African Modernism in America, 1947-67

Perrin Lathrop, co-curator of African Modernism in America, 1947-67, leads a tour of the exhibition. A book signing for the exhibition catalogue follows.

Perrin M. Lathrop is the Assistant Curator of African Art at the Princeton University Art Museum. She received her PhD from Princeton University in 2021. Her research and teaching explore the interlocking intellectual histories and networks of nationalism, Pan-Africanism and modernism that informed art produced under the strictures of colonialism in Africa. This work has been supported by Princeton, the Smithsonian, the Paul Mellon Centre and the Warhol Foundation and has appeared in African Arts, the Journal of African History, and Savvy Journal and in volumes produced by the Newark Museum, the Princeton University Art Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, Harvard University, Phaidon and Skira. Lathrop was the University of Maryland-Phillips Collection Postdoctoral Fellow in Modern and Contemporary Art History for the 2021–22 academic year.

This event takes place during Third Thursdays—visit The Phillips Collection during our free extended hours from 5-8 pm!

Just announced! A limited number of seats have opened up for the Phillips Music Concerts featuring Andile Khumalo and Ensemble Dal Niente (November 12) and Rebeca Omordia, solo piano (November 26)—during this event, attendees will have an in-person, limited opportunity to reserve concert tickets at the discounted member price.

 

IMAGE: Peter Clarke (South African, 1929-2014), That Evening Sun Goes Down, 1960, Gouache on paper, 21 1/2 x 17 in., Fisk University Galleries, Nashville, Gift of the Harmon Foundation, 1991.313 © 2022 Peter Edward Clarke / DALRO, Johannesburg / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy American Federation of Arts. Funding for the conservation of this artwork was generously provided through a grant from the Bank of America Conservation Project