Postponed: Member Talk with David Breslin: Still Art from Edward Hopper to Norman Lewis
Thurs, June 4, 2020
6:30–7:30 pm
Edward Hopper, Early Sunday Morning, 1930. Oil on canvas, 35 3/16 × 60 1/4 in. (89.4 × 153 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 31.426. © Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
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Part of an online event series connecting members with the Museum’s curators, this talk by David Breslin will explore a handful of paintings from the Whitney’s collection. These works—by Gertrude Abercrombie, Edward Hopper, and Norman Lewis, among others—combine a profound stillness with a roiling intensity you can feel just beneath the surface. Together, we’ll consider what these artworks mean in this moment.
David Breslin is the DeMartini Family Curator and Director of Curatorial Initiatives. He joined the Whitney in 2016 and has organized or co-organized several collection displays as well as the landmark retrospective David Wojnarowicz: History Keeps Me Awake at Night. Currently he is with family in western Massachusetts, doing a ton of studio visits on Zoom in preparation for the next Whitney Biennial, and still trying to recover from reading Jenny Offill's beautiful but painful novel, Weather.