November 21 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Hear inspiring insights into The Triumph of Nature: Art Nouveau from the Chrysler Museum of Art from one of its curators, Dr. Lloyd DeWitt.
DeWitt will discuss the curves, natural motifs, and refined elegance of Art Nouveau furniture, glass, and works, and examine the influence of economy, trade, and culture in France that led to this brief, but intense, artistic movement.
About Lloyd Dewitt
Lloyd DeWitt became the second Janet and Richard and Janet Geary Curator at the Portland Art Museum in February of 2024, with oversight of the Museum’s works of European and American Art before 1930. He is currently designing the reinstallation of the American and European galleries planned for 2025 as well as the installation of French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, from the Brooklyn Museum.
DeWitt was the Irene Leache Curator of European Art and Chief Curator of the Chrysler Museum of Art from 2016-2023 where he installed Eyes of the Storm: Paul McCartney Photographs 1962-1964, and exhibitions on Munch, Escher, P. L. Nervi, Toulouse-Lautrec, torah pointers, Thomas Jefferson, Henri Farré, Piranesi and also installed A New Collector’s Cabinet. His exhibition Triumph of Nature is touring through 11 venues in the US. HIs upcoming project Farm to Table: Art, Food and Identity in the Age of Impressionism will tour through four venues, opening October 2024.
At the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, DeWitt organized installations of works by Michelangelo, Rodin, J. M. W. Turner and Wilhelm Hammershøi. As Johnson Collection Curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art his projects included Rembrandt, van Ruisdael, Bosch, Bruegel, Teniers, Kalf, Memling and the Morrison Master.
DeWitt is a graduate of the University of Guelph (Canada) and UMass-Amherst, and earned his doctorate at the University of Maryland, College Park with a dissertation on the work of Rembrandt’s early friend and rival Jan Lievens, which became an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.
Art Talk: Lloyd Dewitt is supported by the Alice L. Walton Foundation.
The Triumph of Nature: Art Nouveau from the Chrysler Museum of Art is presented by Terri and Chuck Erwin.
The Triumph of Nature: Art Nouveau from the Chrysler Museum of Art is organized by the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, and toured by International Arts & Artists, Washington, D.C.
In-kind support provided by Moon Distributors Inc. and O’Connor Distributing.
