Join Heather Campbell Coyle, Curator of American Art at the Delaware Art Museum, for a walkthrough of Jazz Age Illustration, the first exhibition to survey the art of illustration in the 1920s and ’30s. Dr. Coyle has been working on this project for five years, and she will share some of her favorite research discoveries and behind-the-scenes stories in this gallery tour.
Heather Campbell Coyle is Curator of American Art at the Delaware Art Museum, where she has worked for over 20 years. Dr. Coyle has curated dozens of major exhibitions and produced several significant exhibition catalogues. She lectures and researches primarily on American art, illustration, and photography from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and has published extensively on the work of John Sloan and Howard Pyle. Her latest exhibition and book project, Jazz Age Illustration explores American illustration from the 1920s and 1930s, bringing together imagery from popular magazines, newspapers, novels, children’s books, sheet music, posters, and consumer products.

Reservations are required. Space is limited.

For more information, visit https://www.nrm.org/events/jazz-age-illustration-curator-tour/