Events

Presented by Derrick R. Cartwright, Ph.D., Timken Director of Curatorial Affairs

Explore and compare significant works of art by Kent Monkman and Albert Bierstadt with Timken Director of Curatorial Affairs, Derrick R. Cartwright. Monkman, a member of the Swampy Cree, Fisher River First Nation tribe, is a leading contemporary artist, while Albert Bierstadt, a prominent 19th-century landscape painter, was one of the most influential artists in the United States. This discussion will examine both artists' contributions to art history and contrast their impacts on the cultural debates of their time.

The Timken will be a good place to study these artists. From late March through early June 2025, Monkman’s large acrylic on canvas painting The Fourth World (2012) will be displayed alongside Bierstadt’s Cho-Looke, The Yosemite Fall (1864) in the Timken's American Gallery as part of the Museum’s ongoing Reconsidering... series. Previous exhibitions in this series have featured works by Rembrandt van Rijn, Rineke Dijkstra, Anthony van Dyck, and Kehinde Wiley.