish art. In 2016\, she co-organized the exhibition “The Lost Symphony: W
 histler and the Perfection of Art” at the Smithsonian’s Freer/Sackler 
 Gallery. The exhibition built on her many publications on the aesthetic mo
 vement in the United States and Great Britain\, including a monograph on t
 he influential English painter Albert Moore (2000) and her prize-winning d
 octoral dissertation\, “Classic into Modern: The Inspiration of Antiquit
 y in English Painting\,1864 – 1918” (1993). She wrote the comprehensiv
 e permanent collection catalogue “British Paintings at the Huntington”
  (2001) and served as editor and co-author of “Notorious Muse: The Actre
 ss in British Art and Culture (1776 – 1812)” (2003) and “A Passion f
 or Performance: Sarah Siddons and Her Portraitists” (1999). She was also
  curator of the exhibition “Cultivating Celebrity: Portraiture as Public
 ity in the Career of Sarah Siddons” at the Huntington (1999) and co-cura
 tor of “Great British Paintings from American Collections: Holbein to Ho
 ckney” at the Yale Center for British Art (2001). Asleson holds bachelor
 ’s\, master’s and doctoral degrees from Yale University.
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LOCATION:Georgia Museum of Art
SUMMARY:Lecture: Robyn Asleson: “Daring to be Modern: American Women in P
 aris\, 1900 – 1939”
URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uga.edu/event/lecture-robyn-asleson-daring-t
 o-be-modern-american-women-in-paris-1900-1939
CATEGORIES:Lectures and Discussions
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