Revolutionary Valley Regional Tourism Council

Man Up! Visualizing Masculinity in 19th-Century America
2020-03-18 10:00 - 2020-05-18 16:00, 2020-03-19 10:00 - 2020-05-19 16:00, 2020-03-20 10:00 - 2020-05-20 16:00, 2020-03-21 10:00 - 2020-05-21 16:00, 2020-03-24 10:00 - 2020-05-24 16:00, 2020-03-25 10:00 - 2020-05-25 16:00, 2020-03-26 10:00 - 2020-05-26 16:00, 2020-03-27 10:00 - 2020-05-27 16:00 (America/New_York) and 6 more dates | 97 University Ave, Lowell, MA, 01854, United States
​​The 19th century witnessed the development of a notion of masculinity that tied the worth of a white man to his performance in the workplace—from which women and other minorities were excluded—and to his capacity to accumulate capital and advance socially. By the turn of the 20th century, pervasive anxiety posed by the threat of emasculation and the constant need to prove oneself as a man fostered a sense of an ideal manliness that was cutthroat or “primitive,” a masculinity characterized by passion, vigor, and aggressiveness and manifested through violence, displays and abuses of power, and alienation. Drawn from the Addison’s collection, the works on view in this exhibition reflect the constant redefinition of masculinity in American society during the 19th and early 20th centuries, inviting us to think critically about the shifting definitions of gender roles.​​

Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940-1950
2020-03-18 10:00 - 2020-06-11 16:00, 2020-03-19 10:00 - 2020-06-12 16:00, 2020-03-20 10:00 - 2020-06-13 16:00, 2020-03-21 10:00 - 2020-06-14 16:00, 2020-03-24 10:00 - 2020-06-17 16:00, 2020-03-25 10:00 - 2020-06-18 16:00, 2020-03-26 10:00 - 2020-06-19 16:00, 2020-03-27 10:00 - 2020-06-20 16:00 and 8 more dates | MA
​​During the 1940s, American photographer Gordon Parks (1912–2006) grew from a self-taught photographer making portraits and documenting everyday life in Saint Paul and Chicago to a visionary professional shooting for Ebony, Glamour, Smart Woman, and Life. For the first time, the formative first decade of Parks’s 60-year career is the focus of an exhibition, which brings together 150 photographs and ephemera—including magazines, books, letters, and family pictures. The exhibition will illustrate Parks’s early experiences at the Farm Security Administration, Office of War Information, and Standard Oil (New Jersey), as well as his close relationships with Roy Stryker, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison and reveal how th​ese helped shape his groundbreaking style. A catalog with extensive new research and previously unpublished images accompanies the exhibition.
The exhibition is curated by Philip Brookman, Consulting Curator, Department of Photographs, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., in collaboration with The Gordon Parks Foundation.​ Bank of America is proud to be the national sponsor of ​Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950. ​
