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Talk | Alicia G. Longwell on the Parrish at 125 Years
May 26, 2023, 6 pm - 7:30 pm
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$5 Members | $16 Adults (Nonmembers) | $12 Seniors | Free for Students, Children
As the Parrish celebrates its landmark anniversary, the Museum presents the first of a series of lectures and conversations that delve into its rich and storied history. In 1952, Rebecca Bolling Littlejohn assumed the presidency of the Parrish’s Board of Trustees and began a crusade that would rename, rebrand, and revive the waning institution and bring it into the 20th Century, including the acquisition of the first William Merritt Chase paintings and also works by contemporary East End artists Fairfield Porter, Larry Rivers, and John D. Graham. Join Chief Curator Emeritus, Alicia G. Longwell, for a reflection on this remarkable innovator while recalling her own four-decade career at the Museum—so often inspired by Mrs. Littlejohn’s stirring legacy.
Longwell served as the Parrish Art Museum’s Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator, Art and Education for over three decades until her retirement in October 2022. She received her Ph.D. from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, where her dissertation topic was John Graham. Throughout her tenure, she was integral in building the Museum’s collection through identifying and pursuing acquisitions, including major works by Ross Bleckner, Mary Heilmann, Lonnie Holley, Elizabeth Peyton, David Salle, Alan Shields, and Joe Zucker.
Among her most notable curatorial achievements are Sand: Memory, Meaning and Metaphor (2008), John Graham: Maverick Modernist (2017), and Affinities for Abstraction: Women Artists on Eastern Long Island, 1950-2020 (2021). Longwell ushered the Museum into its new building in Water Mill, planning the inaugural installations of the Parrish collection for the 2012 opening that featured the exhibition Malcolm Morley: Painting, Paper, Process (2012). She has organized numerous survey exhibitions including Dorothea Rockburne: In My Mind’s Eye (2011) and North Fork/South Fork: East End Art Now (2004), as well as solo exhibitions on the work of artists Barbara Bloom, Marsden Hartley, Frederick Kiesler, Alan Shields, Esteban Vicente, and Jack Youngerman, among many others.
Friday Night Programming is made possible, in part, by Weill-Cornell Medicine – Southampton and The Corcoran Group.
Talk | Alicia G. Longwell on the Parrish at 125 Years
May 26, 2023, 6 pm - 7:30 pm
REGISTER
$5 Members | $16 Adults (Nonmembers) | $12 Seniors | Free for Students, Children
As the Parrish celebrates its landmark anniversary, the Museum presents the first of a series of lectures and conversations that delve into its rich and storied history. In 1952, Rebecca Bolling Littlejohn assumed the presidency of the Parrish’s Board of Trustees and began a crusade that would rename, rebrand, and revive the waning institution and bring it into the 20th Century, including the acquisition of the first William Merritt Chase paintings and also works by contemporary East End artists Fairfield Porter, Larry Rivers, and John D. Graham. Join Chief Curator Emeritus, Alicia G. Longwell, for a reflection on this remarkable innovator while recalling her own four-decade career at the Museum—so often inspired by Mrs. Littlejohn’s stirring legacy.
Longwell served as the Parrish Art Museum’s Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator, Art and Education for over three decades until her retirement in October 2022. She received her Ph.D. from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, where her dissertation topic was John Graham. Throughout her tenure, she was integral in building the Museum’s collection through identifying and pursuing acquisitions, including major works by Ross Bleckner, Mary Heilmann, Lonnie Holley, Elizabeth Peyton, David Salle, Alan Shields, and Joe Zucker.
Among her most notable curatorial achievements are Sand: Memory, Meaning and Metaphor (2008), John Graham: Maverick Modernist (2017), and Affinities for Abstraction: Women Artists on Eastern Long Island, 1950-2020 (2021). Longwell ushered the Museum into its new building in Water Mill, planning the inaugural installations of the Parrish collection for the 2012 opening that featured the exhibition Malcolm Morley: Painting, Paper, Process (2012). She has organized numerous survey exhibitions including Dorothea Rockburne: In My Mind’s Eye (2011) and North Fork/South Fork: East End Art Now (2004), as well as solo exhibitions on the work of artists Barbara Bloom, Marsden Hartley, Frederick Kiesler, Alan Shields, Esteban Vicente, and Jack Youngerman, among many others.
Friday Night Programming is made possible, in part, by Weill-Cornell Medicine – Southampton and The Corcoran Group.
