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.