Internationally acclaimed artist Sean Scully will lecture on the legacy of painter Vincent Van Gogh, placing key paintings from the DIA’s exhibition Van Gogh in America into dialogue with his own artistic practice. As Scully will discuss, Van Gogh’s paintings were made in a time of great change not unlike our own, as artists were reeling from the onset of the twentieth century.

As Van Gogh faced the end of ruralism and the steady rise of industry, he worked to preserve the very idea of landscape. Revealing Van Gogh’s continued resonance for artists working today, Scully will ask what Van Gogh’s paintings might help us see about our own time. 

Sponsored by the Friends of Modern and Contemporary Art