Virtual Lecture: "Charles Caryl Coleman: Reflecting on Italy"

Join the Gibson House Museum and Professor Adrienne Baxter Bell, Ph.D. (Professor of Art History, Marymount Manhattan College) for a survey of the life and work of the Gilded Age artist Charles Caryl Coleman (1840-1928). This lecture will touch on Coleman’s early education before focusing primarily on the extraordinary body of work that he produced in Italy. Professor Bell will discuss two of Coleman’s paintings in the Gibson House Museum; one representing the countryside near Perugia and the other a Venetian seascape. She will conclude by discussing Coleman’s surprisingly modern pastels, “The Songs of Vesuvius,” and his posthumous legacy in both literature and film.