Njideka Akunyili Crosby, “The Beautyful Ones” Series #1c, 2014. Acrylic, transfers, and colored pencil on paper, 5 x 3 1/2 ft. (1.52 x 1.07 m). © Njideka Akunyili.

Join Art Muse LA’s President and Founder Clare Kunny, in conversation with Tamara Davidson, who will guide the viewing process and discussion of this program.

Njideka Akunyili Crosby is a Nigerian-born artist who came to the United States to attend the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Swarthmore College, before obtaining a master’s in fine arts from Yale University. Akunyili has gained wide recognition and acclaim for her collage-based paintings. The paintings are hauntingly beautiful. Figures exist in quiet living spaces, emerging from layers of imagery, color, and texture. An exhibition of intimate portraits of children from Akunyili’s ongoing series “The Beautyful Ones” on view at the Huntington is the centerpiece of this in-person program.

After our program, we encourage participants to find the recently acquired Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun’s Portrait of Joseph Hyacinthe Francois-de-Paule de Rigoud, comte de Vaudreuil, circa 1784, and then visit the American galleries where paintings and sculpture offer a selection of modern and contemporary art by Harriet Hosmer, Mary Cassatt, and more women artists.

This ticket price includes the cost of admission to The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.