“The Soul of Things—Direct Carving in American Art” by Karen Lemmey

February 19, 2015
Art Institute of Chicago

Karen Lemmey, Curator of Sculpture at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, examines the process of direct carving on the occasion of two recent acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago by sculptors John Flanagan and William Edmondson.

This lecture is part of the series “Lectures on American Art: Innovation and Scholarship.”