Member Lecture: Camille Claudel

Emerson Bowyer, Searle Curator in Painting and Sculpture of Europe, traces the tumultuous life and triumphant artistry at the center of Camille Claudel.
A renegade artist, sculptor Camille Claudel fought against the social currents of her time to pursue her fiercely independent artistic vision. Her inventive and expressive depictions of the human form-whether in clay, plaster, bronze, and stone-tackled emotionally charged themes of love, loss, and desire that resonate loudly over a century later.