Michael FitzGerald is a Professor of Fine Arts at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and the research director of the Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso par el Arte in Brussles, Belgium. Among his studies of Picasso’s contributions to contemporary art, two exhibitions are particularly relevant to this lecture: “Picasso and American Art,” (2005, Whitney Museum of American Art) and “Post-Picasso" (2014, Museu Picasso Barcelona).