Out of the shadow and into the light at Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Elmer Kolfin presents “Out of the shadow and into the light: Black figures in the art of Rembrandt’s time” for the 2021 Isabel and Alfred Bader Lecture in European Art
Online, Friday 4 June, 1–2:30 pm (EST)
ASL interpretation and live captioning available.
All major Dutch collections have paintings representing Black figures and the Bader Collection at Agnes Etherington Art Centre is no exception. For a long time, Black presence in Dutch seventeenth-century art went unaccounted for and scholarship around this was thus absent in academic texts and museum exhibitions. However, research of the past thirty years has drawn increased attention to the ubiquitous presence and varying roles of Black figures in Dutch art as well as Dutch art’s entangled relationship to colonialism and class. In this lecture,