Vita Petersen met Jackson and Lee through Mercedes Matter and worked with her to form the New York Studio School, where Petersen taught for many years. Michael Brenson, art critic and curator, will discuss Petersen’s life and work in dialog…
Vita Petersen met Jackson and Lee through Mercedes Matter and worked with her to form the New York Studio School, where Petersen taught for many years. Michael Brenson, art critic and curator, will discuss Petersen’s life and work in dialog…
Mike Solomon, the Founding Director of the Alfonso Ossorio Foundation, examines the shared artistic aims and the unlikely affinity between the wealthy, worldly, Harvard-educated Filipino-American artist Alfonso Ossorio and Jackson Pollock, son of an Iowa farm family and high school…
With those words, the charismatic artist John D. Graham invited Lee Krasner to participate in a 1942 exhibition. Graham also invited Jackson Pollock, a move that brought the two young painters together professionally and romantically. Alicia G. Longwell, the Chief…
In the popular Art In Focus Lecture Series tradition, May 2023 brought a new lecture series, The Art of Relationships, sponsored jointly by the Stony Brook University Libraries and the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center. The Art of Relationships lecture…
Elizabeth will consider some of Frankenthaler’s earliest works and will reflect on what made Frankenthaler’s painting, in Morris Louis’s later words, a “bridge between Pollock and what was possible” for other artists in the 1950s. REGISTRATION Please register for the event…
Charles Pollock, ten years Jackson’s senior, was a distinguished painter in his own right. Born in 1902, he passed his later years in Paris, where he died in 1988. Philip will trace his path from Thomas Hart Benton and WPA-inspired…
Harry will lead a virtual walk-through of “Philip Guston Now,” the retrospective currently on view at the National Gallery of Art. Explore Guston’s life and work while looking closely at some of his greatest canvases. Bring your eyes and your…
Join us in the Southampton Library for a fun, relaxing, and stress-reducing visit with our friends the therapy dogs! Courtesy of Counseling and Psychological Services and their PALS program, we’ll have a number of trained animals on hand so stop…
Join us in the Southampton Library for a fun, relaxing, and stress-reducing visit with our friends the therapy dogs! Courtesy of Counseling and Psychological Services and their PALS program, we’ll have a number of trained animals on hand so stop…
The University Libraries is pleased to announce that Dan’s Papers founder Dan Rattiner has donated more than a half century’s worth of his personal archives. Spanning 1960 to 2023, the collection is the most complete print run of Dan’s Papers held by a…