Dr H. Alexander Rich gives a lecture at the Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art’s Holiday Member’s Reception called It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Impressionism to go along with the Museum’s exhibition, Dutch Impressionism: The Hague School, 1860-1930.
Read MoreEnjoy a special lecture of “Dutch Impressionism: The Hague School, 1860-1930” led by Dr. Willem Hoogsteder, owner and director of the Hoogsteder Museum Foundation
Read MoreDr. Alex Rich takes visitors through Rockwell/Wyeth: Icons of Americana!
Read MoreDr. Roy Kerr traces out N.C. Wyeth’s career against the backdrop of the development of American illustration
Read MoreFor the first time, Drinks with the Director, moves from a virtual only event to being recorded in front of a studio audience while being broadcast over Facebook Live.
Read MoreArtist Reynier Llanes speaks about his work during the Point of View Gallery Talk at the Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland, Florida.
Read MoreJoin Executive Director and Chief Curator Dr. Alex Rich of the Polk Museum of Art as he interviews Samuel Bak over Zoom during the Member’s Reception.
Read MoreJoin Executive Director Dr. Alex Rich as he takes visitors through the exhibition, Remembering Vilna: The Holocaust and the Art of Samuel Bak, at the Polk Museum of Art.
Read MoreJoin Executive Director and Chief Curator Dr. Alex Rich on a tour through Seen & Unseen: Photographs by Imogen Cunningham. This exhibition features 60 photographs by Cunningham, whose life — and career — traversed nearly a century.
Read MoreAt the member's reception on April 14th, 2023, Dr. H. Alexander Rich discusses the three featured exhibits at the Polk Museum of Art. The exhibits were Seen & Unseen: Photographs by Imogen Cunningham, In the Eye of the Mind: The Fantastic Realities of Steven Kenny, and New Eyes on the Permanent Collection.
Read MoreJoin artist Steven Kenny as he takes visitors through his exhibition, In the Eye of the Mind: The Fantastic Realities of Steven Kenny, at the Polk Museum of Art.
Read MoreFiber artist and quilter Lauren Austin from Maitland, Florida gives us her perspective on the work in her show Lauren Austin: Life in Quilts at the Polk Museum of Art.
Read MoreDr. H. Alexander Rich, the Polk Museum of Art’s Executive Director & Chief Curator gives a lecture on the Museum’s exhibit Edward Hopper and Guy Pène du Bois: Painting the Real.
Read MoreFlorida Southern College student and Intern at the Polk Museum of Art discusses jewelry in the Spirits Gallery at the Museum.
Read MoreFlorida Southern College chemistry major and intern at the Polk Museum of Art during the summer of 2022 discusses the psychology of color using art in the George Jenkins Student Gallery.
Read MoreAuthor and historian Gary Monroe lectures at the Polk Museum of Art on the Highwaymen, 26 Florida-based Afican-American landscape painters who managed to thrive in the Jim Crow South. Consisting of 25 men and 1 woman, these mostly self-taught artists produced a uniquely Florida art movement that is prized by collectors and the public today.
Read MoreDr. Alexander Rich, in dialogue with Ron and Clark Woodsby, provides an in-depth overview of the Polk Museum of Art's exhibition The Art of the Highwaymen: From the Woodsby Family Collection in 2022.
Read MoreRodin’s sculptures not only revived for a new century the expressive and naturalistic styles of antiquity, using ancient Greek sculptors’ medium of choice, but also propelled figurative sculpture into the modern age with emotion and pathos never seen before in the sculpted form.
Read MoreRodin’s sculptures not only revived for a new century the expressive and naturalistic styles of antiquity, using ancient Greek sculptors’ medium of choice, but also propelled figurative sculpture into the modern age with emotion and pathos never seen before in the sculpted form.
Read MoreDuring our Members Reception, Dr. H Alexander Rich spoke about the renowned French artist and sculptor, Aguste Rodin and dove into Rodin’s life-long pursuit of art, his sometimes controversial career, and his monumental contributions and influence on modern sculpture.
Read MoreThe Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida
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