Bernstingle Memorial Lecture: Inner Intensity and Outer Calm
registration requested.
While in Paris for twelve years between the world wars, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet created powerful sculptures for which she has become best known – meditative portraits of black men, as well as androgynous, and sometimes racially ambiguous, busts and figures. This lecture by Dr. Theresa Leininger-Miller will examine Prophet’s education at the École des Beaux-Arts, and her relationships with influential figures such as W.E.B. DuBois, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, and Roland Hayes. Leininger-Miller will also discuss the impact of the Colonial Exposition of 1931, and the differing press reception Prophet received in France and the United States.
RISD Museum
20 N Main St, Providence
External Link:
https://risdmuseum.org/exhibitions-events/events/bernstingle-memorial-lecture