For more than 200 years\, American painter s have been inspired to capture the beauty\, violence\, poetry and transfo rmative power of the sea in American life. Their images of the sea have al so expressed ambitions beyond America&rsquo\;s borders in aesthetically an d conceptually distinctive ways. In American Waters offer a more inclusive way of thinking about American marine painting by reconsidering national symbols and narratives\, origin stories\, coastlines\, horizons a nd ports\, and broadening the conversation to embrace perspectives on the Middle Passage\, immigration and Indigenous presence.
\nUniversity o f Arkansas Press spotlight author\, Austen Barron Bailly\, will discuss&nb sp\;In American Waters: The Sea in American Painting. \;Exper ience a wide range of modern and historical American artists and the ways the mystery and power of the sea continues to be an inspiration.
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\nAusten Barron Bailly\, PhD\, is chief cura tor of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Bailly leads the curatorial and collections management teams and is a key member of the strategy team \, overseeing curatorial endeavors\, collection growth and preservation\, and contributing to the development of new exhibitions and installations.& nbsp\;Bailly joined Crystal Bridges in July 2019\, following her six-year tenure as the George Putnam Curator of American Art at the Peabody Essex M useum (PEM) in Salem\, Massachusetts. There she developed the American art collection and program and developed and co-curated nationally touring ex hibitions including \;American Epics: Thomas Hart Benton \;and \;Hollywood\, American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals\, and \;Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle.
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