A Conversation with Sarah Cash
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works Podcast
Length: 30:33
This week, we're celebrating the fourth of July with a visit to Washington DC's Corcoran Gallery of Art. The Corcoran is a major center of historic and contemporary American Art. Founded “for the purpose of encouraging American Genius,” the Corcoran Gallery, and it's affiliated college of art and design, presents and preserves artwork while educating and nurturing the artists of the next generation.
The museum possesses a fine collection of European art and actively acquires and shows contemporary art from around the world. But the jewel in the Corcoran's gallery is its American wing, an extensive collection of 18th, 19th, and 20th century work that represents America's most significant artists.
Sarah Cash has been the Corcoran’s Bechhoefer Curator of American Art since 1998 and clearly the ideal guide to the museum and its American Art collection.Also in the Art Works Podcast series
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This week, we're celebrating the fourth of July with a visit to Washington DC's Corcoran Gallery of Art. The Corcoran is a major center of historic and contemporary American Art. Founded “for the purpose of encouraging American Genius,” the Corcoran Gallery, and it's affiliated college of art and design, presents and preserves artwork while educating and nurturing the artists of the next generation.
The museum possesses a fine collection of European art and actively acquires and shows contemporary art from around the world. But the jewel in the Corcoran's gallery is its American wing, an extensive collection of 18th, 19th, and 20th century work that represents America's most significant artists.
Sarah Cash has been the Corcoran’s Bechhoefer Curator of American Art since 1998 and clearly the ideal guide to the museum and its American Art collection.Transcript
Transcript of conversation with Sarah Cash
Sarah Cash: The Corcoran’s collection is outstanding. It gives me a special charge and special honor, really, to be the curator of this incredible collection, this really world-renowned collection of American paintings and sculpture, one of the best in the world. And it is at once challenging and fun, and all of the things that a great job should be. And I feel very, very honored and thrilled to have the stewardship of this great collection, and also to have learned so much about it. Last year we published our first ever catalogue of the collection of American paintings before 1945, both in book and online form. And I felt that that was so important to document this collection in that way, in a way that had never been done before. And also to publish a history of the Corcoran. And we have such a rich and fascinating history.
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