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The Art Collections of Samuel and Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt: Uniting Art and Commerce
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The talk will take place in The Wadsworth Atheneum, located at 600 Main St, Hartford, CT 06103.Dates & Times
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There will be a reception beginning at 5 PM, the lecture will begin at 6 PM.
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This talk will explore the extraordinary art collections first formed by Samuel Colt during his rise to fame as an international arms manufacturer, and later, following his early death in 1862, his wife Elizabeth’s quest to form one of the finest private picture galleries in American during the Civil War era. Samuel Colt’s friendship with American artist George Catlin, famous for his depictions of Native Americans, led to an important commission of paintings by this artist that promoted Colt guns. Elizabeth’s friendship with the nation’s leading landscape painter and Hartford’s native son, Frederic Edwin Church, resulted in a picture gallery on the second floor of the Colt’s mansion Armsmear that rivaled those of other leading industrialists in the United States. The Colt’s vast fine art and historic arms collections were made a bequest to the Wadsworth Atheneum in 1906 by Elizabeth Colt.
Dr. Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser is the Alice Pratt Brown Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (appointed in 2010) where she completed work on the new American Paintings and Sculpture galleries which opened in January 2012. She has also served as co-curator for many exhibits at museums in the United States and internationally. She served as the Chief Curator, and Krieble Curator of American Painting and Sculpture at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art from 1997 to 2010. Dr. Kornhauser has a Ph.D. from Boston University with a specialty in American paintings and an M.A. from Cooperstown Graduation Programs, SUNY, Cooperstown, NY, in American Folk Art and Culture.
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Dr. Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser
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