Jonathan Fisher (1768-1847), resident Congregational minister in Blue Hill, Maine was writer, linguist, inventor, architect, surveyor, farmer, pastor, naturalist, artist-and traveler. His drawings of animals were developed as finely worked engravings in boxwood over a period of several years, resulting in the completed work, Scripture Animals, Or Natural History of the Living Creatures Named in the Bible which is the focus of the exhibition, A Wondrous Journey: Jonathan Fisher and the Making of Scripture Animals (on view starting March 23 in the Craig Gallery).

Jonathan Fisher (1768-1847), resident Congregational minister in Blue Hill, Maine was writer, linguist, inventor, architect, surveyor, farmer, pastor, naturalist, artist-and traveler. His drawings of animals were developed as finely worked engravings in boxwood over a period of several years, resulting in the completed work, Scripture Animals, Or Natural History of the Living Creatures Named in the Bible which is the focus of the exhibition, A Wondrous Journey: Jonathan Fisher and the Making of Scripture Animals (on view starting March 23 in the Craig Gallery).

 

Lecturer Britta Konau is an independent art critic, writer, and curator.

Location: Farnsworth auditorium

These two illustrated lectures will provide an in depth look into works recently acquired by the museum, which are currently a part of the Recent Acquisitions exhibition (on view through March 10). Important American modernists, Marguerite Zorach, William Zorach, and Georgia O’Keeffe, were all born in 1880s and became significant artistic figures in the twentieth century—inspired as they were by nature and by the feminine.