Cocktails with a Curator: Stubbs's "Portrait of Warren Hastings"
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- In this week’s episode of “Cocktails with a Curator,” join Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator Xavier F. Salomon as he considers the life of statesman Warren Hastings, who is depicted in a small watercolor from about 1791 by the prominent British artist George Stubbs. Explore the tumultuous career of Hastings, from his tenure as governor-general of India to a decade-long trial in Westminster Hall upon his return to England. This week’s complementary cocktail is a gin and tonic garnished with a slice of lime.
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Please, when the time comes,, and it will, and you with the other curators go back to work within the new normal, I do so much hope this will continue. I look forward to it every Friday. Thank you all so much and may good Fortune shine upon you.
I second that. Xavier F. Salomon is a cultural treasure and so is this program. Thank you Frick Collection for bringing this to us.
You have no idea how much one values your sensitive and erudite commentary on a simple small watercolor. What a treat. Now I shall enjoy a well deserved g&t!
Fascinating and comprehensive.
A great book and a wonderful presentation by X. Much appreciated.
May I suggest that your communications staff reach out to the online education world and offer all of your Frick Collection videos as resources? I can imagine these excellent programs - all of them - opening students’ understanding of historical immediacy. As a museum hound who now visits only in the virtual world, I am so grateful for this content, it is more than I could have ever received from any of my beloved in-person visits. Your work is inspirational and incredibly enriching.
Thank you so much for watching and writing in. I am head of Communications and very much appreciate your comment. We agree, and have been reaching out in the manner you suggest and will continue to do so. We've also been offering virtual visits to school groups via our Education team (more details on our website). Have a nice weekend...and stay tuned....
Very good idea.
K P I so enjoy these well thought out and researched conversations. Please continue them if possible From a Cape Cod fan
This is part of the National Endowment for the Humanities...
This series is excellent. Please consider an episode on Black artists, themes, or subjects in the collection. Thank you for bringing your wit and erudition to us each week.
Thank you Xavier. I enjoyed the Dalrymple book and to see the portraits of Warren Hastings here was a delight. Thank you.
Thank You for this fascinating lecture on how commerce and art
intersect; it reveals how colonialism
enabled the establishment of great
British and European museums -
filled with treasures obtained by
commercial endeavors. Xavier Solomon is as much a treasure as the art he describes.
I hope this series continues after Covid-19 disappears. It is truly an
example of making the very best
of an unpleasant and difficult situation.
great to watch each week
This series from the Frick has sustained me during this time of plague. I am fond of all the curators, but Mr. Solomon is especially engaging to me. I hope you will continue this series. Although many places are opening, I am not trusting of the the proported safety. I will be home, pretty much, and looking for you tube videos to keep me going.
So happy that I discovered this series. Thank you much for doing this.
Once again, a highlight of the week. So interesting, so informative. Thank you.
always so informative and well presented! Thank you ! I totally agree with other comments on "Cocktails with the Curator " and Travels with the Curator" series I hope they will continue ! Once again Grazie Mille !
Thank you Xavier. I look forward to your talks every week!
Fantastic summary of Hastings and loved the description of the portrait in the middle of the video
Time well spent, once again your choice of art work has led to a significant connection between, the sitter, and the artist. This program widens, once again, my appreciation for the power of art as a means to better understand, place, time and culture. Thank you
Words cannot describe the value to me of these art history lessons. We have visited The Frick more than once, but now are much better prepared to comprehend the background of pieces of art. Thank you from Elizabeth Fraser, currently sequestered in Arizona.
Every one of these chats over cocktails has been a delight-thank you! They're perfect nets into which you've collected so much fascinating detail, so beautifully chosen. I look forward to them every week, as I do the Travels with... and the Frick Five. I would love to hear the Curator speak about the wall decorations of the Boucher Room, especially my favorite: the baby Medea. Thanks again.
Thank you so much for this comprehensive, thoughtful, and erudite episode. I also hope that the series continues in some manner after the crisis.
