Monday, March 10, 3 – 3:30pm
Charles Demuth. Two Trapeze Performers in Red (detail), c. 1917. The Barnes Foundation, BF644. Public Domain.
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 Charles Demuth’s Two Trapeze Performers in Red. The talk takes place in Room 17.
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.
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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