Symposium
What's Modern about American Art, 1900-1930?
June 19-20, 2009
Chicago and Milwaukee

Featuring both established scholars and new voices in the field of
American art and visual culture, this two-day, two-city symposium will
address the question of American modernism. Through an innovative,
interactive format consisting of a series of brief "keyword" talks,
panel discussions, and exhibition gallery talks, the many manifestations
of American modernism in progressive painting and design between 1900
and the early 1930s will be investigated. Sample keywords include
museums, transatlantic, realism, and authenticity, among others.
Pulitzer Prize winning historian Michael Kammen will deliver the keynote
lecture, "Visual Culture in Progressive America: Anomalies and
Achievements."

The symposium coincides with two exhibitions at the Milwaukee Art Museum
(MAM): The Eight and American Modernisms, organized by the Terra
Foundation for American Art (TFAA) in collaboration with the New Britain
Museum of American Art and MAM; and The Artistic Furniture of Charles
Rohlfs, organized by MAM, the Chipstone Foundation, and American
Decorative Art 1900 Foundation (ADA1900). The symposium is being
convened by TFAA in collaboration with MAM and ADA1900.

For more information or to register, call 312.654.2278 or visit
http://terraamericanart.org/modernism-symposium.

Program Schedule:

Friday, June 19 - Modernism & Painting
Chicago Cultural Center, presented in conjunction with the Chicago
Department of Cultural Affairs

Allan Antliff (radicalism)
Debra Bricker Balken (transatlantic)
Marcia Brennan (abstraction)
Robert Cozzolino (studio/figure painting)
Erika Doss (art histories)
John Fagg (realism)
Wendy Greenhouse (cities)
Barbara Jaffee (pedagogy)
Jennifer Marshall (museums)
Kimberly Orcutt (dealers & collectors)
Sarah Vure (advocates & critics)
Jason Weems (American scene)

Keynote Lecture
Hosted by the Art Institute of Chicago
Michael Kammen, Visual Culture in Progressive America: Anomalies and
Achievements

Saturday, June 20 - Modernism: Painting and Design
Milwaukee Art Museum

Virginia Terry Boyd (ornament)
Peter John Brownlee (summary of Friday's proceedings)
Joseph Cunningham (Art and Design 1900)
Sarah Fayen (orientation to The Artistic Furniture of Charles
Rohlfs/authenticity)
Elizabeth Kennedy (orientation to The Eight and American Modernisms)
Amy Ogata (antimodernism)

Gallery Presentations:
Peter John Brownlee (William Glackens)
Joseph Cunningham (Charles Rohlfs: works from 1903-1907)
Sarah Fayen (Charles Rohlfs: works from 1897-1901)
Elizabeth Kennedy (Maurice Prendergast)
Leo G. Mazow (Everett Shinn)
Kimberly Orcutt (Arthur Davies)
Judith H. O'Toole (George Luks)
Sarah Vure (Robert Henri & John Sloan)
Jochen Wierich (Ernest Lawson)