Linda S. Ferber: “How the Sea Kills the Trees: William Trost Richards and New Narratives for Marine Painting” (10.3.2019)

In conjunction with William Trost Richards: Hieroglyphs of Landscape, the McMullen Museum invited premier scholar on William Trost Richards, Linda S. Ferber, Director Emerita and Senior Art Historian of the New-York Historical Society, to examine the arc of Richards’s career and the artist’s ability to respond to changes in taste and emerging scientific interests.

This lecture took place at the McMullen Museum of Art on October 3, 2019.