Emerson Bowyer on Antonio Canova | New York Studio School

Spring 2024 Evening Lecture Series: Emerson Bowyer "Canova: Sketching in Clay," recorded on February 28, 2024.
Emerson Bowyer is Searle Curator, Painting and Sculpture of Europe, at the Art Institute of Chicago. A specialist in 18th- and 19th-century French and British art, he has previously worked at the Frick Collection, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. His exhibitions include David d’Angers: Making the Modern Monument (Frick Collection, 2013), and Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (Met Breuer, 2018). The Art Institute is currently presenting two exhibitions co-conceived by Bowyer, Canova: Sketching in Clay (November 19, 2023-March 18, 2024) and Camille Claudel (October 7, 2023-February 19, 2024).
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