Monday, April 14, 3 – 3:30pm
Randall Morgan. Amalfi: Moonlight Pattern (detail), 1950. The Barnes Foundation, BF2538. © 2025 Estate of Randall Morgan
Free with admission
About the Talk
Emma Nell Jacobs, a doctoral candidate in the history of art at the University of Pennsylvania, leads an in-depth discussion about Randall Morgan’s Amalfi: Moonlight Pattern. The talk takes place in Room 18.
In Focus Gallery Talks are 30-minute discussions held in the Barnes galleries presented in partnership with the University of Pennsylvania’s history of art graduate program. In Focus talks provide new interpretative approaches and intensive focus on individual works in the collection or current exhibition.
Randall Morgan. Amalfi: Moonlight Pattern, 1950. The Barnes Foundation, BF2538. © 2025 Estate of Randall Morgan
Speaker
Emma Nell Jacobs
Jacobs is a third-year PhD student and James D. McDonough Fellow in Queer Art History at the University of Pennsylvania. She specializes in 20th-century American art, with an emphasis on queerness, gender, race, and abstraction. Jacobs received a BA in art history and women’s studies from Vassar College and an MA in the history of art from Williams College.
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