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    CHASE AND MORAN: TWO 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN MASTERS

    CHASE AND MORAN: TWO 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN MASTERS

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    Join us as Professor Emeritus Neill Slaughter presents a beautifully illustrated slide lecture which explains, among other things, how an English-born artist (Thomas Moran) helped convince Congress to declare Yellowstone our first National Park, as well as how the foremost art teacher in New York City in the late 19th century (William Merritt Chase), whose students included Robert Henri, Edward Hopper and Georgia O’Keefe, decided to inaugurate the first American plein-air painting summer school in Southampton, New York. This art history lecture, featuring two of the most famous artists of the mid to late 19th century, promises to delight and entertain us all.

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    About the lecturer(s)

    Neill Slaughter

    Neill Slaughter, Artist and Professor, graduated with a
    BFA degree in 1975 from the University of Georgia and received his MFA
    in 1978 from Indiana University. Professor Slaughter has taught fine
    arts courses at the university level as well as exhibited his drawings
    and paintings nationally and internationally for more than forty years.
    Having also lived and taught abroad as well as traveling extensively
    throughout the world, Slaughter in his paintings often reflects the
    social conditions of his surroundings. Among his awards and honors,
    Professor Slaughter has received a Ford Foundation Fellowship, a
    Scottish Arts Council Grant, an LMU Research Grant to Africa and a
    Fulbright Fellowship to India. In 2003 he was presented the David Newton
    Award for Excellence in Teaching granted by Long Island University, and
    in 2008 he mounted a thirty-year retrospective, which included a full
    color catalogue.

    Lecture Details

    Program
    Spring 2023
    Sessions
    1 lecture(s)
    Day & Time
    Tuesday, 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
    Date(s)
    May 23, 2023