Exhibition reveals a complex story between white settlers and the Indigenous peoples depicted in masterwork
Opening August 16, 2021, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the exhibition Jules Tavernier and the Elem Pomo explores the intercultural exchange between American artist Jules Tavernier (18441889), born and trained in France, and the Indigenous Pomo community of Elem at Clear Lake in northern California. Investigating Taverniers life and career, the exhibition is centered on his rediscovered masterwork, Dance in a Subterranean Roundhouse at Clear Lake, California (1878), which depicts the mfom Xe, or people dance, of the Elem Pomo in an underground roundhouse. The exhibition brings together approximately 60 works by a range of artistspaintings, prints, watercolors, and photographsto tell the story of Taverniers travels through Nebraska, Wyoming, California, and the
Opening August 16, 2021, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the exhibition Jules Tavernier and the Elem Pomo explores the intercultural exchange between American artist Jules Tavernier (18441889), born and trained in France, and the Indigenous Pomo community of Elem at Clear Lake in northern California. Investigating Taverniers life and career, the exhibition is centered on his rediscovered masterwork, Dance in a Subterranean Roundhouse at Clear Lake, California (1878), which depicts the mfom Xe, or people dance, of the Elem Pomo in an underground roundhouse. The exhibition brings together approximately 60 works by a range of artistspaintings, prints, watercolors, and photographsto tell the story of Taverniers travels through Nebraska, Wyoming, California, and the