David Pullins

Video still of David Pullins giving lecture at The Frick Collection
David Pullins: "Manet's Lost Years"

David Pullins, Associate Curator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Research undertaken in preparation for Manet: Three Paintings from the Norton Simon Museum prompted a reevaluation of the painter’s development between 1875 and 1877, a period of intense stylistic transition in his artistic trajectory. Focusing on new discoveries made about Madame Manet and The Ragpicker, works featured in the exhibition, this lecture addresses some of the surprising directions that Manet took during this time.

Link to introductory video for the exhibition 'Manet: Three Paintings from the Norton Simon Museum'
Manet: Three Paintings from the Norton Simon Museum
David Pullins introduces the exhibition Manet: Three Paintings from the Norton Simon Museum on view at The Frick Collection from October 16, 2019 through January 5, 2020.
Link to video of David Pullins lecture
David Pullins: "Shared Practices: Painting and Decoration in Eighteenth-Century France"

Motifs after François Boucher and other leading painters populate the surface of Sèvres porcelain, including pieces in The Frick Collection. Pullins considers what it was about academic painters’ training and working methods that encouraged the adaptation of their motifs from canvas to porcelain, textiles, and other media.