July 21, 2022
Legendary curator and art historian Lowery Stokes Sims led a panel discussion featuring Mimi Roberts and artist Carrie Mae Weems. Presented in conjunction with the New Museum's exhibition Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott, this conversation explored Robert Colescott’s far-reaching impact on art and culture and included an introduction from Lucas Museum Director and CEO Sandra Jackson-Dumont.
This conversation was co-hosted with the New Museum.
Lowery Stokes Sims, Carrie Mae Weems, Mimi Roberts
The Lucas Museum acquired Robert Colescott's monumental 1975 painting George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page from an American History Textbook in 2021. Writing about the painting in 1984 for Artforum, program participant Lowery Stokes Sims called it “a veritable masterpiece of unparalleled formal rigor and graphic grandeur,” which “radically rewrites the American national self-mythology, parodying the grandeur of historical genre painting while exposing the structural racial divides of the United States.” Read more about the acquisition.
The painting was on view in the New Museum's exhibition Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott.
