Spotlight Tour of Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith
Nov 29, 2023–Jan 8, 2024
Harry Smith, Algo Bueno [Jazz Painting], c. 1948–49. Lightbox projection from 35mm slide of lost original painting, 27 7/8 × 28 in. (55.6 × 71.1 cm). Estate of Jordan Belson.
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Floor 5, Kaufman Gallery
Open to Patron, Circle, Fellow, and Sponsor Members
Wednesday, November 29
6:45 pm, 7:15 pm
Monday, January 8
6:45 pm
Patron, Circle, Fellow, and Sponsor members are invited to join us for a tour of Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith, the first solo exhibition of artist, experimental filmmaker, and groundbreaking musicologist Harry Smith, whose compendium of song recordings, the Anthology of American Folk Music, laid the groundwork for the popularization of folk music in the 1960s. This major exhibition introduces Smith’s life and work within a museum setting for the first time and includes paintings, drawings, experimental films, designs, and examples of Smith’s collections of objects ranging from string figures to found paper airplanes.
There are multiple date options for this event. Each tour, lasting approximately fifty minutes, will be led by one of the Museum’s Joan Tisch Teaching Fellows.
