Curator's introduction
Edwin Austin Abbey: By the Dawn’s Early Light
Free
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About
Join Curatorial Fellow Sterre Overmars as she introduces 'Edwin Austin Abbey: By the Dawn’s Early Light', and shares insights into this Room 1 exhibition.
The exhibition showcases Abbey’s huge study for ‘The Hours’, the celestial scene that decorates the ceiling of the Representatives Chamber, Pennsylvania State Capitol, Harrisburg.
Edwin Austin Abbey was an American artist who spent much of his career in the UK. He produced ‘The Hours’ in his Gloucestershire studio, then the largest art studio in Europe, and from there both the study and mural were shipped to the US.
Celebrate Abbey and one of his most important works as we collectively re-discover this great artist.
Your speaker
Sterre Overmars is the Weinrebe Curatorial Fellow (Post-1800 Paintings) at the National Gallery, London. She holds two MAs in nineteenth and early twentieth century paintings (from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, and the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam), specializing in the influence of international art dealers and art collectors on the development of modern art in Belle Époque Paris.
Supported by
Elizabeth and Daniel Peltz OBE