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“Mythmakers: The Art of Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington” with Dr. Diana Greenwold

During her thought-provoking presentation, Dr. Diana Greenwold will explore two major figures in 19th-century American art and the surprising confluences between their careers. Based on her 2020 exhibition and exhibition catalogue, Dr. Greenwold proposes that these two artists, though seemingly removed from one another in their chosen subject matter, nonetheless explored similar basic ideas of late 19th-century American life. Diana is the Lunder Curator of American Art at the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution. She was formerly the Curator of American Art at the Portland Museum of Art, where she oversaw the museum’s collection of American painting, sculpture, and decorative arts. Her recent exhibitions include Mythmakers: The Art of Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington (2020) and In the Vanguard: Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, 1950-69 (2018). Previous exhibitions have explored historic and contemporary art related to Herman Melville’s Moby Dick and shows on Maine’s Bicentennial and Colonial American portraiture. Diana received her Ph.D. in the History of Art from the University of California, Berkeley.