Gallery Talk | Poetic Truths: Hawthorne, Longfellow, and American Visual Culture, 1840-1880

Please join us for a gallery talk with Nicholas A. Basbanes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow biographer and National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar, and Laura F. Sprague, senior consulting curator, Bowdoin College Museum of Art. They will share observations about Henry Longfellow and Nathaniel Hawthorne and their influence on nineteenth-century American visual culture.
 
This event is presented in conjunction with Poetic Truths: Hawthorne, Longfellow, and American Visual Culture, 1840-1880, on view February 6 through July 20, 2025 at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, and Before They Were Famous: The Student Days of the Class of 1825, on view at the Hawthorne-Longfellow Library, Bowdoin College through June 6, 2025.
 
This event is free and open to the public. No registration is required. The talk will begin at 10:30 a.m. in the Museum’s Pavilion.

Images: 
Left: Charles Osgood, Portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne,1840, oil on canvas; Courtesy, Peabody- Essex Museum.
Right: Margaret F. Foley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1866, marble; Courtesy, McGuigan Collection.

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