Back to Mediterranea: American Art from the Graham D. Williford Collection at Boca Raton Museum of Art

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This exhibition explores the rich diversity of the Mediterranean region through the work of late 19th and early 20th-century American artists, who capture the distinctiveness of its flora, the legacy of the Greco-Roman past, and the influence of Christianity and Islam.

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Boca Talk - Mark White, Ph.D. - Mediterranea: American Art from the Graham D. Williford Collection

Sun, Apr 9, 2017 from 3:00 – 4:00pm UTC
Dr. Mark White, Director of the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma explores how American artists understood, interpreted, and portrayed Mediterranean culture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. American tourism of Europe after the Civil War demonstrated increasing interest in southern Europe, the Holy Land, and much of northern Africa. American artists became interested in the aspects of nature and culture they believed to define the Mediterranean: its distinctive flora, the legacy of the Greco-Roman past and the influence of Christianity and Islam.

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501 Plaza Real
Boca Raton, Florida, US
Monday, Closed
Tuesday–Wednesday, Friday, 10am–5pm
Thursday, 10am–7:30pm
Saturday–Sunday, 12pm–5pm