Talks & Conversations

The Art of Looking: Grace Hartigan, Summer Street

Broad strokes of paint create blocks of color in tones of emerald and celery green, topaz and sapphire blue, red, orange, bright yellow, white, and black in this abstract, vertical composition. A collection of peach-toned colors in the lower left quadrant could loosely represent a person. Other shapes give the impression of a room with a window and furniture, though details are left to our imagination.
Grace Hartigan, Summer Street, 1956, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Gift of Dorothy C. Miller), 2014.136.132

Grace Hartigan's Summer Street is the inspiration for this interactive conversation. Join us for a one-hour virtual session and share your observations, interpretations, questions, and ideas about this work of art.

These conversations will encourage you to engage deeply with art, with others, and with the world around you as you hone skills in visual literacy and perspective-taking.

The program is free, open to the public, and is designed for everyone interested in talking about art. No art or art history background is required. Ages 18 and over.

Due to the interactive nature of this virtual program, sessions are not recorded.

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