Appearances

“Imagined Pasts: The Material Culture of the Wyeth Family of Artists,” closing keynote of the 78th annual Colonial Williamsburg Antiques Forum, February 24, 2026. October 2025 Curator’s talk for the exhibition Cropsey, Wyeth, and the American Landscape Tradition which is on view at the Brandywine through May 2026. July 2025 Curator’s talk for the nationally traveling exhibition Andrew Wyeth at Kuerner Farm: The Eye of the Earth which was on view at the Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, NC; Brandywine; and Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, FL through 2025-early 2026 Curator’s talk for the exhibition Andrew Wyeth: Human Nature which was on view at the Brandywine through mid June 2025. March 28, 2025 “The Art of the Islands: Andrew & Betsy Wyeth’s Creative Partnership” for the Colby College Island Campus Lecture Series, November 8, 2024 Curator’s talk for the exhibition Every Leaf & Twig: Andrew Wyeth’s Botanical Imagination which was on view in parts at the Farnsworth and Brandywine, and a consolidated checklist traveled to the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Ct. March 6, 2024 Curator’s talk for the exhibition Andrew Wyeth: Home Places, which was on view at the Brandywine Museum of Art in 2023 and at the Farnsworth in 2025. February 7, 2023 “Speculative Spirit: The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds in Context“, invited lecture for the Chrysler Museum of Art in conjunction with their ongoing major in-gallery conservation effort on the largest canvas Thomas Cole ever made. June 5, 2022 “Old Objects and New Audiences: The Hudson River School Today”, invited lecture for the New Britain Museum of American Art in conjunction with their exhibition The Poetry of Nature: Hudson River School Landscapes from the New-York Historical Society. March 20, 2022 “Transatlantic Dialogues in American Landscape Art”, MFA Visual Arts Lecture Series, Institute of Art & Design, New England College, March 5, 2021 “The Recursive Landscape: Cole and Beyond” Sunday Scholars lecture, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, January 12, 2020 “The Country House in American Art”, from the Symposium Buildings and Brushstrokes: Art Architecture and the Promise of America at George Washington’s Mount Vernon, May 27-29, 2016 “Thomas Cole’s Country Houses”, Sunday Salon lecture at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site, March 13th, 2016