Krag exhibit at Cornell through Nov. 30

“Gillian Pederson Krag: Paintings & Etchings” is currently on exhibit at the Peter Paul Luce Gallery in McWethy Hall at Cornell College through Nov. 30, 2014. Krag will give an artist’s lecture at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 30, McWethy Hall, room 222, with an artist’s reception and book signing to follow.

 

Krag is a distinguished American painter, who has taught at  Dartmouth College, Cornell University, and Queens College, and has served as visiting critic at Ringling School of Art, S Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Delaware College of Art & Design, the Maryland Institute, Syracuse University, and Vassar College, among others.

Her work is included in numerous public collections, including: Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY; Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, NY; Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA; New York Public Library Print Collection; and the Library of Congress Print Collection, Washington, DC.

Krag has studied painting at the Fountainebleau School of Fine Arts, the Arts Students League of New York, and the Academies of Fine Arts in Perugia and Florence, Italy. She received her B.F.A from Rhode Island School of Design in 1961, and her M.F.A. from Cornell University in 1963.

Krag’s exhibition and her visit are sponsored by the Cornell College Department of Art & Art History, and a generous programming endowment from the Henry Luce Foundation, Inc.

Admission is free and all are welcome. For more information contact Sue Coleman, Cornell Gallery Coordinator / Lecturer, scoleman@cornellcollege.edu or call 319-895-4491