2:30 p.m. April 14
Sarah Cash, Bechhoefer Curator of American Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Free

Founded to house the private art collection of William Wilson Corcoran (1789–1888), the Corcoran Gallery of Art is home to a diverse collection of American and European art from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.
At 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 14, Sarah Cash—the Bechhoefer Curator of American Art at the Corcoran—will be at the Morse to talk about the gallery’s collection of American Art, guiding us through treasures that range from Samuel F. B. Morse’s iconic House of Representatives (1822) and Frederic Church’s majestic Niagara (1857) to Edward Hopper’s mysterious Ground Swell (1939).

The Corcoran Gallery of Art is the oldest museum in Washington, D.C., and one of the oldest in the country. Ms. Cash will present the fascinating history of the Corcoran and provide an introduction to the collection.

Ms. Cash has been the Bechhoefer Curator of American Art at the Corcoran since 1998, curating several major exhibitions that include Encouraging American Genius: Master Paintings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art (2005–2007, with exhibition at four American venues); and more recently, Sargent and the Sea (2009), which is currently on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and will later travel to the Royal Academy of Arts, London.

She was the editor and co-author of the Sargent and the Sea exhibition catalogue (2009), and is the project director, editor, and coauthor of a forthcoming catalogue of the Corcoran’s pre-1945 American paintings.

In addition to her work at the Corcoran, Ms. Cash has held positions at the National Gallery of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, and Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas. She graduated from Smith College with a bachelor’s degree in art history and has a master’s degree from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art.