Virtual Salon: Caillebotte, Sep 4 @ 7pm
Please join us on Thursday, September 4 at 7 pm Eastern Time for a Virtual Salon on the Gustave Caillebotte exhibition organized by the Musée d’Orsay, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago. This online event is co-sponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) and the Dahesh Museum of Art. It is free and open to the public, but registration is required: https://tinyurl.com/Gustave-Caillebotte
We are fortunate to host four distinguished speakers to discuss this important exhibition: Scott Allan, Bridget Alsdorf, Gloria Groom, and Galina Olmsted.
Bios:
Scott Allan is Curator of Paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and co-curator of the recent exhibition “Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men.” A specialist in nineteenth-century European, and particularly French, art, he completed his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 2007 on Gustave Moreau French History painting. Since starting at the Getty in 2006, he has curated numerous exhibitions, including “Manet: A Bar at the Folies-Bergère” (2007), “The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme” (2010), “The Scandalous Art of James Ensor” (2014), “Unruly Nature: The Landscapes of Théodore Rousseau” (2016), “Manet and Modern Beauty” (2019–20), and “Reckoning with Millet’s Man with a Hoe” (2023).
Bridget Alsdorf is Professor of Modern European Art at Princeton University. The author of Fellow Men: Fantin-Latour and the Problem of the Group in Nineteenth-Century French Painting (2013) and Gawkers: Art and Audience in Late Nineteenth-Century France (2022), she is currently writing a book on love and collaboration in modern Scandinavian painting, photography, and silent film (ca. 1870–1920), informed by the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard.
Gloria Groom is currently Chair of Painting and Sculpture of Europe and the Winton Green Curator at The Art Institute of Chicago. Since joining the Art Institute in 1985, she has been involved in major exhibitions including “Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity” (2012-2013), “Van Gogh’s Bedrooms” (2016), “Gauguin” (2017), “Manet and Modern Beauty” (2019), “Cezanne” (2022), and this summer’s exhibition, “Caillebotte: Painting His World.” In 2007, Dr. Groom was awarded the medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Republic and, three years later, was made Officier in the same order. In 2016, she was awarded the title of Chevalier in the Legion of Honor.
Galina Olmsted joined the Minneapolis Institute of Art in 2024 as associate curator of European art. She previously worked at the Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University, where she organized a wide range of exhibitions including “Blanche Hoschedé-Monet in the Light” (2025). She has also held curatorial roles at the National Gallery of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. A specialist in 19th- and early 20th-century European art, Olmsted contributed to both “Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter’s Eye” (2015) and “Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men” (2024).
Please contact Michelle Foa with any questions: mfoa@tulane.edu