Monday, October 21, 3 – 3:30pm
Mickalene Thomas. Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe: Les Trois Femmes Noires (detail), 2010. The Rachel and Jean-Pierre Lehmann Collection. © 2024 Mickalene Thomas
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 Mickalene Thomas’s Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe: Les Trois Femmes Noires. The talk takes place in the Roberts Gallery.
In Focus Gallery Talks are 30-minute discussions held in the Barnes exhibition 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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