Picturing Boston: Painting the Town
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Channel: GBH Forum Network · 2014 · Education
Erica Hirshler provides a tour of Boston's waterfront, parks, and neighborhoods through the eyes of the painters who portrayed the city. Using images from the MFA's collection, this lecture explores how artists chose to represent Boston and its inhabitants throughout its history. Enjoy early views of Boston Common and the Battle of Bunker Hill, Fitzhugh Lane's ship-filled harbor scenes, and images by Childe Hassam and George Luks of the increasingly cosmopolitan city in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, as well as less familiar views of Dorchester, Roxbury, and other Boston neighborhoods.
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