DUSTI BONGÉ: MISSISSIPPI MODERNIST WITH ERIN MONROE AND LAURA LEONARD

Free with museum admission.

Saturday, January 6

1 pm

Dusti Bongé (1903–1993) turned to painting in her 30s and rapidly became Mississippi’s first modernist painter. Erin Monroe, Krieble Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, and Laura Leonard, Art Bridges Project Coordinator, discuss works on loan from the Mobile (AL) Museum of Art that highlight the life and career of Bongé, who challenged the status quo of New York City’s abstract expressionist art scene by finding success on her own terms.

Image: Dusti Bongé, Untitled (Four Musicians) (detail), c. 1952. Watercolor, ink, and gouache on paper. Mobile Museum of Art, Gift from the Dusti Bongé Foundation, G2005.32.19. Courtesy of the Mobile Museum of Art.