Rediscovering Judith Leyster

Описание: The Eda G. Diskant Memorial Lecture
Curator Nicole Cook shares what led her to highlight Judith Leyster’s painting The Last Drop and other women artists in the installation What Can Paintings Tell Us? She is joined by scholar Frima Hofrichter, who charts Leyster’s career and her pioneering research that reintroduced this artist to history.

Speakers
Nicole Elizabeth Cook is Program Manager for Graduate Academic Partnerships at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She holds a PhD in Art History with a specialization in early modern art.
Frima Fox Hofrichter is a professor at Pratt Institute in New York and author of Judith Leyster: A Woman Painter in Holland’s Golden Age and the forthcoming Women, Aging, and Art: A Crosscultural Anthology, among other titles.

About the Installation
What Can Paintings Tell Us? highlights discoveries from the museum’s recent research on several paintings from the 1400s through the 1700s. Featured are multiple works linked to female artists, including Judith Leyster, whose identity was lost and works misattributed for many years.

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