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Duncan Phillips’s Support of Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko

with Renée Maurer

Living Room

West Parlor (House, Floor 1)

Sold Out / In-Person

This event is sold out. Standby seating is offered on a first come, first served basis depending on availability. In-person requests start at 11:30 am in the admissions lobby. Standard ticket rates apply.

Living Room promo image with Renee giving a gallery talk

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.

As part of a series of programs supporting Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko: By the Sea, join Renée Maurer, Associate Curator, for a talk examining how the exhibition brings to life the friendship and creative dialogue among the three artists, and Duncan Phillips’s encouragement of 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.

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