Lunchtime Lecture: Robert Henri’s California Portraits

12–1 PMFree with Museum admission

The great American realist Robert Henri is best known for his gritty views of New York and his poignant images of urban dwellers. But during a sojourn in California in the early twentieth century, he painted works that were in bright contrast to his earlier paintings, from striking portraits of working San Diegans to members of Los Angeles’s elite society. Derrick R. Cartwright, guest curator of the exhibition Robert Henri’s California Portraits: Realism, Race and Region, 1914–25, will explore the lasting significance of this work to our understanding of modernism and some of the less well-understood reasons for Henri’s continued interest in California as a place. Cartwright is director of University Galleries and professor of practice in the department of art, architecture, and art history at the University of San Diego.

Lunchtime Lectures take place on the first Wednesday of the month at noon in the Charlotte Wendel Education Center. Visitors are welcome to bring food and beverages.