Scholarship
By providing funding, artwork photography, archival materials, and editorial assistance, the O’Brien Art Foundation supports the publication of scholarship invested in broadening art historical understandings and centering the artists, works, and narratives related to the collections.
In addition to commissioning new texts and publications focused on the work in our collections and related areas of art history, the Foundation is actively engaged in supporting forms of scholarship that include academic talks and panel discussions at accredited venues, convenings of academics and curators in the field, and electronic publishing hosted on our own website.
Leading sponsor for forthcoming annual conference. May 7–10, 2025.
Since 1996, Initiatives in Art and Culture’s American Art Conference has been at the forefront of critical inquiry in the field, pushing the boundaries of accepted thinking and spotlighting pioneering perspectives on American Art.
Organizer and Funding for public talk at the John Hermann Art Museum. February 9, 2025.
A public discussion on Aaronel deRoy Gruber, Dorothy Dehner, and Sally Cook featuring speakers Brittany Reilly, Executive Director of The Irving and Aaron deRoy Gruber Foundation; Alex J. Taylor, Associate Professor at University of Pittsburgh’s Department of History of Art and Architecture; and Hannah Turpin, Director of Collections & Exhibitions at the O‘Brien Art Foundation.
Funding for exhibition catalogue published by Mattatuck Museum, 2023.
Explores the movement of Precisionism by focusing on the work of Connecticut artists who employed fine art and design to speak to these technological and social changes.
