[Watch] Interview between Samuel Bak and Dr. Rich at the Member's Reception

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[Watch] Interview between Samuel Bak and Dr. Rich at the Member's Reception

Join Executive Director and Chief Curator Dr. Alex Rich of the Polk Museum of Art as he interviews Samuel Bak over Zoom during the Member’s Reception.

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[Watch] Seen and Unseen: Photographs by Imogen Cunningham

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[Watch] Seen and Unseen: Photographs by Imogen Cunningham

Join Executive Director and Chief Curator Dr. Alex Rich on a tour through Seen & Unseen: Photographs by Imogen Cunningham. This exhibition features 60 photographs by Cunningham, whose life — and career — traversed nearly a century.

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[Watch] Seeing Things Differently: Lecture by Dr. H. Alexander Rich

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[Watch] Seeing Things Differently: Lecture by Dr. H. Alexander Rich

At the member's reception on April 14th, 2023, Dr. H. Alexander Rich discusses the three featured exhibits at the Polk Museum of Art. The exhibits were Seen & Unseen: Photographs by Imogen Cunningham, In the Eye of the Mind: The Fantastic Realities of Steven Kenny, and New Eyes on the Permanent Collection.

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[Watch] Lecture by Gary Monroe: Highwaymen Historian & Author

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[Watch] Lecture by Gary Monroe: Highwaymen Historian & Author

Author and historian Gary Monroe lectures at the Polk Museum of Art on the Highwaymen, 26 Florida-based Afican-American landscape painters who managed to thrive in the Jim Crow South. Consisting of 25 men and 1 woman, these mostly self-taught artists produced a uniquely Florida art movement that is prized by collectors and the public today.

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[Watch] Virtual Members Reception: Toulouse Lautrec & THe Belle Époque

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[Watch] Virtual Members Reception: Toulouse Lautrec & THe Belle Époque

Thank you for watching our Virtual Members Reception! We were thrilled to welcome Paul Firos, Toulouse-Lautrec Collection Owner & President of PAN Art Connection, Inc. as he chatted with Dr. Alex Rich about the collection and how the exhibition came to life in the Museum galleries.

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[Watch] Music & Dance In Painting Of The Dutch Golden Age

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[Watch] Music & Dance In Painting Of The Dutch Golden Age

This exhibition, custom-curated for the Polk Museum of Art at Florida Southern College by the Hoogsteder Museum Foundation of The Netherlands, showcases 27 Dutch and Flemish paintings from the 17th century, selected and organized around the unifying visual theme of music and dance. All the Masterworks in the exhibition come to the Museum from private European Collections and have not been seen by the wide public before.

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[Watch] A Brush with Herstory: Gabriela Gonzalez Dellosso discusses her paintings

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[Watch] A Brush with Herstory: Gabriela Gonzalez Dellosso discusses her paintings

Gabriela Gonzalez Dellosso is a premier portrait artist whose art historical knowledge is surpassed only by the skill of her brushwork. This exhibition features Dellosso’s tribute paintings to great but often-overlooked female masters of the past.

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[Watch] Ritual and Ceremonial African and Oceanic Art & Global Art of the 1970s

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[Watch] Ritual and Ceremonial African and Oceanic Art & Global Art of the 1970s

In this combined lecture, Dr. Alex Rich explains the source of two concurrent exhibits at the Polk Museum of Art. Spirits: Ritual and Ceremonial African and Oceanic Art from the Dr. Alan and Linda Rich Collection in one gallery and Global Art of the 1970s: From the SC Johnson Collection in another gallery.

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[Watch] Across the Atlantic: American Impressionism through the French Lens

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[Watch] Across the Atlantic: American Impressionism through the French Lens

This extraordinary exhibition, drawn entirely from the collection of the Reading Public Museum, explores the path to Impressionism through the nineteenth century, and the complex relationship between French Impressionism of the 1870s and 80s, and the American interpretation of the style in the decades that followed.

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