Curator's Tour: Picturing a Nation with Janine Yorimoto Boldt

750 University Avenue,Madison WI 53706

21 October, 2021

Description

Join associate curator of American art Janine Yorimoto Boldt in dialogue with "Picturing a Nation: American Drawings and Watercolors". Join Associate Curator of American Art Janine Yorimoto Boldt for a close look at the exhibition, Picturing A Nation: American Drawings and Watercolors. Yorimoto Boldt will share insights about the curatorial process and discuss selected works in detail. Registration is limited to 20 participants and masks are required. About the Exhibition Co-curated by Janine Yorimoto Boldt and James Wehn, Van Vleck Curator of Works on Paper, Picturing a Nation: American Drawings and Watercolors is a survey of American drawings from the 18th century to the early 20th century. The exhibition introduces audiences audiences to a range of artists, from anonymous to well-known practitioners, who excelled in a variety of drawing media and subject matter. Picturing a Nation: American Drawings and Watercolors traces colonial folk art to European-inspired academic styles to a distinctly modern, American form of draftsmanship. With pen and ink, graphite, watercolor, chalk and pastels, these artists composed incisive portraits, sweeping landscapes, historical narratives and scenes of everyday life. The majority of the drawings in the exhibition are drawn from a series of exceptional gifts to the Chazen over the years from D. Frederick Baker and the Baker/Pisano Collection and from Mr. and Mrs. Stuart P. Feld. About the Curator Janine Yorimoto Boldt, PH.D received doctoral and masters degrees in American Studies from William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. She has curated exhibitions at the American Philosophical Society and the Michigan Woman’s Historical Center and Hall of Fame, and secured fellowships with the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, the Virginia Historical Society and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. She is currently authoring a book based on her dissertation titled The Politics of Portraiture in Colonial Virginia, and is also developing an interactive database based on her research. The Chazen Museum of Art works to collect, preserve, interpret, and exhibit works of art and present related educational programs in support of the teaching, research, and public service mission of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. We do this because the visual arts enrich individual human experience and because knowledge of art is essential to understanding diverse cultures, past and present.