Mark your calendar for this exclusive opportunity as Dr. Wendy Hitchmough hops across the pond to dive into details from her new biography Vanessa Bell: The Life and Art of a Bloomsbury Radical. Emeritus senior lecturer at the University of Sussex, Dr. Hitchmough presents new scholarship on works in the Rollins Museum of Art Collection by artists Vanessa Bell and Roger Fry, centering Bell, as a key figure in the development of modernism. Bell, her sister Virginia Woolf, and Fry were pivotal members of a consortium of painters, novelists, and critics who pioneered a distinctive visual style and a shift in cultural and societal attitudes. They were known as the Bloomsbury Group.
Join us Tuesday, November 18 at 6pm as Rollins Museum of Art hosts Dr. Hitchmough as a Thomas P. Johnson Distinguished Visiting Scholar corresponding with Portrait of a Movement: A New Approach to the Bloomsbury Group. This exhibition celebrates the U.S. debut of Roger Fry’s Summer in the Garden (1911), a significant portrait of Vanessa Bell, and foregrounds the exchange of ideas, illuminating the group’s dynamic dialogue with European modernism, gender, domesticity, and one another. At its core, Bloomsbury was a conversation—an artistic and intellectual dialogue that blurred the boundaries between painting and literature, criticism and creation.
Attend in person to view works by Bell, her sister Virginia Woolf, artists Duncan Grant and Walter Richard Sickert among others from the Rollins Museum of Art Collection, or participate via livestream then take a stroll through the gallery via our virtual view. There will be a Q & A with Dr. Hitchmough following this lecture.
Attend In Person
Tuesday, November 18 at 6pm
Rollins Museum of Art | 1000 Holt Ave. – 2765 Winter Park, FL 32789
Attend Virtually
Tuesday, November 18 at 6pm
Vanessa Bell (British, 1879-1961) Portrait of Mary St. John Hutchinson, 1915 Oil on canvas. Gift of Kenneth Curry, Ph.D. ’32 1998.14
Purchase the Book at the Museum Shop
The Rollins Museum of Art Shop is filled with unique handmade treasures, books, and more. Purchase your copy of Vanessa Bell: The Life and Art of a Bloomsbury Radical at Rollins Museum of Art, reviewed on theartnewspaper.com
Learn more about this engaging exhibition
Summer in the Garden
Read an article by Dr. Wendy Hitchmough in the Yale University Press that explores Summer in the Garden a painting of Vanessa Bell by fellow Bloomsbury Group artist Roger Fry, on view for the first time in the U.S. at Rollins Museum of Art.
Explore Portrait of a Movement: A New Approach to the Bloomsbury Group
Explore Portrait of a Movement: A New Approach to the Bloomsbury Group at Rollins Museum of Art. Learn about tours in English and Spanish, virtual views and more. Admission is FREE!