Nineteenth-Century Masters: Ruth Whittier and Samuel W. Shute, Jacob Maentel, and Sheldon Peck

• Art/Photo

Speaker: Stacy C. Hollander, senior curator and director of exhibitions, American Folk Art Museum

Hollander will focus on four American masters of 19th-century American folk portraiture who created a legacy of relatives, friends, and neighbors and provided a window into the development of a spirited and optimistic nation.