Unknown Sitters Guided Tour: Bring Your Imagination, Wednesday, September 25, 2024 11:30AM
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Date
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 11:30AM
Name
Unknown Sitters Guided Tour: Bring Your Imagination
Description
Wednesdays and Thursdays at 11:30 a.m. and Sundays at 12:30 p.m. through October 6, 2024
520 Royal Street
Admission is $10 for the general public and free for HNOC Members. Walk-ins are welcome but reservations are encouraged. Tickets are available thirty (30) days in advance.
Drawn from the holdings of the Historic New Orleans Collection, the subjects of the 26 portraits in the exhibition Unknown Sitters are unidentified in the historical record. On this 30-minute tour, visitors will learn about the process of analyzing historical portraits and then connect the imagined stories of the Unknown Sitters to their own.
Tickets are refundable up to 48 hours before the start of the tour.
Left: Man in overalls; between 1930 and 1935; oil on canvas by Daniel Webster Whitney (1896–1965); gift of Mrs. Daniel Whitney, 1984.231.7
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