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Gallery Talk: The History of an Image

Talk/Lecture
Early American Gallery
FREE
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Indigenous group by fire in open landscape; village, hills, trees, cloudy sky in background.
James Wooldridge (ca. 1635 - ca. 1695), Indians of Virginia, ca. 1675, Oil on linen, 29 3/4 x 42 3/4 in. (75.6 x 108.6 cm), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2006.10. Photography by Dwight Primiano.

Join Museum Educator Olivia Gutierrez for a discussion about the painting Indians of Virginia by James Wooldridge. Gutierrez will help us explore the history of the images within the painting, the artist who originally created the images, who copied the images, and what purpose the images served.

Free, no tickets required.

About the Speaker

Olivia Gutierrez Headshot
Photo by Iron Lotus Creative / Stephen Ironside

Olivia Gutierrez is the museum educator of Adult Public Programs at Crystal Bridges and is in charge of in-gallery programs. She holds a master’s of art in art history in which she focused on the visual cultures of the Americas.