**PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A VIRTUAL PROGRAM THAT WILL TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM. Registrants will receive a link to access the Zoom Webinar via email.**  

Explore five of the most prominent American artists during our Revolutionary War; their artistic contributions, as well as their involvement with the politics of the time. Although Benjamin West spent the period of the war in London, he trained and inspired three generations of American artists. While John Singleton Copley tried to take a bipartisan approach during the war, Charles Wilson Peale was an exemplary patriot and served under George Washington. Gilbert Stuart, a Loyalist, spent the war in Great Britain, yet with his return in 1793, his paintings of George Washington became icons of the Revolutionary War. Complete our study with John Trumbull, personal aide to Washington, who has been referred to as "The Painter of the Revolution."  

Led by Martha Chiarchiaro, owner of Seeing History, who has brought history to life through the art of the times for more than 30 years. She received her Masters’ degree in the History of Art from Williams College and provides a variety of art history presentations at the Worcester Art Museum, the Worcester Institute for Senior Education (WISE), libraries, senior centers, and a variety of garden clubs.

Register directly on Zoom HERE. Sponsored by the Corning Foundation and the Friends of the Library.

NOTE: This program will be recorded. All registrants will receive the recording via email within 24 hours of the program.

Art Caption: Gilbert Stuart, Portrait of George Washington, 1796-1803, Oil on canvas, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA