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Home>National Gallery of Art Communications Office>Exhibition Announcements, Releases, and Press Material>Exhibition Press Release 2023>Antonio Canova’s Expressive Clay Models Explored in Groundbreaking Exhibition at National Gallery of Art>Emerson Bowyer, Searle Curator, Painting and Sculpture of Europe, Art Institute of Chicago

June 02, 2023

# Emerson Bowyer, Searle Curator, Painting and Sculpture of Europe, Art Institute of Chicago

Emerson BowyerSearle Curator, Painting and Sculpture of EuropeArt Institute of Chicago

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Curator Bios:C. D. Dickerson III Senior curator of European and American Art, National Gallery of Art

**Emerson BowyerSearle Curator, Painting and Sculpture of Europe, Art Institute of Chicago**

Exhibition Page: *Canova: Sketching in Clay*

**Press Contact**Laurie Tylecphone: (202) 842-6355e-mail: [email protected]

A specialist in 18th- and 19th-century French and British art, he has worked at the Frick Collection, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. His exhibitions include *David d’Angers: Making the Modern Monument* (Frick Collection, 2013), *Luminous Worlds: British Works on Paper 1760–1900* (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2016), *Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body* (Met Breuer, 2018), *Canova: Sketching in Clay* (Art Institute of Chicago and National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 2023), and *Camille Claudel* (forthcoming, Art Institute of Chicago and J. Paul Getty Museum, L.A., 2023). At the Art Institute of Chicago, he has been responsible for several important acquisitions, including *The Shadow of Death*, a major painting by the Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt; a unique polychrome portrait bust by French sculptor Camille Claudel; and Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi’s *The Music Room*.

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