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This lecture is now available in podcast format. Listen to season 2, episode 9 of Polk's America on the museum website, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Spotify or Google Podcasts.
Doctoral candidate Alba Campo
Rosillo will deliver an online lecture on the portraits of James Knox Polk
painted by George Peter Alexander Healy between 1846 and 1858 for the President James K. Polk Home and Museum. In
this lecture, Campo Rosillo will discuss presidential portraiture in relation
to Grand Manner aristocratic painting. She will reveal the strong grip the
plantation economy had on the country's political power, as well as the
intimate connection between cotton plantations and aristocratic life-styles at
the time. The lecture, titled "From President to Aristocrat: G.P.A. Healy's
Portraits of President James Polk," will take place via Zoom on Tuesday, Oct.
27, 2020, from 8 p.m. EDT to 9 p.m. EDT. Registration
is required.
The
lecture's content is part of Campo Rosillo's dissertation work on Healy's portraiture.
Entitled "Artistry and Industry: The Portraiture of George Peter Alexander
Healy, 1830-1871," her dissertation studies George Peter Alexander Healy's
portraiture to reveal how the artist embraced industrial culture. Industrial
capitalism shaped Healy's career as a source of patronage as well as
inspiration, sparking the artist to redefine the portrait genre and rethink its
marketability. By looking at Healy's engagement with industrial networks,
materials and methods, as well as resources, venues and volume, Campo Rosillo
argues that Healy both learned from and shaped industrial culture with his
portrait practice.
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Alba Campo Rosillo's lecture on the portraits of James Knox Polk painted by George Peter Alexander Healy, originally delivered at the President James K. Polk Home and Museum on Oct. 27, 2020, is now available on the Polk’s America podcast.
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