Fitz Henry Lane Lecture Series:

Join us for one or all of the following lectures which place Fitz Henry Lane and Mary Mellen in the context of their times.

Sisters of the Brush: Women Artists in 19th Century America

Erica Hirshler, Croll Senior Curator of American Painting

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Sunday, August 12, 3:00 p.m.

The American Sublime in Trans-Atlantic Perspective

Tim Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

Department of Art History, Yale University

Thursday, August 23, 7:00 p.m.

All lectures will be held at Gloucester City Hall, across the street from the Museum.

Lectures are free and open to the public. Suggested donation: $10.

The Museum will be open until 6:30 p.m. on the days of the lectures.

For more information, call the Museum at (978) 283-0455

The exhibition is funded in part thanks to the generous support of Gorton’s Seafood and the Terra Foundation for American Art.