How Did a Baptist Minister Come to Own Hundreds of Edward Hoppers? How Did They Then End Up at the Whitney Museum?
Gail Levin, PhD will be interviewed by Artists Talk on Art's president, Douglas I. Sheer at 7PM EST Monday, January 23rd in a Zoom dialogue on the simmering 'Edward Hopper Whitney Museum controversy.'
NEW ZOOM LINK: Join us ... Monday, January 23rd, 2023 at 7:00 PM EST for an exclusive dialogue!
Gail Levin is a Distinguished Professor of art history, fine & performing arts, American studies, and women’s studies at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, of the City University of New York. The acknowledged authority on American realist painter Edward Hopper, she is author of books and articles on this artist, including the catalogue raisonné and Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography.
Her work on twentieth century and contemporary art has won international acclaim, been widely published, and translated in America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Articles range from theory of artists’ biographies to explorations of the intersection of American and Asian cultural studies. She has also written on the art of women artists in diverse historical contexts. Her frequent focus on women artists and Jewish artists, led to biographies of Judy Chicago and Lee Krasner and a major study of Theresa Bernstein. During 2015-16, Levin held a Distinguished Fulbright Chair in India and was a Fulbright Specialist in Mongolia in 2019. She also shows her own artwork and publishes fiction.
Douglas I. Sheer was one of three artists (with Lori Antonacci and Robert Wiegand) who conceived and organized the critically acclaimed Artist Talk On Art, in 1974, to provide a platform to share opinions and thoughts for critical dialogue in the arts. ATOA’s historic archive was organized by Sheer. It includes the words and images of over 8,500 artists, critics, educators, curators, museum staff, collectors and historians was acquired by the Archives of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution in 2016. In all, ATOA has held over 1,000 talks.
Sheer lives in Woodstock with his wife, the artist and writer Nora Licht. He continues to paint and to exhibit widely.
He serves on the Board of Directors and exhibition and programming committees of the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild. He chairs its Byrdcliffe Forum sub-committee. Sheer also serves on the education and public engagement committee of the Samuel Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz.
He is the President of Artists Talk on Art and its Chairman Emeritus. Doug Sheer art images are found at www.douglasisheer.com