| McGee curates “David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History” | McGee curates “David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History” | ;mcgee; | 6/11/2021 4:00:00 AM | | <p><strong>Julie L. McGee</strong>, associate professor of Africana studies and art
history and director of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Research
Center, is the curator of <a href="https://www.portlandmuseum.org/david-driskell">“David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History,”</a>
which will be on view from June 19-Sept. 12, 2021, at the Portland
Museum of Art, in Portland, Maine. This traveling exhibition includes
work by Driskell from the University of Delaware Museums collections.
This month, McGee and former Portland Museum of Art Chief Curator
Jessica May will participate in a virtual conversation on the exhibition
to kick off Member Preview Day on June 18 and Member Appreciation
Weekend June 18-20. Previously, this exhibition was on view at the High
Museum of Art in Atlanta, and during that stop, McGee discussed it with
Tyler Green on the Modern Art Notes Podcast, <a href="https://manpodcast.com/portfolio/no-490-juan-gris-david-driskell/">episode 490</a>.
After Maine, the exhibition will travel to the Phillips Collection in
Washington, D.C., and the Cincinnati Art Museum. The exhibition
catalogue, published by Rizzoli Electa, is available from <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780847869923">Indiebound</a> and <a href="https://amzn.to/3d1sRiY">Amazon.</a></p> | <img alt="" src="/ForTheRecord%20Images/africana_210611_McGee_Julia.jpg" style="BORDER:0px solid;" /> | Uncropped Vertical | | GP0|#04611ae7-92e6-4159-9e62-ac61be0875a2;L0|#004611ae7-92e6-4159-9e62-ac61be0875a2|Performances;GTSet|#0a3b6244-764a-4413-b2f1-4b4c15da868c | 2021.00000000000 | https://www.cas.udel.edu/Lists/ForTheRecord/DispForm.aspx?ID=30 | |
| McGee curates exhibition honoring David Driskell | McGee curates exhibition honoring David Driskell | | 2/5/2021 5:00:00 AM | | <p><strong>Julie McGee</strong>, professor of art history and Africana studies, <a href="https://www.arthistory.udel.edu/news/Pages/mcgee-curates-david-driskell-exhibition.aspx">curated a traveling exhibition</a> that honors artist and historian David Driskell (1931-2020). McGee, who guest curated, spent years organizing the exhibition, selecting approximately 60 paintings and works on paper with dates ranging from 1953 to 2011. <em>David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History</em> opens at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta on Feb. 6.</p> | | Uncropped Vertical | | GP0|#04611ae7-92e6-4159-9e62-ac61be0875a2;L0|#004611ae7-92e6-4159-9e62-ac61be0875a2|Performances;GTSet|#0a3b6244-764a-4413-b2f1-4b4c15da868c | 2021.00000000000 | https://www.cas.udel.edu/Lists/ForTheRecord/DispForm.aspx?ID=35 | |
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