Scarsdale Adult School Catalog Fall/Winter 2024-25
Georgia O’Keeffe from New York to New Mexico The American West has inspired artists for centuries with its natural beauty and majestic landscapes. In the early twentieth century, Georgia O’Keeffe began her journey west from New York City after a passionate love affair with ground breaking photographer and modern art gallery owner Alfred Steiglitz. Restless to leave the urban landscape behind, she left to paint her unique new visions of the Southwest around Taos, New Mexico, creating what have become some of the most iconic paintings in modern art of landscapes, nature, and found objects. Through a wide range of images, a revealing profile of the artist, and videos of the artist discussing her work, explore the art of Georgia O’Keeffe and her enduring legacy as one of the leading women of modern art in the twentieth century. BOB POTTER (see bio for “John Singer Sargent and the Gilded Age”). Tuesday, January 28 • 11:00am-12:00pm • Zoom • Course 12944 • $28 Edward Hopper, Reginald Marsh, George Bellows, the New York of Dreams and Reality
As America transitioned from the Gilded Age of the late 1800s into the new realities of the twentieth century, painters like Edward Hopper, Reginald Marsh, and George Bellows presented a different view of American life painting scenes of New York as immigrants who populated the lower East Side, the neon glitter and sideshow spectacles of Coney Island’s boardwalk, and the urban landscape's beauty and isolation. View iconic paintings of these American masters, learn their biographic details, and see videos that capture a new realism in
American art. BOB POTTER (see bio for “John Singer Sargent and the Gilded Age”). Tuesday, February 4 • 11:00am-12:00pm • Zoom • Course 12945 • $28 Winslow Homer’s America
Manet, Renoir, and the Art of the Impressionists The impressionists were considered radicals in their time. Artists like Manet and Renoir violated the rules of academic painting. They
Considered to be one of America’s greatest artists, Winslow Homer emerged after painting scenes of Union soldier’s lives during the Civil War to create compelling paintings of a new nation recovering from war's cataclysm as it looked to a better future. From rural landscapes to vivid seascapes, artists like Eastman Johnson and Thomas Eakins joined Homer in portraying a post Civil War America in a wide range of iconic works that present a uniquely American experience during this transformative era. BOB POTTER (see bio for “John Singer Sargent and the Gilded Age”). Tuesday, February 11 • 11:00am-12:00pm • Zoom • Course 12946 • $28
constructed their pictures with freely brushed colors. Their subjects were the people who populated their everyday lives, from family and friends to fellow artists, set in real scenes and locations wearing the fashion of modern Parisian life. Understand what defines impressionism, explore the iconic works of the leading Impressionist painters, and delve into these artists' lives and culture as their new way of seeing and painting revolutionized art. BOB POTTER (see bio for “John Singer Sargent and the Gilded Age”). Tuesday, February 25 • 11:00am-12:00pm • Zoom • Course 12947 • $28
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