Bettina Norton

Thursdays, March 4 - April 15   10:00 am - 12:00 noon   7 sessions
Vincent Club, 71 Brimmer Street

American prints from the 17th century to the 1930s cover all fields – genre, landscape, humor, politics, social history, portraiture. We will see how these sub- jects were treated by the prominent printmaking techniques as they developed –
for example, when American chromolithography left Europe in the dust. Or the techniques that were used to portray the profound influence of America’s Ashcan School, World War I, and the Depression. We’ll stop there (hoping our “recession” stops where it is, too).

Bettina A. Norton was registrar and in charge of the print collection at the Essex Institute, then director of the Cambridge Historical Society. She is the author of books, pamphlets and articles, most notably on the 19th century American artist, Edwin Whitefield, The Boston Naval Shipyard, Trinity Church in the City of Boston, and the series, Neighborhood Trivia Hunts. From 1995 to 2001 Ms. Norton ran the Beacon Hill Paper/Chronicle. She and her family live in the house in which she grew up.