This is such a wonderful treat each Friday - I really look forward to it and relish the information and insight into these works of art - It makes me wish that this could go on and on - selfish I know but living on the West Coast of Canada I am not sure when I will be able to return to NY and the Frick - the first museum I remember being taken to in NY.
Another Fantastic talk and video, these Cocktails with a Curator are very Informative. Thank you ever so much.
Excellent! Glad I found you!
I agree that this series should be extended to a more broader public. It is an efficient way of learning essential knowledge about historical contexts. The Frick Collection has been doing a great job that now is coming to a larger public. Please consider ways of extending the reach of your contribution. I can't way to go back to New York and see art presented in this series, which I have seen before, bit now with a new eyes and more perspective.
Thank you for your great talks!
Once again a fascinating talk delivered in the most companionable and erudite fashion. Thank you Xavier for providing an thoughtful oasis of calm at a difficult time.
Another enjoyable talk; thank you so much.
Although I emerged from Lockdown last week , I have been so much enjoying becoming reacquainted with the Frick that you and Amy have become essential viewing. I was delighted to see Watteau’s Fêtes Vênitiennes on the “Travels with ...” strand. It’s one of my favourites.
Gillian, Scotland.
Great mini-lecture! Thank you so much!
Very informative, as usual, thanks for the tip about the book.
Excellent
Thank you so much for these so interesting series.
Thank you. Fascinating.
Love the history around the art at the Frick museum!
Very interesting story, thank you.
Such a treasure of treasuring treasures from fabulous Frickian friends never to be forgotten.
I am in Toronto, and all your three programs were a real help during isolation.
Although the city is slowly opening, my age will limit the live activities, the courses that I attended are not there anymore
also we do not have the famous museums that you have
In New York.
Please try to continue these activities, both you and Aimee, and maybe in the future you can charge for viewing it. That will help your museum and you will do a great civic duty
Thanks
Judy
Very interesting. Thank you.
Well done!
Watching for the first time, from West Puget Sound, Washington State. This is so wonderful, THANK YOU so much for sharing this with all of us.
Seemed like a modest portrait but rendered larger than life in this interesting talk focused on a historical figure.
Thank you for such a wonderful series of talks, even if my 'cocktail' has to be a bedtime drink. 5 p.m. in NY is 10 p.m. in the UK! I particularly loved this week's talk on Sir Thomas More. The HD photograph of the painting is superb, showing every detail. I had no idea that you could see the individual grey hairs appearing on Sir T's chin. Keep safe.
Wendy, Cambridge UK
My wife Dawn & I enjoy this program so much. Thank you. From Tappahannock,VA.
Fascinating. Moving. I had read the review of The Anarchy- and now will read the book. And I plan to read more about Warren Hastings. Dottie, Chicago.
I spent a little time working in Mumbai in 2008 and got to experience a bit of the city. Your talk brought back some memories...I may look for a book on Warren Hastings to learn some more. Tx!
We have enjoyed this new lesson and we have so much appreciated the words that you said as conclusion. We understand that you, using art and culture, are struggling for a better world. Thank you. Saluti da Roma.
Fascinating comment on Stubbs portrait of Warren Hastings. Recently I acquired a portrait of Billy Adams a county Clare gent who died 1815. The portrait style very much based on Stubbs portrait which probably became known to the anonymous Irish artist through the print of the original portrait which u understand was made in 1795. Wonderful lesson in art history. And so easy to listen. Great teaching. From kilkenny In Ireland, John K.
Both of your series “Cocktails with a Curator “ and “Travels with a Curator” were great discoveries! I do appreciate your work in producing these episodes and the tasty drinks that you have coordinated with each! I was also curious about the print/painting that was behind you in the Hasting’s video. Are you able to tell me anything about it? Thank you so much
Hola from Key Biscayne, Fl. Cheers
Excellent! Shared ;->
It is difficult not to imagine what kind of puppy Stubbs would have drawn to represent this fellow, maybe a blond English cocker spaniel, which is a lovely dog.
So civilized!
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I am greatly enjoying your series. Please be more accurate with things like the Queen of England....it is more accurately called the United Kingdom ( at least for now )!!
3:09 resembles Dr. Fauci. ; )