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Join us for a virtual symposium exploring American modernism and its entanglements with self-taught art in the interwar period.\u00a0This program is organized in partnership with Stanford University\u2019s Department of Art & Art History.<\/span><\/p>\n Watch a recording of Session 1<\/span> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Watch a recording of Session 2<\/span> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Watch a recording of Session 3<\/span> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","start_time":"11:00 am","end_time":"5:00 pm","admission":"Virtual; free with registration","main_content":" Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered<\/span><\/i> features over 40 of the artist\u2019s paintings (more than half of his output) as well as photographic and audio archives that trace the painter\u2019s brief but sensational career in New York. This exhibition reintroduces to scholars, historians, and the contemporary audience a singular artist whose work has been obscured since his death in 1946.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In the symposium \u201c<\/span>Unexpected Partners: Self-Taught Art and Modernism in Interwar America,\u201d <\/span>Morris Hirshfield\u2019s remarkable production and contentious reception serve as a springboard for a broader consideration of modernism\u2019s complex interchange with self-taught art in the United States during the mid-twentieth century. <\/span>Panelists revisit a vital moment during the interwar period when vanguard and self-taught art were in dialogue through new research into key episodes such as Morris Hirshfield\u2019s embrace by the Surrealists who decamped to New York as fascism rose in Europe or William Edmondson\u2019s experience as the first Black and self-taught artist to be given a solo exhibition at MoMA.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Talks highlight the important contributions that self-taught artists made to the development of modernism in the United States, redressing these artists’ gradual exclusion from the art-historical canon in the postwar era and fleshing out a more representative narrative of American art.<\/span><\/p>\n Watch a recording of Session 1<\/strong>\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Watch a recording of Session 2<\/strong>\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Watch a recording of Session 3<\/strong>\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n