Gallery Talk | The Eight and American Modernisms

Join Docent Joan Kennedy for a tour of paintings by The Eight from the NBMAA permanent collection. These eight friends and colleagues drew artistic inspiration from each other; nevertheless, each artist’s style was unique. All eight of them exhibited together only once, in 1908 at the Macbeth Galleries in New York, where they were a sensation. Why? How did they impact the even more sensational 1913 Armory Show only five years later? How did that show impact The Eight? Come find out!

Joan Kennedy, a Docent since 2006 at the NBMAA, has over the years given dozens of Masterpiece tours and also many tours of special exhibitions, including Edward Burtynsky: Earth Observed; The Poetry of Nature: Hudson River School Landscapes from the New-York Historical Society; For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design; The Beyond: Georgia O’Keeffe and Contemporary Art; and more.  She has also developed and delivered talks to the docent corps on American sculpture, Maurice Prendergast, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Annie Albers.  Joan holds a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College in biology, an M.S. from UCONN in biobehavioral sciences, and a Master of Theological Studies from Boston College. All her careers have included teaching in various forms.