Patricia Hickson, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

About Patricia Hickson, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Patricia Hickson is the Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Robert Rauschenberg, Retroactive I, 1963, oil and silkscreen-ink print on canvas, 213.4 x 152.4 cm (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art) All works © Robert Rauschenberg — A portrait of a president transformed by tragedy.

Rauschenberg’s Homage to JFK

by Patricia Hickson, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and Dr. Steven Zucker

Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Washing/Tracks/Maintenance: Outside (July 23, 1973), Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art © Mierle Laderman Ukeles — The artist asks us if maintaining can be as important as creating.

Maintenance art

by Patricia Hickson, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and Dr. Beth Harris

Homage to JFK: Rauschenberg’s Retroactive I

by Patricia Hickson, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and Dr. Steven Zucker

Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Washing/Tracks/Maintenance: Outside (July 23, ...

by Patricia Hickson, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and Dr. Beth Harris

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inspired by Malian and Western traditions

Malick Sidibé, Back View (2003)