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Hosmer symposium pairs with Benton statue celebration.


From Lafayette Park Conservancy

The Benton statue was dedicated 140 years ago.

 


Harriet Hosmer was an artist who had to fight for the right to learn her craft. She was able to attend medical school and learn anatomy only because of the intervention of St. Louisan Wayman Crow. (Click here to read the Beacon story .)

On Friday evening,  Julie Dunn-Morton, the curator of the fine art collection for the Mercantile Library will welcome all who would like to see Hosmer's Beatrice Cenci and enjoy Elizabeth Pickard's show, "Zenobia Unchained: The Life and Times of Harriet Hosmer." The library is on the campus of the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Saturday morning. a symposium will include such topics as  "The White Marmorean Flock: 19th Century American Women Neoclassical Sculptors," "Harriet Hosmer in St. Louis: Body and Soul," "The curse of Beauty: Images of Women in the Sculpture of Harriet Hosmer" and "Bronze and Stone: Process and Preseration of Hosmer's Legacy." The sessions, which run from 9 a.m to approximately 1 p.m., will be held in the Steinberg Hall Auditorium of the Mildren Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University.

Saturday afternoon from 4:30-6 p.m., join in the celebration of Flag Day and the anniversary of the dedication of the statue of Thomas Hart Benton in Lafayette Park. Patriotic music and Plein Aire artists will add to the festivities.

Saturday evening, Benton Place, also in Lafayette Square, will host a celebration complete with mansion tours, music, food and auction. This is a fundraiser to help restore and conserve the Benton statue. 

Donna Korando started work in journalism at SIU’s Daily Egyptian in 1968. In between Carbondale and St. Louis Public Radio, she taught high school in Manitowoc, Wis., and worked at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She was the copy editor and letters editor for the editorial page from 1973-77. As an editorial writer from 1977-87, she covered Illinois and city politics, education, agriculture, family issues and sub-Saharan Africa. When she was editor of the Commentary Page from 1987-2003, the page won several awards from the Association of Opinion Page Editors. From 2003-07, she headed the features copy desk.