'People Watching: Then and Now'

 "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.''