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Postponed: Russian Icons through American Eyes: A Forgotten History
Sunday, October 27, 2024 from 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
$5 – $12
This event will be rescheduled for a later date.
Join us for a special lecture by renowned historian Wendy Salmond, PhD, in conjunction with the exhibition Masterpieces of Sacred Art from the Oleg Kushnirskiy Collection at The Museum of Russian Art.
Russian Icons through American Eyes: A Forgotten History
Wendy Salmond, PhD
Between the 1917 Revolution and the end of World War II, Russian icons enjoyed a surge of popularity in the United States. Visitors to Soviet Russia bought them as souvenirs, while American museums hosted them in traveling exhibitions and enterprising galleries sold them as Imperial treasures. Wendy Salmond revisits this forgotten moment in the America public’s engagement with icons and considers how that experience compares with that of visitors to TMORA’s current exhibition of Russian icons, Masterpieces of Sacred Art from the Oleg Kushnirskiy Collection.
About the Speaker
Born in New Zealand, Wendy Salmond received her PhD at the University of Texas at Austin and now teaches art history at Chapman University in Orange, CA. Her publications on Russian art include Arts and Crafts in Late Imperial Russia; Treasures into Tractors: The Selling of Russia’s Cultural Heritage, 1918-1938; Tradition in Transition: Russian Icons in the Age of the Romanovs, and most recently, “Eternity in Low Earth Orbit: Icons on the International Space Station.” Her current project is a book on the reception of icons in the United States.
