Thursday, March 5, 2015

Gallery Walk: Edward Root, Patron of Moderns
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Free with exhibition admission
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Join us for an evening exploring Prendergast to Pollock with Mary Murray, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. Mary will discuss the remarkable life and legacy of collector Edward W. Root. Root supported progressive American painting from 1913, when he bought a Maurice Prendergast composition at the Armory Show, until the 1950s, when he acquired works by Pollock, Rothko, de Kooning, and other members of the New York School. Join us afterward to chat and enjoy light refreshments in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court.