Hazard, Risk, and Protection in Anglo-American Art: From West to Turner

Friends of American Art and Design Members are invited to an evening of talks about innovation in 18th-century Anglo-American art. The featured speaker, Dr. Matthew Hunter, associate professor and department chair of art history and communication studies at McGill University, will discuss the era’s appetite for experimenting with unconventional pictorial media and strategies for managing art’s risks. Courtney June Books, assistant paintings conservator at the Saint Louis Art Museum, will briefly introduce an example of such experimentation—the Museum’s recently acquired and conserved painting Daniel Interpreting to Belshazzar the Writing on the Wall by Benjamin West, now on view in Gallery 338.

Registration is required. Please RSVP before March 3 to 314.655.5390 or collectors.circle@slam.org.

Complimentary garage parking

Collectors Circle programs at the Saint Louis Art Museum are presented by the Betsy and Thomas Patterson Foundation.