Press Event: Michel Sittow: Estonian Painter at the Courts of Renaissance Europe and Outliers and American Vanguard Art

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A joint press conference was held on Tuesday, January 23, 2018, at the National Gallery of Art for Michel Sittow: Estonian Painter at the Courts of Renaissance Europe and Outliers and American Vanguard Art. Remarks were made by Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art, Washington; His Excellency Lauri Lepik, Estonian ambassador to the United States; Sirje Helme, director general, Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn; John Hand, curator of northern Renaissance paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, who introduced Michel Sittow; and Lynne Cooke, senior curator, special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, who introduced Outliers.