Join the curators behind the years-long traveling exhibition of French drawings from the Horvitz Collection for enlightening presentations and a panel discussion. Sarah Farkas, the Crocker Art Museum’s Associate Curator of Art, will be joined by curators who worked closely on the different iterations of the exhibition at the Ackland Art Museum in Chapel Hill, NC and the Art Institute of Chicago. The conversation will be followed by a moderated Q&A. Attendees are encouraged to view the Crocker’s exhibition Reform to Restoration: French Art from Louis XVI to Louis XVII from the Horvitz Collection which closes on Sunday, September 14.

Speakers:

Alvin L. Clark Jr., Curator, Horvitz Collection

Emerson Bowyer, Searle Curator, Paintings and Sculpture of Europe, Art Institute of Chicago

Sarah Farkas, Associate Curator of Art, Crocker Art Museum

Free for Crocker members, free with admission for nonmembers. Advance registration suggested.

This event is organized by The Drawing Foundation in partnership with the Crocker Art Museum.

Image: Joseph-Marie Vien (French, 1715–1809), Love Giving the Prize, 1794. Pen with black ink and brush with brown wash on off-white laid paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down on a decorated mount. The Horvitz Collection, Wilmington

Events

Reimagining Revolution, Reform, and Restoration in Three Museums: Curator Panel Discussion on the Horvitz Collection of French Drawings

Name: Reimagining Revolution, Reform, and Restoration in Three Museums: Curator Panel Discussion on the Horvitz Collection of French Drawings
Start: 2025-09-13T14:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-09-13T16:00:00-07:00
Location: Crocker Art Museum