CAM Presents: Impressionism and French Culinary Culture

Thursday, June 12, 2025 from 7–8 p.m.

Members: Free
General public: $20
Students & Children: $5

Tickets required. Ticket sales will open one month before the event. 

Join us as we explore the intersections of French art and culinary culture in the 1870’s through the 1890’s with a talk by Andrew Eschelbacher, PhD, the exhibition curator of Farm to Table: Food and Identity in the Age of Impressionism. Food had long been central to French identity but was never more so than in these tumultuous years. From representations of sumptuous ingredients and severe privation, bountiful meals and agrarian crises, the era's depictions of markets and gardens, farmers, chefs, and restaurants were central to the complex effort to define what it meant to be French. 

About the speaker:
Andrew Eschelbacher serves as Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. He has previously held positions as Director of Curatorial Affairs at the American Federation of Arts (AFA), a Chester Dale Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Susan Donnell and Harry W. Konkel Associate Curator of European Art at the Portland Museum of Art (Portland, ME), and as an Assistant Professor at the Virginia Military Institute. 

Eschelbacher is the curator and editor of Farm to Table: Art, Food, and Identity in the Age of Impressionism, and has previously curated exhibitions and edited catalogues including Monuments and Myths: The America of Sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel Chester French as well and A New American Sculpture: Lachaise, Laurent, Nadelman, and Zorach. He holds a PhD and Master of Arts in art history from the University of Maryland, College Park and Tulane University, respectively, as well as a Bachelor of Arts from Davidson College. 

image credit: Victoria Dubourg Fantin-Latour, (French, 1840–1926), Still Life with Brioche, c. 1890, oil on canvas, 13 1/8 x 17 in., Dixon Gallery and Gardens; Museum purchase with funds provided by the estate of Cecil Williams Marshall and, by transfer, Mr. and Mrs. Morrie A. Moss, 2019.6

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