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Curator's Perspective: Duncan Phillips: Champion of American Art

Presented by Frist Center for the Visual Arts at Frist Center for the Visual Arts

February 3, 2012

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This talk is being held in conjunction with To See as Artists See: American Art from The Phillips Collection. Founded in Washington, D.C., a decade before the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art opened in New York City, The Phillips Collection has championed the very best American art and artists since opening its doors in 1921. In this talk, Susan Behrends Frank, Ph.D., associate curator for research for The Phillips Collection and curator of To See as Artists See, will speak about the extraordinary vision of Duncan Phillips, who made an institutional commitment at the end of World War I to champion American art and encourage American artists of independent vision who looked beyond the strictures of the academy at a time when other institutions were unwilling to do so. For more than 50 years, until his death in 1966, Phillips promoted the work of living American artists, giving them his patronage and encouragement when they needed it the most. In so doing, Phillips, and the museum that carries his name, became a significant force in American modernism, advocating for an American art that could find unity in a diversity of voices.

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    Frist Center for the Visual Arts

    919 Broadway
    Nashville, TN 37203

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    February 3, 2012

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    Friday 12:00pm

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