Opening Reception & Panel Discussion: "Margaret Gest: Painting at the Threshold in 20th-c. Philadelphia"
Thursday, October 16, 2025 5:30–7:30 PM
- DescriptionContact Name: Jane Allen<br>Contact Email: jallen3@sju.edu<br>Registration Link: https://addcal.io/e/fnux42ur2t8l<br>Target Audience: All Students,Alumni,Faculty,Open to the Public,Staff<br>Link: https://www.sju.edu/maguire-art-museum/exhibitions/margaret-gest<br><br>Join us for a panel discussion with Page Talbott, PhD, Patricia Likos Ricci, PhD, and Erin Downey, PhD and celebrate the opening of <a href="https://www.sju.edu/maguire-art-museum/exhibitions/margaret-gest" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Margaret Gest: Painting at the Threshold in 20th-c. Philadelphia.</em></a><br><br>Refreshments will be provided.<br><br>This groundbreaking exhibition is the first major solo show on Margaret Ralston Gest (1900-1965), Gest worked at the threshold of modernism in Philadelphia - a period in the first half of the 20th century when artists increasingly engaged with abstraction and a variety of European avant-garde approaches and styles. Featuring approximately 50 artworks, the show will bring together for the first time paintings and drawings from Saint Joseph's University's permanent collection and other private and public collections in the region.
- Websitehttps://www.sju.edu/maguire-art-museum/exhibitions/margaret-gest
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