Author David Lubin to Give Lecture at Newport Art Museum
Saturday, July 06, 2019
The Newport Art Museum is set to host a lecture by author David Lubin titled “Whitney at War: Healing, Death, and Memory in the WWI Sculptures.”
The lecture will take place on Thursday, July 11 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Lubin’s lecture will begin at 6 p.m. with cocktails and a book signing to follow.
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About Whitney at War
Best known today as a pioneer collector of modern painting and sculpture who founded the Whitney Museum of American Art, during her lifetime Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875-1942) was better known as a sculptor.
She was trained in Paris and won prestigious commissions for her work. At the start of the First World War, she voyaged to France to establish a field hospital at the front, where she nursed dying and convalescent soldiers.
On her return to the States, Whitney began a series of bronze figural sculptures that, under the collective title Impressions of War, depicted the military and medical scenes she had witnessed herself or heard about from patients.
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