Curator Conversations
Throughout the year during free, public presentations, Norton curators provide insight and context to exhibitions they have organized and art and artists they have studied and admire.
VIRTUAL Curator Conversation: George Cohen, Chicago Avant-Garde Artist: A Conversation with Paul Cohen
Friday, October 30 / 7PM-8PM
ONLINE: George Cohen, Chicago Avant-Garde Artist: A Conversation with Paul Cohen
OCTOBER 30, 2020 / 7PM-8PM
Paul Cohen, son of artist George Cohen (1919-1999), discusses his father’s work with Ellen E. Roberts, Harold and Anne Berkley Smith Curator of American Art and organizer of the exhibition George Cohen: Artist of the Chicago Avant-Garde. This exhibition celebrates collector Ellen Stern’s recent gift of five works by George Cohen, a leading figure in Chicago’s avant-garde art world. With Cosmo Campoli, Leon Golub, and June Leaf, Cohen organized annual “Momentum Exhibitions” that led critics to dub the group a “new Chicago School.”
Free
George Cohen (American, 1919-1999), Loggia, 1962 (detail)
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