[Audio] Seen & Unseen: Photographs by Imogen Cunningham

[Audio] Seen & Unseen: Photographs by Imogen Cunningham

When looking at the photographs of Imogen Cunningham, we encounter images that reflect vital developments in 20th century art and photography — as well as the voice and eye of an undersung master of the camera. Cunningham was a female member of the male-dominated f/64 group of photographers and, despite the art-world’s tendency to overlook women artists, left her indelible stamp on the history and development of modern photography. In Seen & Unseen: Photographs by Imogen Cunningham, featuring work from across Cunningham’s expansive seven-decade career, we invite you to see why this American artist is heralded as one of the most important pioneers of photography — regardless of her gender.

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[Watch] Seeing Things Differently: Lecture by Dr. H. Alexander Rich

[Watch] Seeing Things Differently: Lecture by Dr. H. Alexander Rich

At 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.

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[Audio] Edward Hopper and Guy Pène du Bois: Painting the Real Audio Guide

[Audio] Edward Hopper and Guy Pène du Bois: Painting the Real Audio Guide

An original Polk Museum of Art exhibition, Edward Hopper and Guy Pène du Bois: Painting the Real comprises approximately sixty works and focuses on Hopper and Pène du Bois, two very thematically different but stylistically-overlapping artists who became lifelong friends from the time of their earliest studies at the New York School of Art.

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[Watch] Lecture by Gary Monroe: Highwaymen Historian & Author

[Watch] Lecture by Gary Monroe: Highwaymen Historian & Author

Author 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.

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[Watch] Rodin Gallery Talk by Chandler Talkington Fletcher

[Watch] Rodin Gallery Talk by Chandler Talkington Fletcher

Rodin’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.

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[Virtual] Crash Course: Towards a More Inclusive Art History

[Virtual] Crash Course: Towards a More Inclusive Art History

Who decides which artists grab all the textbook and museum attention? Which artists have been understudied and why? Indeed, for every Picasso or Pollock, there is a lesser known artist whose contributions have been overlooked or underseen. This month, we're bringing you a Crash Course that aspires to open up an important conversation about creating a more inclusive art history.

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[Essay] The Art of the Highwaymen: From the Woodsby Family Collection

[Essay] The Art of the Highwaymen:  From the Woodsby Family Collection

The Florida Highwaymen occupy an unusual and fascinating space in the history of art. When one mentions “the art of the Highwaymen” to many Floridians, their ears perk up and their eyes brighten, with a glowing and knowing fondness for homegrown art. When you mention “the art of the Highwaymen” to non-Floridians, most look at you with little or no recognition of what you are talking about.

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