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A Talk with Adam Eaker on his new book on Gesina ter Borch
06:30pm to 08:00pm - December 11, 2024

A Talk with Adam Eaker on his new book on Gesina ter Borch live at the Netherland Club

 

THE NEW AMSTERDAM HISTORY CENTER and THE NETHERLAND CLUB OF NEW YORK

are pleased to invite you for a program with

Adam Eaker

Associate Curator of European Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

speaking about his new book

Gesina ter Borch

in conversation with

Wayne Franits - Distinguished Professor of Art History at Syracuse University

and

Nicole Cook - Senior Program Manager of the Center for Netherlandish Art, The Museum of Fine Art Boston

Wednesday December 11, 2024

6:30 – 8 PM

3 West 51st Street (The Solarium) New York

General Admission $20

NAHC & NL Club Members and Students $10

Adam Eaker's new book Gesina ter Borch is the first full-length study devoted to the best-documented Dutch woman artist of the seventeenth century. In this event, he and fellow art historians Nicole Cook and Wayne Franits will explore the fascinating art of Gesina ter Borch and place it within the context of transformations in Dutch genre painting, the achievement of Dutch women artists, and connections between the Ter Borch family and the Dutch Americas.

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This program is made possible in part with the support of the Consul General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in New York, Dutch Culture USA
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Adam Eaker
Adam Eaker is an associate curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He studied art history at Yale University and Columbia University, where he received his PhD in 2016. A specialist in Northern European and British painting of the sixteenth through the eighteenth century, he was an Anne L. Poulet Curatorial Fellow and subsequently guest curator at the Frick Collection, where he co-curated the exhibition Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture (2016) At The Met, he as curated the exhibition In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces at the Met, as well as co-curating The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England. His previous publications include Van Dyck and the Making of English Portraiture (2022).
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Wayne Franits
Wayne Franits, Distinguished Professor of Art History at Syracuse University, is a specialist in seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art. His extensive publications have explored a variety of topics within the field, ranging from genre painting and portraiture to the work of the Dutch followers of Caravaggio. In recent years, Franits has published books on the seventeenth-century Dutch painters, Johannes Vermeer (2015) and Godefridus Schalcken (2018 and 2023) as well as The Ashgate Research Companion to Dutch Art of the Seventeenth Century (2016).
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Nicole Elizabeth Cook
Nicole Elizabeth Cook works as Senior Program Manager at the Center for Netherlandish Art, at the MFA Boston. She researches, curates, and teaches the arts and culture of the Netherlands of the 17th-century, with special interests in histories of women, gender, and LGBTQIA+ experiences in the early modern era. Nicole is completing a book manuscript about artists’ representations of night in the Netherlands and interconnections with cultures and experiences of nighttime, which includes discussion of Gesina ter Borch’s nocturnal watercolors. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Delaware and an M.A. from Temple University, Tyler School of Art.

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