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Highlights Tour // Color and Meaning: Red, White, and Blue

PriceFree
October 23, 2022 @ 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Theodore Earl Butler, (American, 1861 - 1936), Flags, 1918, oil on canvas, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Marlene and Crawford Taylor in honor of Margaret G. Livingston, Thomas N. Carruthers, Jr., and William M. Spencer, III, AFI.20.2005

For artists working in the United States, the colors red, white, and blue always carry meaning. Reconsider these colors in both obvious and unexpected places on this tour in the American art collection with Dr. Katelyn D. Crawford, The William Cary Hulsey Curator of American Art.

Each Highlights Tour offers an intimate look at specific areas of the BMA collection with a BMA curator or educator. Join us to learn something new about our collection of more than 27,000 works of art!

Tours begin in the Main Lobby of the BMA.