Old Mill (The Morning Bell), Winslow Homer (1871)
Modern Times Lecture Series
Winslow Homer & America After The War
Rowena Dasch
Sunday, May 15, 2022 | 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
**Doors at 2:00, Lecture at 2:30
In Person and Online!
Tickets
$10 General Admission
$5 Student
Free for NCHM Members
Winslow Homer developed his highly individualistic style as war raged in the United States. Homer began his professional career as an illustrator, working primarily for Harper’s Weekly. Even during the war years, Homer’s illustrations and the paintings associated with them manifested the raw emotional power so often associated with his mature career. This lecture will ground Homer in his early career to then explore the ways in which his work shed light on a fractured nation coming to grips with a new modern world in the years that followed the Civil War.
About the Speaker
Rowena Houghton Dasch has led the Neill-Cochran House Museum as Executive Director since the end of 2013. She holds an MA and a Ph.D in American Art from the University of Texas at Austin and an AB in Art and Archaeology from Princeton University. During her tenure at the NCHM, Rowena has focused on increasing the diversity of the displays, and in particular on bringing an active program of temporary exhibitions that focus on the visual arts as well as on site and Austin history to the Museum. Her day-to-day work covers all facets of the Museum’s operations and the historic property’s preservation, including planning and implementation of a major structural restoration project, annual fundraising, educational programming for adults and families, and collections management.
