We have two exciting upcoming webinars in June, the first with the lead scholar on WPI’s Kees van Dongen catalogue raisonné project Anita Hopmans on June 18, and the second with renowned Romare Bearden scholar Jacqueline Francis on June 25 to coincide with the release of the first installment of The Romare Bearden Catalogue Raisonné Project.
Read on for more details about each event and registration information.
Van Dongen’s Studios and the Avant-Garde — with Anita Hopmans
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 at 12:00 pm ET (18h CEST)
Register here: http://bit.ly/3HGhpfN
The Dutch-French artist Kees van Dongen (1877-1968) moved from the Netherlands to Paris when he was twenty and quickly joined the modernist vanguard alongside Picasso and Matisse. At the height of his fame, he occupied a luxury, five-floor mansion in Paris where he had a vast studio space, at no. 5 rue Juliette-Lamber. The path of Van Dongen’s exceptional career is reflected in his succession of studios, from the hilltop of Montmartre to his space in the famous Bateau-Lavoir, from the large apartment-studio at 6 rue Saulnier (just around the corner from the Folies-Bergères music hall) to the newer accommodations proximate the Bois de Boulogne at 29 Villa Saïd. Some of his old studios are still intact. The disparate dimensions and surroundings, as well as the nature of the works we see in studio shots, illustrate Van Dongen’s early choices. By way of these spaces, lead scholar of the Kees van Dongen Catalogue Raisonné project Anita Hopmans will introduce us to the artist’s career within the Parisian Avant-garde.
Anita Hopmans was a Head of Collections & Research, in addition to other positions, at the RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History (2003-2023) and, prior to this, was a researcher at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. She is currently completing her PhD at the University of Amsterdam as an external PhD candidate on “Kees van Dongen and the Avant-Garde: About Chances, Choices & the Canon, 1895-1914/1920” and is a recent recipient of a research grant from the Netherlands Institute for Conservation, Art and Science for her material-technical research on a selection of Van Dongen paintings in Dutch museums and private collections. She is also the leading scholar of the Kees van Dongen Digital Catalogue Raisonné Project (Wildenstein Plattner Institute).
Composition and Motif in Romare Bearden’s Collages, 1964-1969 — with Jacqueline Francis
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 2:00 pm ET (20h CEST)
Register here: https://bit.ly/3TtIzc9
The forthcoming inaugural installment of the Romare Bearden catalogue raisonné project will cover the years 1964 to 1969, a period of enormous import and transition in Bearden’s career. In the collages and in their enlarged, photocopied versions, he interpreted a wide range of subjects that had intrigued him as a younger artist: ancient and modernist literature, motifs of Western art history such as The Madonna and the female nude, and enigmatic genre scenes of everyday people, here presented as iconic types—teachers, preachers, musicians, laborers, healers, and card players. West African ritual sculpture–a body of work that Bearden had studied in exhibitions and researched since the 1930s—was a new compositional element in the Sixties’ collages. In this presentation, Jacqueline Francis will discuss Bearden’s methods and stated objectives. This decontextualizing tactic lent enchantment, energy, and majesty to these amalgamated pictures, constituting a narrative of the Black diaspora, and the prodigious impact of African American culture as a historical phenomenon with great impact on every aspect of American life.
Jacqueline Francis is an art historian, curator, and educator. She is Dean of the Humanities & Sciences Division and Professor in the History of Art and Visual Cultural Studies at California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco. She is author and co-editor of several books among them Is Now the Time for Joyous Rage? (2023), Making Race: Modernism and “Racial Art” in America (2012), and Romare Bearden: American Modernism (2011) .She was the co-curator of the Huntington Art Museum’s exhibition “Sargent Claude Johnson” (2024) and a co-editor of the accompanying catalog. She also has curated two exhibitions (2022, 2024) of abstract artist Adia Millett’s work for Hong Kong’s Galerie DuMonde. Among her other curatorial projects are the group shows “Fight and Flight: Crafting a Bay Area Life” (2023, Museum of Craft & Design San Francisco), and “side by side/in the world” (2019, San Francisco Arts Commission Main Gallery).
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