2008 Woodie Awards
American Art Scholar Comes to Rollins
Joshua Benesh
Issue date: 4/14/06 Section: News
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On Tuesday April 4 the Cornell Fine Arts Museum hosted Carrie Rebora Barratt's presentation "Gilbert Stuart At Home and Abroad," a presentation sponsored by the Cornell Fine Arts Museum and the Thomas P. Johnson Distinguished Visiting Scholar Program.
Dr. Barratt is the Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture and Manager of the Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
She is a celebrated expert on eighteenth and nineteenth century portraiture and was co-curator of the recent Gilbert Stuart exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and co-author of its accompanying catalogue.
Dr. Barratt's visit focused around the life and work of Gilbert Stuart, America's preeminent portraitist.
Her presentation coincides with the recent acquisition of Stuart's "Sir Robert Burton Coynynham" by the Cornell, the institution's first work by Stuart.
The lecture featured an overview of Stuart's work, casting him in a much more international light than the image his American roots and place in the history of American art have traditionally placed him.
Stuart traveled and painted extensively in England and Ireland, focusing on peripheral members of the aristocracy and the artistic community itself as a source for sitters.
It was this time and place that yielded the Cornell's work, depicting Sir Robert Burton Coynynham, a member of the Irish landed aristocracy and figure within Irish national politics.
While abroad, Stuart befriended and worked with the leading portraitists of his generation. Dr. Barratt advanced that this period served as the catalyst for Stuart's transition as an artist.
In his travels, Stuart progressed from the provincial style of his early American works to a much more refined execution.
It was this dramatic shift in execution that yielded Dr. Barratt's conclusion that Stuart can best be classified as an English portraitist depicting American sitters.
Dr. Barratt is the Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture and Manager of the Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
She is a celebrated expert on eighteenth and nineteenth century portraiture and was co-curator of the recent Gilbert Stuart exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and co-author of its accompanying catalogue.
Dr. Barratt's visit focused around the life and work of Gilbert Stuart, America's preeminent portraitist.
Her presentation coincides with the recent acquisition of Stuart's "Sir Robert Burton Coynynham" by the Cornell, the institution's first work by Stuart.
The lecture featured an overview of Stuart's work, casting him in a much more international light than the image his American roots and place in the history of American art have traditionally placed him.
Stuart traveled and painted extensively in England and Ireland, focusing on peripheral members of the aristocracy and the artistic community itself as a source for sitters.
It was this time and place that yielded the Cornell's work, depicting Sir Robert Burton Coynynham, a member of the Irish landed aristocracy and figure within Irish national politics.
While abroad, Stuart befriended and worked with the leading portraitists of his generation. Dr. Barratt advanced that this period served as the catalyst for Stuart's transition as an artist.
In his travels, Stuart progressed from the provincial style of his early American works to a much more refined execution.
It was this dramatic shift in execution that yielded Dr. Barratt's conclusion that Stuart can best be classified as an English portraitist depicting American sitters.