Duncan Phillips’s Support of Avery, Rothko, and Gottlieb

The Phillips Collection’s Living Room is a series of intimate conversations featuring artists, authors, curators, collectors, and museum professionals. These programs offer rare opportunities to engage in discussions that connect the museum’s collection with broader dialogues.

Join Renée Maurer, Associate Curator, for a behind the scenes talk exploring the exhibition Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko: By the Sea examining the ways their shared interests and creative dialogue shaped their work.

About Renée Maurer

As The Phillips Collection’s associate curator, Renée Maurer has curated, co-curated, and managed exhibitions including Timeless Mucha: The Magic of Line (2025); Breaking it Down: Conversations from the Vault (2024); Up Close with Paul Cezanne (2024); Pour Tear Carve: Material Possibilities in the Collection (2023); Frank Stewart’s Nexus (2023); Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful (2021); Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the Modernist Tradition (2020); A Modern Vision: European Masterworks from The Phillips Collection and its tour (2017-2020); Toulouse-Lautrec Illustrates the Belle Époque (2017); Gauguin to Picasso: Masterworks from Switzerland, the Staechelin & Im Obersteg Collections (2016); American Moments: Photographs from The Phillips Collection (2015); Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life: 1928-1945 (2013); Jasper Johns: Variations on a Theme (2012). She has also developed focused installations featuring the art of Sam Gilliam, William Christenberry, and Morris Louis. Previously, Maurer was a research assistant at the National Gallery of Art.

Accessibility Service

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