Pablo Picasso’s Blue Period (1901-04) and the Legacy of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Pablo Picasso’s Blue Period (1901-04) and the Legacy of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes: Susan Behrends Frank, Aimée Brown Price and Kenneth Brummel In Conversation

Prior to joining the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2014, Kenneth Brummel held curatorial positions in several major art museums in the United States, including the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City. He holds a Master’s in Art History from The University of Chicago. Brummel’s area of specialty is late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century European and American art.



Susan Behrends Frank is curator at the Phillips Collection, where she has organized more than 20 exhibitions and lectured widely on the museum’s founder, Duncan Phillips. Her publications include David Smith Invents (2011) and Made in the USA: American Masters from The Phillips Collection, 1850-1970 (2014). Brummel andDr. Frank are co-organizers of the current exhibition Picasso: Painting the Blue Period, a multi-disciplinary reassessment of Picasso’s work during 1901-1904.



Aimée Brown Price, art historian (Ph.D. Yale University), author of two volumes on Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (Yale University Press, 2010), has contributed essays to The Art Bulletin, Art in America, the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, and numerous catalogues inter alia. Guest curator at The Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, as well as The Bunkamura and Shimane museums in Japan, she has taught and lectured extensively in the U.S.—including at the New York Studio School—and abroad. She was awarded a Chevalier in Arts and Letters from the French government.

IMAGE: Pablo Picasso, The Blue Room, 1901, Oil on canvas, 19 7/8 x 24 1/4 in., The Phillips Collection, Acquired 1927 © 2022 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York