The Friends of Madison Library will host Art of the Harvest: Autumn, presented by local historian, Bob Cottrell, on Thursday, October 16 at 7pm in the Chick Room.
Harvest scenes are a very common theme in art. This program includes works of art by Winslow Homer, Albert Bierstadt, Benjamin Champney and others. It uses paintings, prints, sketches and photographs to survey historic tools and techniques used to harvest apples, corn, hay, and grains.
Traditional harvest time activities and celebrations such as husking bees, pumpkin carving, and hay rides will also be explored.
Bob Cottrell is the Curator of the Nella Braddy Henney History Room at the Conway Public Library and Curator for the Jackson Historical Society’s Museum of White Mountain Art. He also serves as an independent history and museum consultant, (Curator for hire), and is a speaker with New Hampshire Humanities with his program “Harnessing History: On the Trail of New Hampshire’s State Dog.” He has worked at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American Art in Washington D.C., The Crowley Museum and Nature Center in Sarasota, Florida, the St. Petersburg Historical Museum also in Florida, the Conner Prairie Museum in Indiana and at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. In 1996 he became the founding Director of the Remick Country Doctor Museum and Farm in Tamworth, New Hampshire.
All are welcome