Friday, November 13, 6 pm
Steiner Auditorium

Alexander Nemerov, PhD, Chair, History of Art Department, Yale University

FREE. Between 1906 and 1909, in the last few years of his life, Frederic Remington painted some of his greatest pictures—a series of nighttime scenes dramatically lit by firelight and moonlight. In this talk, Nemerov will discuss these moody, mysterious paintings and their relation to the technologies of electric lighting and flash photography then coming in to widespread use. Nemerov also writes about the American visual culture of different periods and has authored a book and several essays about Remington and the art of the American West.