The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art invites you to Building a Legacy:
Collecting American Paintings for Kansas City-

A Symposium in Honor of Crosby and Bebe Kemper on Saturday, October 20,
2007.

The symposium also celebrates the publication of The Collections of the
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: American Paintings to 1945.

Speakers and their topics:

Dr. Carrie Rebora Barratt, Metropolitan Museum of Art,
on John Singleton Copley;

Dr. Sarah Burns, Indiana University,
on Winslow Homer and Eastman Johnson;

Dr. Erika Doss, University of Notre Dame,
on Thomas Hart Benton;

Dr. Kathleen Foster, Philadelphia Museum of Art,
on Thomas Eakins;

Dr. Erica Hirshler, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
on John Singer Sargent;

Dr. Franklin Kelly, National Gallery of Art,
on Frederic Edwin Church;

Dr. Bruce Robertson, University of California, Santa Barbara,
on William Sidney Mount

Additional information and event registration will be available at
http://www.nelson-atkins.org/
beginning May 31.

Questions regarding the symposium can be directed to the Department of
American Art at jnaussnelson-atkins.org or by calling 816.751.1335.

The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: American Paintings to
1945 will be available June 1 through the Museum Store or University of
Washington Press.

Margaret C. Conrads
Samuel Sosland Curator of American Art
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak St.
Kansas City, MO 64111

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