Members Opening–Creating Connections: Self-Taught Artists in the Rosenthal Collection

Thursday, June 8, 2023 at 5–7 p.m.

Great Hall and Fountain Room
Free for Members

Museum members are invited to view the exhibition Creating Connections: Self-Taught Artists in the Rosenthal Collection before it opens to the public and enjoy lite bites and a cash bar in the Fountain Room (Gallery 126). Not a member? Join today. 

About the exhibition:

Connected by a desire to communicate through art making—and by astonishing creativity and ingenuity—these artists, most from the 20th century, speak volumes. Their media include drawings, paintings, sculpture, and needlework. Their art materials range from the conventional to creatively repurposed ones like housepaint, cardboard, rocks, bottle caps, cans, even discarded scraps of wood.  

Image credit: Ralph Fasanella (American, 1914–1997), Meeting at the Commons—Lawrence 1912, 1977, oil on canvas, 50 x 120 in. (127 x 304.8 cm), Collection of Richard Rosenthal, © Estate of Ralph Fasanella

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