Creating an Icon: Edward Augustus Brackett’s visit to John Brown’s Prison Cell

Speaker: Laura C. McDonald, Art Collections Registrar at Tufts University Art Gallery.

McDonald will share the amazing story of the bust sculptor Edward Augustus Brackett carved of abolitionist John Brown and will trace how the bust went missing at Tufts University. WAM will share an update on its conservation project of Brackett’s Shipwrecked Mother and Child.