ECR French Nineteenth-Century Art Network presents: “Curatorial Roundtable: Behind the Scenes of Paris 1874”
Tues 7 May 1600 (BST) / 1700 (CEST) / 1100 (EDT)
Join us for a special Network Event to learn about the landmark exhibition Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment, taking place at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris from 25 March–14 July 2024, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. from 8 September 2024–19 January 2025. The exhibition marks the 150th anniversary of the First Impressionist Exhibition by bringing together works from that exhibition as well as from the 1874 Salon, offering a fresh perspective on this critical moment in the history of French art and culture. The speakers will include members of the D.C.-based curatorial team, including Mary Morton, Kimberly A. Jones, and Nikki Georgopulos.
Speaker bios:
Nikki Georgopulos is an art historian, curator, and educator specializing in European art of the nineteenth century. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory at the University of British Columbia. Her current book project traces representations of mirrors and reflection in nineteenth-century French painting. She has also published extensively on the work of Mary Cassatt, looking particularly to Cassatt’s interest and investment in the question of labour, as well as her involvement in the US women’s suffrage movement. She was a part of the Washington-based curatorial team for Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment while serving as the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow in the Department of French Paintings from 2020–2022.
Kimberly A. Jones received her PhD from the University of Maryland in 1996. A former museum fellow at the Musée national du château de Pau and the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, she joined the curatorial staff of the National Gallery of Art in 1995. Jones has curated a number of exhibitions including Edouard Vuillard (2003–2004); In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet (2008); Degas/Cassatt (2014), Frédéric Bazille and the Birth of Impressionism (2016–2017), and Degas at the Opéra (2020). She is part of the curatorial team for Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment, which opens in Washington in September.
Mary Morton is curator and head of the Department of French at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. She received her PhD in the history of art and architecture in 1998 from Brown University. Before joining the NGA, she held the position of associate curator of paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum (2004–2010) and associate curator of European art at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Houston (1998–2004).