Join us Monday, 5 May 2025 at 11:30AM ET for a conversation on the work of Pucker Gallery artist Gunnar Norrman.
This WebinART will be an opportunity to share our sheer delight in Norrman's fine art together with:
Andrew Fitch – Fitch-Febvrel Gallery Director
Mara Williams - Brattleboro Museum Curator Emerita
Dr. Carl Herbert - Gallery Associate
Bernard Pucker – Gallery Director
The exhibition Dedicated Attention will be on view at Pucker Gallery from 10 May through 22 June 2025.
View the Exhibition Catalogue here.
About Our Panelists:
Born in Scania, Sweden in 1912, Gunnar Norrman received a Bachelor of Science degree in Botany, Chemistry, and Genetics from the University of Lund in 1938. He had his first one-man exhibition of drawings in 1942 at the Malmö Museum of Art, despite having little formal training. In 1979, he was awarded the Prince Eugen Medal by the King of Sweden for the outstanding illustrations he executed for Naturen I Våra Hjärtan, an anthology of poems. Greatly respected in his native Sweden, Norrman’s works were featured in the 1997 exhibition titled Modern Scandinavian Prints at the British Museum, London. He has also exhibited in the United States, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, England, France, Japan, and Italy. His works are in the collections of the British Museum (London), the Nationalmuseum (Stockholm), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), and others. In 2003, a catalogue raisonné, Gunnar Norrman: The Complete Graphic Works, 1941-2001, was published by the Fitch-Febvrel Gallery in New York. He has been represented by Pucker Gallery since 1986. Norrman died in 2005.
Born in NYC, bred in its suburbs, Andrew Fitch graduated Yale in 1959 with a B.A. in French language and literature. Having won an NCAA wrestling championship in his senior year, he devoted much of the next half decade to the sport, winning a gold medal in the Pan American Games (Saõ Paulo 1963) and participating in the Tokyo Olympics (no medal, 1964). Concurrently, he began teaching French at Columbia University (1963-1967, earning M.A. and M. Phil degrees), with a year off for a Fulbright in Paris (1964-1965). Having surrendered his draft card for burning in a Central Park ceremony in 1967 and being forthwith reclassified 1-A, Andy spent a couple of years mostly bumming around Europe and Japan until he returned with newlywed Dominique to NYC. After a couple of years as Ass’t. Foreign Student Advisor at Columbia and some taxi driving, he and Dominique started Fitch-Febvrel Gallery in 1971 out of their apartment, moving to a public gallery on 5 E. 57th St. in 1977. The Gallery joined the now prestigious IFPDA in its second year, with Andy serving on its board for a few years in the 90’s. After 28 years in the city, where they were privileged to introduce artists such as Gunnar Norrman, Erik Desmazières, and Philippe Mohlitz inter al., in 2005 they closed their public space, now dealing privately out of a gallery attached to their home in Croton-on-Hudson, NY.
Mara Williams assumed Emerita status in 2021, after curating exhibits at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center for thirty-three years. Her area of expertise is modern and contemporary art. As a partner in Arts Bridge LLC, Williams leads exhibition teams for institutions developing new large-scale museum projects. She holds an A.B. in theatre from Boston College; an MFA in museology from Syracuse University and has completed doctoral course work and passed comprehensives in comparative arts at New York University. She is Chair of the Wolf Kahn Foundation. She has served as chair of the Vermont Arts Council and as a board member of the New England Museum Association, as well as three terms on the Senate Curatorial Advisory Committee for the U.S. Capitol.
Dr. Carl Herbert is a fourth-generation physician whose career has been devoted to helping infertility patients overcome a wide spectrum of obstacles to create their families. Early in his career he participated in the founding of one of the first eIVF centers in the United States. For more than forty years, Dr. Herbert has contributed to the growth and development of assisted reproductive technologies, continually implementing the evolving techniques and optimizing their clinical applications for care. The ambiguity of a socially awkward accolade, “You got me pregnant!”, has become a recurrent reward, both humorous and joyful. By serendipity, Dr. Herbert walked into Pucker Gallery for the first time in 1985 when visiting Boston for a medical conference. From this point on, his nascent interest in art grew under the generous tutelage and encouragement of Mr. Pucker. A close personal friendship evolved as they visited artists and exhibitions around the world; exchanged thoughts on the experience and intrinsic value that art, in all its many forms, can provide individuals and society; and shared writings which illuminated these principles.
Bernie Pucker is the director of Pucker Gallery, which he founded with his wife, Sue, on Boston's historic Newbury Street in 1967. Pucker Gallery represents over fifty artists from around the world, presenting approximately ten exhibitions annually, often paired with artist talks, virtual “WebinARTs,” and Gallery receptions. Bernie is currently a Board Member at the Japan Society, Boston, and the Jewish Publication Society. He also serves on the Leadership Council for Facing History and Ourselves as well as the Artistic Advisory Board for the Terezin Music Foundation. Previously, he has served as President of Solomon Schechter Day School, President of the Newbury Street League, and Board Member for the Friends of Copley Square and The Unity Project, among others. Bernie received his MA in Modern Jewish History from Brandeis University and his BA in History and English Literature from Columbia College.