*FREE EVENT NEXT WEEK!* NRC's Osher Online presents "Finding Beauty at Home and Abroad: The Osher Collection of American Art” with LaUren Palmor, PhD
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2024 - 5PM EASTERN
ON ZOOM
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We know about Mr. Osher’s passion for lifelong learning, but both Bernard and Barbro Osher share a love for collecting historically important art. Dr. Lauren Palmor is the curator of the Oshers' American art collection at the de Young and Legion of Honor Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. During this community event, she will share the Oshers’ historically broad and aesthetically significant art collection. The Osher Collection features artworks by many of the United States’ foremost artists and reflects an array of creative responses to an exceptionally dynamic period in American culture (1848–1960).
Using the Osher collection as illustration, Palmor will explain how transatlantic encounters enriched American art, infusing it with new forms, techniques, histories, and outlooks. She will also discuss how American artists produced diverse responses to the changing landscape of the twentieth century, navigating periods of war, economic upheaval, and profound social change. The varied perspectives on view throughout the Osher collection underscore a broader narrative of American art during this period — a tension between the desire for innovation and the pull of tradition, between the abstract and the representational.
Lauren Palmor is associate curator of American art at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, where she most recently served as coordinating curator of American Beauty: The Osher Collection of American Art (2024), Japanese Prints in Transition: From the Floating World to the Modern World (2024), and the San Francisco presentations of Ansel Adams in Our Time (2023) and Alice Neel: People Come First (2022). She is the author of American Beauty: The Osher Collection of American Art (2024) and Bouquets of Art: A Flower Dictionary from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (2022), and she has contributed to several publications, and she enjoys working collaboratively to design new ways of sharing and experiencing American art with museum audiences.
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