NORTHFIELD, Vt. — Norwich University’s Sullivan Museum and History Center presents “Fellow Artists: Boggs’ Colleagues in the White Mountain Painters,” a Lunch and Learn from noon to 1 p.m. April 20 in the museum conference room.
In the early 19th century, northern New Hampshire’s forests transformed from being viewed as a terrifying wilderness to a tourist attraction, largely because of artists' paintings, illustrations and lithographs that popularized the region.
This talk will discuss what brought artists to the White Mountains and provide context for the White Mountain paintings by William Brenton Boggs in the current Sullivan Museum exhibit, “The World Through Their Eyes: The Art of William Brenton Boggs and Truman Seymour.” That exhibit, running through Dec.16, includes paintings and drawings of scenes from North and South America, Asia, Europe and Africa.
Lunch and Learn presenter Marcia Schmidt Blaine is a professor emerita of history at Plymouth State University. Blaine has been researching and writing about 19th century White Mountains art and tourism for the past 15 years. She served as executive director of the Museum of the White Mountains at Plymouth State, during which she made it integrated and sustainable. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from the College of William & Mary and her doctorate from the University of New Hampshire.
This program is free and open to the public, which can also join virtually at https://bit.ly/3JFJpMt.
Lunch will be provided for attendees. Space is limited, but there will be a secondary viewing area in the museum gallery.
Norwich University is a diversified academic institution that educates traditional-age students and adults in a Corps of Cadets and as civilians. Norwich offers a broad selection of traditional and distance-learning programs culminating in baccalaureate and graduate degrees. Norwich University was founded in 1819 by Captain Alden Partridge of the U.S. Army and is the oldest private military college in the United States of America. Norwich is one of our nation's six Senior Military Colleges and the birthplace of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC). www.norwich.edu
The photograph depicts painting “Morning Mist Rising,” Thomas Cole, 1830, Oil on canvas, 15 1/8 x 22 1/8 inches, Private collection, Robert J. Steinberg photo.
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