Art in the Family: Three Generations of Peale Painters

Please join us for the online lecture by Kedra Kearis, PhD, in celebration of the exhibition opening.

Exhibition opens April 5th and will be on view until August 15th. Hours 12 – 5 pm, Closed on Tuesdays

Online Lecture: Thursday, April 10 at 7:00 pm

By Kedra Kearis, PhD, Associate Curator of art and visual culture at Winterthur Museum and a faculty member in the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture at the University of Delaware.

    Explore the multi-generational Peale family whose art production spanned more than a century, from the colonial period through the Victorian era. Charles Willson Peale changed the course of American art through his artistic practice, his museum business, and the mentorship of his brother James, as well as his sons and daughters in the arts.

     Discover the remarkable lives of the Peale women–Sarah Miriam, Margaretta Angelica, Anna Claypoole, Mary Jane Peale and others. Working within the Peale art legacy, these women drew upon artistic traditions of the past and contemporary trends across the Atlantic, through their individual art forms of portraiture, still life, and landscape painting.

Bio: Kedra Kearis, is the associate curator of art and visual culture at Winterthur Museum and is a faculty member in the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture at the University of Delaware. Kedra holds a PhD in Art History, an MA in Literature, and a BA in French Language and Literature. Her work examines the intersections of performance, identity, and modernization in the material culture of the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. She has curated “The Peale Painters: Global Perspectives in the Winterthur Collection” now on view at Winterthur Museum.