Past events

February 26, 2009-- 7:30 pm
"Peering through the Veil of Time: Early Views of the Piscataqua by John
Samuel Blunt (1798-1835)"

This lecture will feature rare views of this region by this Portsmouth-born
artist done in the days before photography. In her lecture, Deborah M.
Child, author of The Sketchbooks of John Samuel Blunt, will explore how his
sketches "from nature" and paintings convey the pastoral existence which
once characterized life here.

	"From Nature" Page from 1821 sketchbook 4 3/8 x 8 inches Private Collection
	House on a River Signed and dated "J. S. Blunt, 1827" Oil on canvas, 20 1/2 x 24 inches Bernard & S. Dean Levy, Inc., NY, NY

March 20, 2008 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Guest Lecturer: “Artists in Two Centuries: New Hampshire in a New Light”
Deborah Child on John S. Blunt, 19th-century seacoast artist.
Gary Samson on Lotte Jacobi, 20th-century photographer.
Part of the New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, NH. Part of History Course “Men and Women Who Made New Hampshire” (March-April 2008)

January 16, 2008 5:30 p.m.
Guest Speaker: Great Aunt Florence’s Trunk: Discovering the Artistic Legacy of John Samuel Blunt. Warner House ANNUAL MEETING. Stoodley’s Tavern, Strawbery Banke Museum.

	“Coming of Age on the Piscataqua: John Samuel Blunt’s Views from Nature” Portsmouth Historical Society, Portsmouth, NH. June 1-October 31, 2007. This exhibit of landscape and marine paintings of the Piscataqua region by Portsmouth-born John Samuel Blunt (1798-1835) was the first show of his work in this city since 1830. It featured enlarged pages from his 1821 sketchbook alongside views of the city, the Navy Yard, and the Piscataqua shoreline.
September 12, 2007 Guest Speaker: Great Aunt Florence’s Trunk: Discovering the Artistic Legacy of John Samuel Blunt. Colonial Dames Annual Meeting, Moffat-Ladd House, Portsmouth, NH