Painter John Ward Lockwood teaching a studio art class at UT
Modern Times Lecture Series
The Founding of the UT Studio Arts Program and its Influence on American Modernism
Martha Doty Freeman
SUnday, january 25, 2025 | 2:30pm - 4:00pm
**Doors at 2:00pm; Lecture at 2:30PM
In Person and online!
Tickets
$10 General Admission | $5 Student | $0 NCHM Member
In 1938, painter and muralist John “Ward” Lockwood accepted a job as professor of art at the University of Texas. There he organized a new art department by hiring talented young artists who helped to develop the educational program. As a result the core curriculum of painting, sculpture, drawing, and design was supplemented with courses that reflected the instructors' interests, such as graphic arts and mural painting. Lockwood encouraged faculty members to continue to produce and exhibit their work and arranged for students' work to be exhibited regularly in spite of limited facilities, thus ensuring a continued artistic vitality within the program.
The UT Studio Arts program would produce many influential Modernist artists and have a profound effect on American art. Martha Doty Freeman explores this influence and how it rippled through the Modernist movement.
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About the Speaker
Martha Doty Freeman
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