# Event Details - **Event Name**: Lecture: American Art at the Crossroads: WPA Realism to Postwar Abstraction - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 26 Feb, 2026 at 05:30 pm – Thu, 26 Feb, 2026 at 06:30 pm - **Event Description**: Join us for this lecture by Viviana Bucarelli, PhD, titled "American Art at the Crossroads: Between WPA Realism and Post-War Abstraction"!About this EventOn February 26, art historian Viviana Bucarelli, PhD, will present a lecture in conjunction with the exhibition For Which It Stands..., exploring the turn from realism to abstraction in American art. This forms part of the Museum's Lehman Lecture Series, funded by the Robert Lehman Foundation. Her talk will also be livestreamed; for a reminder, please click here.About the Exhibition: This exhibition examines depictions of the American flag through 70+ works by a diverse group of artists, beginning during WWI with Childe Hassam’s Italian Day, May 1918 and continuing to the present day, including a textile sculpture commissioned for the show from Maria de Los Angeles. The exhibition includes work in a variety of media by artists including Jasper Johns, Faith Ringgold, Robert Rauschenberg, Shepard Fairey, and Julie Mehretu, and challenges viewers to consider who the American flag truly represents and whether justice is available to all.For Which it Stands… forms part of America250: The Promise and Paradox, an initiative through which Fairfield University Explores 250 Years of the American Experiment. For more information, click here.Image: Grant Wood, The Mightnight Ride of Paul Revere (detail), 1931, oil on masonite. © Figge Art Museum, successors to the Estate of Nan Wood Graham/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/fairfield/lecture-american-art-at-the-crossroads-wpa-realism-to-postwar-abstraction/100001977719692840 - **Event Categories**: art, exhibitions - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Fairfield - **state**: CT - **country**: United States - **location**: Fairfield University Art Museum, Bellarmine Hall, Diffley Board Room - **lat**: 41.1587647 - **long**: -73.25735900000001 - **full address**: Fairfield University Art Museum, Bellarmine Hall, Diffley Board Room, 200 Barlow Road, Fairfield, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Lecture: American Art at the Crossroads: WPA Realism to Postwar Abstraction - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/1dcb306ca56c8922098146b9b3c093da16695fb67ee9fa50f148a8308f83ff0c-rimg-w960-h713-dc15171b-gmir.jpg?v=1765619853 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Lecture: American Art at the Crossroads: WPA Realism to Postwar Abstraction being held? - **A:** Lecture: American Art at the Crossroads: WPA Realism to Postwar Abstraction takes place on Thu, 26 Feb, 2026 at 05:30 pm to Thu, 26 Feb, 2026 at 06:30 pm at Fairfield University Art Museum, Bellarmine Hall, Diffley Board Room, 200 Barlow Road, Fairfield, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Lecture: American Art at the Crossroads: WPA Realism to Postwar Abstraction? - **A:** Lecture: American Art at the Crossroads: WPA Realism to Postwar Abstraction is organized by Fairfield University Art Museum. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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In the Walsh Gallery, located in the Quick Center for the Arts, the museum presents larger special exhibitions. The permanent collection features European and American paintings — including a core group of 10 Renaissance and Baroque paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection — drawings, prints, photographs, and historic plaster casts as well as artwork from Asia, Africa, and South America. Also on view are works of art on long-term loan from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Worcester Art Museum, the American Numismatic Society, Columbia University, and private collections.We look forward to welcoming you! As always, admission to our galleries is free.Museum hours: Tuesday-Saturday 11 am-4 pm" } ] } ] ```