A Closer Look
Closer Look is open to everyone curious about art! Learning and Community Engagement staff invites participants to look closely at a single artwork in the Norton’s Collection. We discuss the artwork, its potential meanings, and participants’ viewpoints.
A Closer Look: Fernand Léger, L’Homme à la cane (Man with a Cane), 1921
Tuesday, May 4 / 1PM-2PM
Tuesday, May 4 / 1pm
Fernand Léger, L’Homme à la cane (Man with a Cane), 1921
The Norton Museum of Art’s founder Ralph Norton greatly admired the medium watercolor which led him to acquire Fernand Léger’s modernist painting, L’Homme à la cane (Man with a Cane) in 1952. Widely known for his unique variation of Cubism, Léger painted flat, boldly colored representations of everyday objects, rendering forms in unsentimental and completely modern ways. In this virtual A Closer Look, join Kate Faulkner, Associate Curator of Education for Public Programs in an examination of L’Homme à la cane (Man with a Cane) and learn about Léger’s background, influences, and artistic legacy.
Free
Support for this program was provided by the Maurer Family Fund for Arts Education Endowment.