Fall 2024 OLLI Digital Catalog

American Art in the Gilded Age (A218)

A – Art History

Take an in-depth look at American art in the age of Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, and William Merritt Chase. Topics include portraiture, impressionism, world’s fairs, and the rise of professional arts education in the U.S. This course focuses on the late 19th and early 20th centuries, ending with the Ashcan School and scenes of urban life. A sixth optional class is an in-person curator’s tour of the reinstalled galleries at the Biggs Museum of American Art in Dover.

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This offering meets for a total of 5 session(s).

INSTRUCTORS: Laura Fravel, Susan Salkin

FRAVEL, LAURA–Curator at the Biggs Museum of American Art in Dover. Previously worked in curatorial departments at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Winterthur Museum and Cooper Hewitt. Research interests include American Illustration and artists active in Delaware and the greater Philadelphia area.

SALKIN, SUSAN–B.A., social welfare, Penn State. Former deputy director of Delaware Division of the Arts and vice president of the board of trustees of the Biggs Museum of American Art. Previously managed a food co-op, a housing program, bookstores and a nonprofit music school.

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