Painters and Paintings in the Early American South

Please join us for our Painters and Paintings in the Early American
South symposium which will be held November 3-5, 2013, at Colonial
Williamsburg.

The symposium is offered in conjunction with our groundbreaking
exhibition of the same name which is now on view at the Art Museums of
Colonial Williamsburg through next September and features over 80
works created in or for the South between 1735 and 1800. About half of
the objects on view are on loan to the Foundation from many well-known
and respected museums and private collections like the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Virginia Historical
Society, the Corcoran, National Portrait Gallery, Museum of Early
Southern Decorative Arts, New York Historical Society, and the Gibbes
Museum of Art to name just a few.

The Program

November 3, Sunday

Noon-7 p.m. Conference registration. Art Museums of Colonial
Williamsburg, 326 West Francis Street, Williamsburg, Virginia. Hennage
Auditorium lobby.

5 p.m. Presiding. Laura Pass Barry, Juli Grainger Curator of
Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture and Manager for Curatorial
Outreach, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

Introduction to the Theme, Graham Hood, Carlisle H. Humelsine Chief
Curator Emeritus, Colonial Williamsburg. Hennage Auditorium.

6-7 p.m. Reception. Central Court.

November 4, Monday

8:30 a.m. Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg open for conference
participants. Coffee service available in the museum café. Breakfast
items available for purchase.

9 a.m. Welcome and opening remarks. Ronald L. Hurst, vice president,
collections, conservation, and museums, and Carlisle H. Humelsine
Chief Curator, Colonial Williamsburg. Hennage Auditorium.

The Social and Cultural Importance of Painting in the South. Maurie D.
McInnis, vice provost for academic affairs and professor of art
history, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.

Charlestonians Abroad: Painters and Paintings in the Carolina Low
Country. Angela Mack, executive director and chief curator, Gibbes
Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina.

10:45 a.m. Coffee break. Central court. 11:15 a.m. Back in the Day:
The Mystery Behind the Watercolor of Drayton Hall. Matthew Webster,
director, historic architectural resources, Colonial Williamsburg.

John Drayton’s Watercolors. Margaret Pritchard, senior curator, and
curator of prints, maps, and wallpaper, Colonial Williamsburg.

Jeremiah Theus: A Swiss Artist in Colonial Charleston. Laura Pass
Barry, Juli Grainger curator of paintings, drawings, and sculpture,
Colonial Williamsburg.

Noon Lunch on your own.

1:30 p.m. Presiding. Laura Pass Barry, Juli Grainger Curator of
Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture and Manager for Curatorial
Outreach, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

Degrees of Separation: English Portraiture and the American South.
Ellen G. Miles, curator emerita, Department of Painting and Sculpture,
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. Hennage
Auditorium.

2:15 p.m. Wollaston and Hesselius: Their Art and Influence in the
Early South. Carolyn J. Weekley, Juli Grainger Curator Emerita,
Colonial Williamsburg.

Stretch break.

3:00 p.m. Robert Feke, William Dering, and Other Case Studies in the
Conservation of Early Southern Art. Shelley Svoboda, paintings
conservator, Colonial Williamsburg.

4-5 p.m. Gallery tours with curators and conservators in exhibition.

November 5, Tuesday

8 a.m. Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg open for conference
participants. Coffee service available in the museum café. Breakfast
items available for purchase.

8:30 a.m. Presiding. Laura Pass Barry, Juli Grainger Curator of
Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture and Manager for Curatorial
Outreach, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

Thomas Coram: Charleston’s Earliest Landscape Artist. Sara Arnold,
curator of collections, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South
Carolina. Hennage Auditorium.

Charles Willson Peale in Maryland and Virginia. Carol Soltis, project
associate curator, Peale Collection Catalog, Philadelphia Museum of
Art.

Southern Synergy: The Philadelphia – Charleston Connection. Elle
Shushan, Elle Shushan Fine Portrait Miniatures, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.

10:15 a.m. Coffee break. Central court.

10:45 a.m. Early Virginia Paintings at the Virginia Historical
Society. William M. S. Rasmussen, lead curator and Lora M. Robins
Curator, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia.

John Durand: His Origins Revealed. Carolyn J. Weekley.

Frederick Kemmelmeyer: From Hessian Soldier to American Artist. Arthur
Nicholas Powers, fellow, Winterthur Program in American Material
Culture, Winterthur, Delaware.

Noon Lunch on your own.

1:30 p.m. Early Portraiture in the South and the West Indies. Katelyn
Crawford, doctoral candidate, University of Virginia, Charlottesville,
Virginia. Hennage Auditorium.

José Francisco Xavier de Salazar y Mendoza and the Visual Culture of
Spanish Colonial New Orleans. Cybèle Gontar, doctoral candidate in
American art, Graduate Center, City University of New York.

3 p.m. Coffee break. Central court.

3:30 p.m. Art Collecting in Virginia and Maryland, 1790-1830:
Expectations and Aspirations. Lance Humphries, independent scholar,
Baltimore, Maryland.

Southern Culture: Where Scholarship is Heading. Robert Leath, chief
curator and vice president, Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts,
Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

5 p.m. Program concludes.

The conference begins with an opening lecture and reception on Sunday
evening and is followed by two days of lectures, Monday and Tuesday.
We are offering a special student rate of $250 to qualifying full-time
students. For more information on the event and/or to register, please
visit our website www.history.org/conted or call 1-800-603-0948.