Margaret and Terry Stent Distinguished Lecture in American Art: Elizabeth “Betsy” Broun
“The Promise of America: The High’s American Art Collection Through the Lens of History”
Saturday, September 23, 2017
Hill Auditorium

In this talk, Broun examines a piece of artwork from the High’s American art collection for each decade of the nineteenth century and shows how it captures what was happening in the country at that time.

Betsy Broun is the former director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery in Washington, DC.

This talk was generously supported by the Margaret and Terry Stent Distinguished Lecture Series in American Art Endowment.