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The Laguna Art Museum presents Derrick Cartwright on Robert Henri tonight Thursday, February 26 2015.
This is a free event for museum members or with paid admission.
The event begins at 7:00pm.
The Laguna Art Museum is located at 307 Cliff Drive.
Guest curator Derrick Cartwright talks about the work of Robert Henri in conjunction with his exhibition Robert Henri’s California: Realism, Race, and Region, 1914-1925.
Cartwright is an authority on the California works of the great New York painter.
He draws upon research that he started as a young professor at the University of San Diego and continued as Director of the San Diego Museum of Art and completed upon his return to USD in his present position as Director of University Galleries and Professor of Practice, Art History.
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Derrick R. Cartwright was born in San Francisco and studied art history at UC Berkeley (AB 1984), UCLA (MA 1988), and the University of Michigan (Ph.D. 1994).
He has taught courses at the University of San Diego, UC San Diego, UC Berkeley, Columbia University’s Program at Reid Hall (Paris), and Dartmouth College.
His museum experience is broad and includes work at The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, as well as directorial experience at the Musée d’Art Americain Giverny, the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, the San Diego Museum of Art, and the Seattle Art Museum.
Cartwright has lectured throughout the world and published on a variety of topics, ranging from eighteenth-century American history painting,
nineteenth century artists’ colonies, and twentieth-century photography to contemporary debates in museum culture.
He is currently working on a book about decisive change in twentieth-century American art.
Since the fall of 2012, he has been the Director of University Galleries and Professor of Practice in the Department of Art, Architecture + Art History at the University of San Diego.
For more information please link to Laguna Art Musuem
