Book Discussion and Museum Tour
We’ve partnered with The Long Island Museum for a collaborative book discussion. The program is a one-of-a-kind reading experience, where the museum exhibit enhances the conversation about the book.
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
2:00 – 4:00 p.m. at the Museum Art Gallery
Educators from the Long Island Museum will guide us through the exhibit The Power of Two: Artist Couples of Long Island. Then we’ll be discussing the book, Foursome: Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keefe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury by Carolyn Burke, led by Librarian Carolyn Emerson. Registration required. Residents and nonresidents welcome. Click here to register starting April 12. Emma Clark cardholders will have a copy of the book reserved for them. You’ll be notified when to pick up a book. Nonresidents are responsible for obtaining their book through their home library.
*The closest parking is in two parking lots on Blydenburgh Lane, on the left. Meet at the Art Gallery at the top of the hill.
About The Long Island Museum Exhibit:
The Power of Two: Artist Couples of Long Island – Artists often work in close contact with one another as a way to encourage their artistic and creative innovations, forming clubs, schools, and colonies that have produced some of our most groundbreaking art. All of the couples presented in this exhibition were brought together by art, and chose to join their domestic and family life with their creative output and profession. Examining the influences within these partnerships, differing arrangements can be seen, from deliberately collaborative to unexpectedly subconscious. Mary Nimmo and Thomas Moran together established East Hampton as a burgeoning artist colony with the creation of their home, The Studio, in 1884. He taught her to etch, and she conquered the medium to become internationally recognized. Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock retreated to their remote Springs studio in 1945 where gestural painting was pushed to its limits, and where Krasner decided that Pollock’s genius was the one to promote and support, even after his death. Judith and Gerson Leiber, over the course of a remarkable 70 year marriage, guided one another to success on the national stage in both the fashion and art worlds, poetically passing away just hours apart on the same day in 2018. These historic couples established Long Island as a place that nurtures artistic partnerships, and contemporary pairs continue this tradition, including Bastienne Schmidt and Philippe Cheng, Lautaro Cuttica and Isadora Capraro, and Jeremy Dennis and Brianna L. Hernández. This exhibition features over 50 artworks comparing and contrasting the work produced by 14 artist couples of Long Island, from the Morans in the 1880s through contemporary couples working today.
About The Book:
Foursome: Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keefe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury by Carolyn Burke. A portrait of the intense relationship among Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, Paul Stand and Rebecca Salsbury explores how their strong personalities, passions and aesthetic ideals shaped their bonds and influenced 20th-century art.
Questions? Email askus@emmaclark.org
