Pablo Picasso and Manierre Dawson: Separate Paths to Similar Destinations A lecture by Randy J. Ploog, Professor of Arts History in the College of Arts and Architecture at Penn State This lecture will demonstrate how civil engineering courses led Manierre Dawson to produce paintings that can be mistaken for Picasso's Cubism. Dawson attended the Armour Institute of Technology (now the Illinois Institute of Technology), Chicago and graduated in 1909.
Dr. Ploog specializes in early twentieth-century American and European art, especially Dada and Surrealism. He first came to Penn State as a curator in the Palmer Museum of Art, where he curated exhibitions of drawings by Benjamin West, paintings by Emile Nolde, and paintings and prints by Florence Putterman, among others. Prior to coming to Penn State in 1986, he curated an exhibition from the collection of Herb and Dorothy Vogel. For the last fifteen years, Dr. Ploog’s research has concentrated on Manierre Dawson.
Free with museum admission; Tickets and reservations not required.
For further information, please call (212)396-5460 or contact lectures@metmuseum.org.
Friday, September 30
The Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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