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September 2, 2009
BMA Curator to Speak on American Art Exhibit Sept. 9
Samford's Visual Arts Department will present a lecture by Graham Boettcher, William Cary Hulsey Curator of American Art at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Wednesday Sept. 9 at 5 p.m. in Bonnie Bolding Studio, third floor, Bonnie Bolding Swearingen Hall on the university's campus.
Boettcher will preview the upcoming BMA exhibition Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery.
The exhibition, opening Oct. 4 and closing Jan. 10, will explore U.S. history through hundreds of paintings, photographs, and other artwork from the renowned collection of Yale University Art Gallery, including John Trumbull's famous depiction of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
The Samford lecture is free-of-charge and open to the public.
