'People Watching: Then and Now' Sep 21 Written By RWhitcomb-editor "Mrs. Charles McEvers Verplanck'' (1771, oil on canvas), by John Singleton Copley; "Figure, Looking #2, by Susan White Brown, in the show "People Watching: Then and Now,'' at the Fitchburg (Mass.) Art Museum, Sept. 24-Jan. 14. (Editor's note: The picture of the young man was misidentified in earlier editions as a photo rather than as a painting.)The curator writes: "This exhibition contains portraits painted in various time periods by numerous different artists, from African sculptors to eighteenth-century Western painters to thirteen contemporary New England artists. The works not only reveal the role of portraiture throughout the years, but reveal pieces of history and human nature itself.'' Susan White BrownFitchburg Art Museum RWhitcomb-editor
'People Watching: Then and Now' Sep 21 Written By RWhitcomb-editor "Mrs. Charles McEvers Verplanck'' (1771, oil on canvas), by John Singleton Copley; "Figure, Looking #2, by Susan White Brown, in the show "People Watching: Then and Now,'' at the Fitchburg (Mass.) Art Museum, Sept. 24-Jan. 14. (Editor's note: The picture of the young man was misidentified in earlier editions as a photo rather than as a painting.)The curator writes: "This exhibition contains portraits painted in various time periods by numerous different artists, from African sculptors to eighteenth-century Western painters to thirteen contemporary New England artists. The works not only reveal the role of portraiture throughout the years, but reveal pieces of history and human nature itself.'' Susan White BrownFitchburg Art Museum RWhitcomb-editor