Lecture | Charles Duncan, Executive Director of the Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation, Sunday, December 7, 2025 2:00 PM
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Sunday, December 7, 2025 2:00 PM
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Lecture | Charles Duncan, Executive Director of the Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation
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Sunday, December 7, 2-3 p.m.Join Charles Duncan for a presentation about first-generation Abstract Expressionist artist Richard Pousette-Dart (1916–1992). Coinciding with the exhibition Altered States: The Etchings of Richard Pousette-Dart, this talk will introduce the artist’s career and philosophies pertaining to abstract art while offering an in-depth consideration of a series of hand-colored etchings created by Pousette-Dart ca. 1980. This presentation will also explore how Pousette-Dart championed the universal nature of art and intuitive approaches to artmaking, which come to full light through the layered processes of his sensitively-exquisite etchings. Questions such as “when is an artwork finished?” and “how do we categorize types of art?” will be considered alongside Pousette-Dart’s contributions to the emergence of the Abstract Expressionist movement during the 1940s and his late-career approaches to art making. Altered States is the first museum exhibition dedicated to Richard Pousette-Dart’s printmaking and many examples are being shown for the first time.
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Images:
Richard Pousette-Dart, Sylvia (Spring, Rocks, and Daffodils), 1979-81, painted 1985-88, Acrylic paint over aquatint, with scraping, printed in dark gray ink on wove paper, Image: 30 3/4 × 42 5/16 in. (78.1 × 107.5 cm), Courtesy of the Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation
Richard Pousette-Dart, Night Effigies, 1980, Etching with acrylic on paper, Image: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm), Courtesy of the Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation
Richard Pousette-Dart, Naples Paths, 1979, Etching with acrylic on paper, Image: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm), Courtesy of the Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation
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