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Art and Life in America: A Celebration of the Legacy of Oliver Larkin and American Art at Smith College October 16, 1999 / Wright Hall, Smith College

9:30-10 a.m.	Registration and coffee/tea
10 a.m.-noon	John Connolly, Provost and Dean of the Faculty Welcome ........................................................ John Davis, Priscilla Paine Van der Poel Professor of Art History, Smith College Introduction: Oliver Larkin and Smith College ........................................................ Amy Kurtz '96, Ph.D. Candidate, Yale University When Old Woman Meets New: Thomas Eakins's In Grandmother's Time and Smith College ........................................................ Patricia Junker, Associate Curator of American Art, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Thomas Cole's Prometheus Bound: Allegory and Abolition ........................................................ Alan Wallach, Ralph H. Wark Professor of Art and Art History and Professor of American Studies, The College of William and Mary Oliver Larkin's Art and Life in America: Between the Popular Front and the Cold War
noon-1:30 p.m.	Buffet Lunch at the College Club (registration and fee required; please see registration form) View exhibitions at the Smith College Museum of Art -- American Spectrum: Paintings and Sculpture from the Smith College Museum of Art and Oliver Larkin
1:30-3:30 p.m.	Suzannah Fabing, Director, Smith College Museum of Art Remarks ........................................................ Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, Chief Curator and Kriebel Curator of American Painting and Sculpture, Wadsworth Atheneum American Art and Social History: New Directions ........................................................ Michele Bogart '74, Professor of Art History, The State University of New York at Stony Brook Lowbrow/Highbrow: Charles R. Knight, Art Work, and the Spectacle of Prehistoric Life ........................................................ Linda Muehlig, Associate Curator of Painting and Sculpture, Smith College Museum of Art Past Perfect/Future Tense: The Smith College Museum of Art at the Millennium
3:30-5 p.m.	Smith College Museum of Art The museum galleries will remain open until 5 p.m. to allow symposium guests the opportunity to view the special installations of American art on display there.
4-6 p.m.	Tea at the Manse, Northampton As a celebratory ending to the day's events, tea and light refreshments will be served at The Manse, one of Northampton's most distinguished residences, where in 1942 Oliver Larkin created a series of murals on Northampton's history. (Registration and fee required; please see registration form.)

Registration for the symposium, lunch, and tea will be accepted by mail, on a first-come, first-served basis, until October 1, 1999. The symposium is free; however, seating is limited, and we encourage early registration. After October 1, registrations for the presentations at Wright Hall will be accepted as space permits. We regret that we are not able to accept registrations after October 1 for the lunch buffet or the afternoon tea. Fees: Symposium ­ free Lunch Buffet - $12 Tea at The Manse - $15

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