Francis Davis Millet : Mural impresario and muralist in the American Renaissance
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$10 | General admission
FREE | Salmagundi members

About the Event
Join art historian and Millet scholar Gina M. D’Angelo for a lecture on the American artist and former Salmagundi Club member Francis Davis Millet (1846-1912). Gina will present an overview of Millet’s career while concentrating on one of his signature achievements–Millet’s mural decorations and supervision of the mural program at the 1893 World’s Fair, which revitalized the American mural movement, and enhanced the stature of mural painting in the United States.
About the Speaker
Gina M. D’Angelo is an independent art historian specializing in 19th- and early 20th-century American Art. She holds an M. Phil and Ph.D. in Art History from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her interest in Millet began with her doctoral thesis, “Francis Davis Millet – The Early Years of ‘A Cosmopolitan Yankee,’ 1846-1884.” Current projects include research on Millet’s mural decorations. She has presented lectures on the subject at the 20th Annual American Art Conference, the Southeastern College Art Conference, The Hudson County Justice Brennan Court House, the Old Bridgewater Historical Society, and East Bridgewater Public Library. She co-curated “The Boltons of Pelham Priory” (2010) exhibition at the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum; contributed essays to American Paintings to 1945, The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (2007) and to The Oxford Dictionary of American Art; and served as adjunct professor of art history at Marymount Manhattan College. Previously, she was a research assistant in American Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and organized exhibitions on various topics in American Art at the Pelham Art Center. She is a member of the Curatorial Committee of the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum and an advisor to the Francis Davis Millet Catalog Raisonné Project.
Hungry?
Ticketed attendees who would like to stay for drinks and dinner should make dining reservations in advance via our Reservations page with the message “Millet dinner”.



