Major “influencers” of their day, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse cast a long shadow over art of the 20th century and beyond, due to their long careers, international fame, and constant artistic innovation. Carter E. Foster, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs, Holly Borham, Assistant Curator of Prints & Drawings, and Claire Howard, Assistant Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, will explore how the artists’ new approaches to form, line, and color issued a challenge to which numerous Blanton artists–from modernists to contemporary figures–responded. Join a discussion about the issue of influence itself, and how artists grapple with towering figures through rejection, acceptance, or a struggle between the two. See this event on Facebook.
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About our Speakers
Carter E. Foster is Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Blanton Museum of Art, the University of Texas at Austin. He previously held curatorial positions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. He has written extensively on the history of drawing and contemporary drawing practice, as well as on the work of Edward Hopper and Ellsworth Kelly.
Holly Borham is Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Blanton Museum of Art, where she oversees the Julia Matthews Wilkinson Center for Prints and Drawings. At the Blanton, Holly curated Copies, Fakes, and Reproductions: Printmaking in the Renaissance, and coordinated the traveling exhibition, Medieval Monsters: Terrors, Aliens, Wonders. Her upcoming exhibition After Michelangelo, Past Picasso: Leo Steinberg’s Library of Prints, will open at the Blanton in March 2021. Holly earned her Ph.D in art history from Princeton University, where she also interned at the Princeton University Art Museum.
Claire Howard is Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Blanton Museum of Art. Her exhibitions at the Blanton include Ideas in Sensuous Form: The International Symbolist Movement, Lily Cox-Richard: She-Wolf + Lower Figs, and Joiri Minaya: Labadee. Claire came to the Blanton from the Menil Collection, where she was the 2016-2017 Vivian L. Smith Foundation Fellow. She previously worked at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Fabric Workshop and Museum, and interned at Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, and Wellesley College’s Davis Museum. Claire is a PhD candidate in art history at The University of Texas at Austin, writing her dissertation on the Surrealist movement and its cultural context in the 1950s and 60s. She earned an MA from The University of Texas at Austin and a BA from Wellesley College. She is a native of Philadelphia.
IMAGE CREDIT: Pablo Picasso, Minotaure aveugle guidé par une fillette dans las nuit [Blind Minotaur Guided by a Young Girl in the Night], 1933-34, aquatint and drypoint, 13 3/8 x 17 5/16 in., Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, 2002.1987
