Envisioning America: How Artists Have Depicted the United States, a 5-week Lecture Series with Sue Altman
Wednesdays, May 28 - June 25, from 2:00 - 3:00 pm. In this course, five distinct periods of American History and the way artists have depicted them will be shown and discussed. Some of the artists covered are John Singleton Copley, Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, Dorothea Lange, and Romare Bearden.
Start Date + Time
May 28, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Cape Cod Museum of Art, 60 Hope Ln, Dennis, MA 02638, USA
About
(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:
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.
Manifest Destiny and the Western Expansion: including depictions of Native Americans and the glorious landscape paintings by Hudson River School Painters like Frederic Church.
The Civil War: views of the conflict and its aftermath from painters such as Winslow Homer and photographers like Matthew Brady.
Immigration, World War I, and the Great Depression: the turbulent early years of the 20th Century with impressions of Alfred Stieglitz, Jacob Riis, Dorothea Lange, and Ben Shahn.
Social Justice Movements of the mid and late 20th Century: including The Civil Rights, Anti War, and Feminist Movements and AIDS activism, and artists like Romare Bearden and Judy Chicago.
We have scholarships!
The Cape Cod Museum of Art is committed to making Art accessible to everyone in the Cape Cod Community. The Museum School Scholarship Fund provides tuition assistance to qualified, year-round Cape Cod residents ages 6 and up. Click here to apply.
CCMoA Docent Suzanne Altman is an art educator and art historian who has presented art and art history programs throughout New York, New Jersey, and Cape Cod for both adult and teenage audiences. Sue is a painter who works out of her in-home studio in South Yarmouth. See her work at www.suealtmanart.com or on Instagram @artworkshudson
Image Credit: Liberation, 1945, Ben Shahn.
Cancellation Policy: A one-week advance cancellation notice is required in order to receive a refund.