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he Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age
John Surovek: My Life as an Art Dealer—Sponsored by the Friends of the Farnsworth Collection
Farnsworth Chief Curator Michael K. Komanecky will interview gallery owner and art historian John Surovek, who in his thirty-five years as an art dealer in Palm Beach, Florida dealer has created one of the most important galleries of American art in the country. Surovek, who has a summer home in Rockport, Maine, has had numerous remarkable works of art come through his gallery, and has advised and consulted for many of America’s most important collectors. The discussion will delve into the many profound and humorous stories drawn from Surovek’s long experience in the American art world.
Cost: $5 members, $10 nonmembers
  
A Conversation with Jamie Wyeth
In conjunction with the museum’s exhibition, Every Picture Tells A Story: Illustrations by N.C. Wyeth from the Brandywine River Museum, Farnsworth Chief Curator Michael Komanecky will talk with Jamie Wyeth about his thoughts on his grandfather, as both an illustrator and painter, the challenge of doing book illustrations, which Jamie has also done, and the influence N.C. has had on his own work.
 
Cost: $15 members, $20 nonmembers

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Wyeth Day Lecture: In Search of a Life’s Work— The Paintings of N.C. Wyeth
The N. C. Wyeth catalogue raisonné records almost 2,000 paintings Wyeth created in a career that spanned five decades. The detailed catalogue entries were informed by a great variety of sources, including the artist’s correspondence, archival material in private and public collections, and hundreds of objects that remain in Wyeth’s studio and home. Christine Podmaniczky will describe the catalogue project and review aspects of Wyeth’s career through a selection of paintings with fascinating stories and documentation.

American Treasures Talk and Tour: Marguerite Zorach’s Land and Development of New England
Zorach’s large-scale 1935 painting relates both her personal history as well as broader cultural concerns with family and regional history. Done during the Great Depression, Zorach’s depiction of a rugged, self-sufficient New England family was part of a widespread effort – on the part of artists, and encouraged by federal art programs – to promote the importance of family and hence to mold national identity. Bianco will examine the meaning of this work in the context of Zorach’s personal family iconography and her large-scale mural projects of the period.
This talk and tour will be led by Assistant Curator Jane Bianco.
 
American Treasures Talk and Tour: Monday, August 19, 2 p.m. John La Farge in Rockland
John La Farge is known best as one of America’s most important designers of stained glass and a rival and contemporary of Louis Comfort Tiffany, La Farge has two works of note in Rockland. His 6 x 5 inch 1888-89 watercolor, Japanese Fisherman, Study of Sunlight, is one of the highlights in the museum’s Small Treasures show. Less well known is his stained glass window in St. Peter’s Episcopal Church. Henry Adams, renowned scholar of American art and author of the definitive study of La Farge, will discuss the artist’s work and these two Rockland treasures.
This talk and tour will be led by Henry Adams, Professor of Art History, Case Western Reserve University
American Treasures Talk and Tour: Re-Making LOVE: Restoring and American Icon
American Treasures Talk and Tour: Louise Nevelson and the Artist’s Environment

Louise Nevelson grew up in Rockland, Maine, but lived and worked in New York City as one of America’s foremost twentieth-century sculptors. She was among the many remarkable artists whose studio work has integrated with their everyday surroundings. Whether creating sculptural environments for gallery or civic spaces or within her personal realm hers was a unique artistic vision that will be explored in this talk on the art environments Nevelson created during the height of her career.
This talk and tour will be led by Assistant Curator Jane Bianco.

American Treasures Talk and Tour: Andy Warhol’s Poppies
Andy Warhol is perhaps best known as America’s most celebrated Pop artist ;  in the 1960’s  he took on American’s burgeoning consumer culture and obsession with celebrity by creating images that elevated commercial advertising to an art form. Warhol, a master of the multimedia, democratized art and made it accessible to the public through printmaking, painting, photography, film, sculpture and music. The Farnsworth owns three works by Warhol, and Poppies is one of the most iconic of his flower series. In her talk, Waldron will show and discuss other examples of Warhol’s Poppy series This talk and tour will be led by Registrar Angela Waldron.
 
American Treasures Talk and Tour: Lucy Trask Barnard and the Maine Rug Hooking Tradition
Lucy Trask Barnard of Dixville Center, Maine, was a prolific quilter and rug hooker, three of whose rugs are in The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. In 2012, the Farnsworth acquired one of her rugs which had descended through her family. Jane Bianco will talk about Barnard’s life and work, and specifically the museum’s new acquisition.
This talk and tour will be led by Assistant Curator Jane Bianco