Portland’s Historic Black Community and the Underground Railroad: Historian Seth Goldstein offers tours of the Portland Freedom Trail and has translated some of his tour content for this presentation. Using artwork from the PMA collection Seth will provide an examination of Portland’s historic Black community. Community members purchased their homes in the Munjoy Hill section...
Registration for Lecture and Preview is RequiredKindly RSVP online or to Breton Lorway,Philanthropy Administrator (207) 775-6148 ext. 3225 or blorway@portlandmuseum.org. To join or find more information on Leadership Circles, please contact: Lily Spearsmith, Annual Gifts Officer, at lspearsmith@portlandmuseum.org or (207) 318-2055. Ramey Mize and Judith C. Walsh offer a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Winslow Homer: Painter, Etcher. Together, Mize and...
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Lecture Lecture: “Meaning and Method: Winslow Homer’s Etchings” Co-presented by Ramey Mize, Susan G. Detweiler Associate Curator of American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Judith C. Walsh, paper conservator and Professor Emerita, Buffalo State University. An exhibition timed entry ticket and lecture registration are required. Please reserve in advance, as time slots may sell out....
6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Lecture: “Meaning and Method: Winslow Homer’s Etchings” Presented by Ramey Mize, Susan G. Detweiler Associate Curator of American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art *Please note, a similar lecture presented with Judith C. Walsh, paper conservator and Professor Emerita, Buffalo State University takes place at 10:00 a.m. An...
William R. Cross, Author, Winslow Homer: American Passage Registration requested; walk-ins welcome $12 members $15 non-members In Winslow Homer: American Passage, biographer William R. Cross unveils his subject’s role as the visual counterpart to American literary giants such as Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson – and immersed as they were in a print economy that shaped Homer’s...
Lecture | The Education of Winslow Homer Judith C. Walsh, paper conservator and Professor Emerita, Buffalo State University. Registration requested; walk-ins welcome Winslow Homer was famously self-taught. Although personal study has its disadvantages, it helped shape Homer's distinctive style and lasting reputation as the quintessential American artist. The lecture will contrast Homer’s art education with...