Envisioning America: How Artists Have Depicted the United States, a 5-week Lecture Series with Sue Altman

(5) Wednesdays, May 28 - June 25, from 2:00 – 3:00 pm.

Member $65 / Non-Member $90; includes Museum admission

In this course, five distinct periods of American History and the way artists have depicted them will be shown and discussed. These include:  the Revolutionary period, the era of Western Expansion, the Civil War and Reconstruction, the Immigration Wave, the Great Depression and WWI, and the Social Justice movements of the mid and late 20th Century.

Weekly schedule:

1. The Colonial and Revolutionary period: portrait artists like John Singleton Copley, history painters like Benjamin West, and many depictions of George Washington and other leaders of the new nation.

2. Manifest Destiny and the Western Expansion: including depictions of Native Americans and the glorious landscape paintings by Hudson River School Painters like Frederic Church.