Art Bites Gallery Talk
Friday, April 25, 2025, 12:15 – 12:45pm EDT
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- Cost
- Free | Meet in G Street Lobby
- Event Location
- In-person | Smithsonian American Art Museum
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- Building
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Part of series
Join SAAM’s research fellows for this lunchtime series of gallery talks as they share new discoveries about artworks on view. Learn the stories behind these objects and what each one tells us about the diverse cultural landscape of the United States.Isaiah Bertagnolli, Douglass Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, discusses Thomas Hart Benton’s Achelous and Hercules.
Image credit: Thomas Hart Benton, Achelous and Hercules, 1947, tempera and oil on canvas mounted on plywood, 62 7/8 x 264 1/8 in. (159.6 x 671.0 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Allied Stores Corporation, and museum purchase through the Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program, 1985.2
Image credit: Thomas Hart Benton, Achelous and Hercules, 1947, tempera and oil on canvas mounted on plywood, 62 7/8 x 264 1/8 in. (159.6 x 671.0 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Allied Stores Corporation, and museum purchase through the Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program, 1985.2
