Conservation of Edward Mitchell Bannister Paintings with Gwen Manthey 🖼️
January 21 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Join Gwen Manthey, Paintings Conservator, Smithsonian American Art Museum, for a talk about her research related to the conservation of Edward Mitchell Bannister’s paintings and practice.
Gwen Manthey is Paintings Conservator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s visible Lunder Conservation Center, and assists with SI-wide initiatives, including the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative’s joint efforts with FEMA and Blue Shield, when possible. Prior to joining the Smithsonian, she was at the Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, MD), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MA), and the Chrysler Museum of Art (Norfolk, VA), and has maintained a private practice since 2013. She has been studying the paintings of Bannister in earnest for five years, which was transferred to SAAM’s collection after the incorporation of the Frederick Douglas Institute into the Smithsonian Institution as the National Museum of African Art.
This talk is organized in conjunction with the new exhibition Hidden Blackness: Edward Mitchell Bannister (1828-1901) curated by Dr. David Woods, opening Friday 24 January @ 7:00 pm.
owens@mta.ca
