Wyeth Foundation for American Art Programs

This yearly program, which alternates between a lecture and symposium, encourages an appreciation for the complexity and creativity of the art of the United States. Established in 2003, these programs are supported by the Wyeth Foundation for American Art.

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2023 :  Latinx Art and the Intimacy of Dislocation

Roberto Tejada, University of Houston

2021 :  Prioritizing Indigenous Communities and Voices: Curating in This Time

Patricia Marroquin Norby, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2019 :  Art Is an Excuse: Conceptual Strategies, 1968–1983

Kellie Jones, Columbia University

Six bunches of harvested corn close to us lead back to two people planting fields, which in turn lead back to a red barn and white house in this horizontal landscape painting. The shocks of corn are tied into rounded, pyramidal shapes on a ground streaked with brown dirt and green growth. In the center of the composition and in the distance, a person on a horse-drawn wagon hands a sack or other object down to a person standing at the back of the wagon. Vibrant green hills roll back to red and white structures to the left and a row of dark green trees on the horizon to the right. In the top third of the painting, a wave of white clouds seems to crest against a jewel-blue sky. The curves of the land are slightly exaggerated, giving the painting a stylized look. The artist signed and dated the painting in the lower left corner, “Benton 48.”

2017 :  The Panorama and the Globe: Expanding the American Landscape in World War II

Cécile Whiting, University of California, Irvine

Past

Staking Claim: Latinx Art and US American Experiences
Wyeth Foundation for American Art Symposium, 2023

Feminism in American Art History
Wyeth Foundation for American Art Symposium, 2020

The American Still Life
Wyeth Foundation for American Art Conference, 2018

Artists Panel: The African American Art World in Twentieth-Century Washington, DC
Wyeth Foundation for American Art Symposium, 2017

The Art of the Name: Soldiers, Graves, and Monuments in the Aftermath of the Civil War
Kirk Savage, University of Pittsburgh
Wyeth Lecture in American Art, 2015

Reversing American Art
Jennifer L. Roberts, Harvard University
Wyeth Lecture in American Art, 2013

Between the Lines: Philip Guston and “Bad Painting”
Bryan J. Wolf, Stanford University
Wyeth Lecture in American Art, 2011

Minstrelsy “Uncorked”: Thomas Eakins’ Empathetic Realism
Richard J. Powell, Duke University
Wyeth Lecture in American Art, 2009

Ground Swell: Edward Hopper in 1939
Alexander Nemerov, Yale University
Wyeth Lecture in American Art, 2007

Thomas Eakins and the “Grand Manner” Portrait
Kathleen A. Foster, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Wyeth Lecture in American Art, 2005

Friends and Rivals: Copley, West, Peale, Trumbull, and Stuart
Jules David Prown, Yale University
Wyeth Lecture in American Art, 2003

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