Lectures and Films

June 26, 2013
Wednesday, 5:30 p.m.
July 01, 2013
Monday, 2 p.m.
Barry Faulkner’s 1923 folding screen depicting his friend and fellow artist Paul Manship and their wives...
July 02, 2013
Repeats every Tuesday and every Thursday until August 29, 2013.
Tuesday and Thursdays, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Highlight tours will be offered to museum visitors every Tuesday and Thursday at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Art...
July 03, 2013
Wednesday, 2 p.m.
Special Gallery Tour: Every Picture Tells a Story with Roger Dell, Director of Education. During the...
July 02, 2013
Tuesday and Thursdays, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Highlight tours will be offered to museum visitors every Tuesday and Thursday at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Art...
July 05, 2013
Friday, 2 p.m.
Special Gallery Tour: Small Treasures with Angela Waldron, Registrar. During the months of July and August, the...
July 08, 2013
Monday, 2 p.m.
Locally, Fitzgerald is best known as a Monhegan artist, having been introduced to the famed Maine island artist...
July 02, 2013
Tuesday and Thursdays, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Highlight tours will be offered to museum visitors every Tuesday and Thursday at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Art...
July 02, 2013
Tuesday and Thursdays, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Highlight tours will be offered to museum visitors every Tuesday and Thursday at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Art...
July 14, 2013
Sunday, 1 p.m.
The N. C. Wyeth catalogue raisonné records almost 2,000 paintings Wyeth created in a career that spanned...
July 02, 2013
Tuesday and Thursdays, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Highlight tours will be offered to museum visitors every Tuesday and Thursday at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Art...
July 02, 2013
Tuesday and Thursdays, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Highlight tours will be offered to museum visitors every Tuesday and Thursday at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Art...
July 22, 2013
Monday, 2 p.m.
Lucy Trask Barnard of Dixville Center, Maine, was a prolific quilter and rug hooker, three of whose rugs are in The...
July 02, 2013
Tuesday and Thursdays, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Highlight tours will be offered to museum visitors every Tuesday and Thursday at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Art...
July 02, 2013
Tuesday and Thursdays, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Highlight tours will be offered to museum visitors every Tuesday and Thursday at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Art...
July 26, 2013
Friday, 2 p.m.
In this presentation, artist and professor Ken Krafchek will discuss a cultural exchange program he was invited to...
July 29, 2013
Monday, 2 p.m.
The Farnsworth Art Museum began collecting works by Old Town, Maine artist Bernard (“Blackie”) Langlais...
July 02, 2013
Tuesday and Thursdays, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Highlight tours will be offered to museum visitors every Tuesday and Thursday at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Art...
July 31, 2013
Wednesday, 5:30 p.m.
Farnsworth Chief Curator Michael K. Komanecky will interview gallery owner and art historian John Surovek, who in...
August 05, 2013
Monday, 2 p.m.
Louise Nevelson grew up in Rockland, Maine, but lived and worked in New York City as one of America’s...
July 02, 2013
Tuesday and Thursdays, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Highlight tours will be offered to museum visitors every Tuesday and Thursday at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Art...
August 07, 2013
Wednesday, 5:30 p.m.
In conjunction with the museum’s exhibition, Every Picture Tells A Story: Illustrations by N.C. Wyeth from...
July 02, 2013
Tuesday and Thursdays, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Highlight tours will be offered to museum visitors every Tuesday and Thursday at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Art...
July 02, 2013
Tuesday and Thursdays, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Highlight tours will be offered to museum visitors every Tuesday and Thursday at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Art...
July 02, 2013
Tuesday and Thursdays, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Highlight tours will be offered to museum visitors every Tuesday and Thursday at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Art...
August 19, 2013
Monday, 2 p.m.
John La Farge is known best as one of America’s most important designers of stained glass and a rival and...
July 02, 2013
Tuesday and Thursdays, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Highlight tours will be offered to museum visitors every Tuesday and Thursday at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Art...
July 02, 2013
Tuesday and Thursdays, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Highlight tours will be offered to museum visitors every Tuesday and Thursday at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Art...
August 26, 2013
Monday, 2 p.m.
Zorach’s large-scale 1935 painting relates both her personal history as well as broader cultural concerns...
July 02, 2013
Tuesday and Thursdays, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Highlight tours will be offered to museum visitors every Tuesday and Thursday at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Art...
September 04, 2013
Repeats every Wednesday until September 25, 2013.
Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m.
Lecture 1— Who Was Lucy Copeland Farnsworth? Wednesday, September 4, 5:30 p.m.
September 04, 2013
Wednesday, 5:30 p.m.
This lecture will take a closer look at Lucy Copeland Farnsworth--the museum’s founder who grew up and lived...
September 04, 2013
Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m.
Lecture 1— Who Was Lucy Copeland Farnsworth? Wednesday, September 4, 5:30 p.m.
September 11, 2013
Wednesday, 5:30 p.m.
This lecture will take a step back and look more broadly at the value of historic sites, such as the Farnsworth...
September 04, 2013
Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m.
Lecture 1— Who Was Lucy Copeland Farnsworth? Wednesday, September 4, 5:30 p.m.
September 18, 2013
Wednesday, 5:30 p.m.
During the three decades before the Civil War, Greek Revival was the predominant architectural style for Maine...
September 04, 2013
Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m.
Lecture 1— Who Was Lucy Copeland Farnsworth? Wednesday, September 4, 5:30 p.m.
September 25, 2013
Wednesday, 5:30 p.m.
The house built in 1849 by William and Mary Farnsworth and preserved by their daughter Lucy has survived with an...
December 11, 2013
Wednesday, 2 p.m.
Artist Jonathan Fisher was inspired by a number of artists/naturalists who came before him. Lecturer Kay Etheridge...