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The Smithsonian American Artwork Museum offers a six-element on the internet lecture series that examines the profound effect of Alexander von Humboldt, a renowned Prussian naturalist and explorer and a single of the most influential figures of the 19th century. Talks by historians of artwork and science and up to date artists handle how Humboldt’s observations and strategies from 200 years ago resonate with even increased relevance right now in the facial area of weather transform.
Registration is required.
Speakers
Eleanor Jones Harvey, senior curator, Smithsonian American Artwork Museum

September 16, Humboldt and the United States: Artwork, Character, and Culture
Andrea Wulf, author

September 23, The Invention of Mother nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World
Randall Griffin, professor of artwork history, Southern Methodist University

October 7, Georgia O’Keeffe’s Aerial River Collection, Gaia, and the “Web of Life”
Dario Robleto, artist-in-home, University of Houston, Cullen Higher education of Engineering

October 14, The Curious Confront Eternity
Tom Lovejoy, professor of environmental science, George Mason University

October 21, Alexander von Humboldt: Polymath of His Time
George Steinmann, artist, musician, and researcher

Oct 28, Looking from In: Art in the Horizon of the UN Agenda 2030
This series is portion of the on the internet programming developed in conjunction with Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Artwork, Nature, and Tradition. This landmark exhibition, arranged by Eleanor Jones Harvey, examines Humboldt’s effect on five spheres of American cultural development: the visible arts, sciences, literature, politics, and exploration, amongst 1804 and 1903. The exhibition facilities on the wonderful arts as a lens by which to comprehend how deeply intertwined Humboldt’s tips ended up with America’s emerging id, grounded in an appreciation of the landscape. Humboldt’s quest to fully grasp the universe—his issue for weather change, his taxonomic curiosity centered on New Globe species of flora and fauna, and his perception that the arts were as important as the sciences for conveying the resultant feeling of ponder in the interlocking features of our planet—make this a venture evocative of how art illuminates some of the troubles central to our connection with nature and our stewardship of this earth.
Additional data about the exhibition and updates about traveling to the museum are at americanart.si.edu.
Book

The companion catalogue, posted by the Smithsonian American Art Museum in affiliation with Princeton College Push, shows how Humboldt influenced a community of like-minded men and women who would go on to embrace the spirit of exploration, decry slavery, advocate for the welfare of Indigenous Individuals and extol America’s wilderness as a signature component of the nation’s perception of self. Eleanor Jones Harvey traces how Humboldt’s concepts affected the transcendentalists and the landscape painters of the Hudson River university, and laid the foundations for the Smithsonian, the Sierra Club, and the Nationwide Park Services.
Credit
Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Artwork, Character, and Lifestyle is organized by the Smithsonian American Artwork Museum with generous assist from Joanne and Richard Brodie, Billings and John Cay, Fern and Hersh Cohen, Sheila Duignan and Mike Wilkins, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Marie M. Halff, Liliane A. and Christian W.E. Haub, Raymond J. and Margaret Horowitz Endowment, Kandeo Asset Management, Maureen and Gene Kim, LATAM Trade Capital, Robert Lehman Foundation, Henry Luce Basis, The Lunder Basis – Peter and Paula Lunder Relatives, Provost of the Smithsonian, Lucy S. Rhame, Holly and Nick Ruffin, Jacquelyn and William Sheehan, Smithsonian Scholarly Research Awards, Terra Foundation for American Artwork, and Kelly Williams and Andrew Forsyth.
This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. The accompanying catalogue is supported by Also: a system of the J.M. Kaplan Fund.
The lecture series The Earth of Alexander von Humboldt is produced attainable by support from the Provost of the Smithsonian for Earth Optimism programming.
