Cape Ann Museum

Cape Ann Museum, 27 Pleasant St · Gloucester · capeannmuseum.org

5 upcoming lectures and talks from Cape Ann Museum, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All lectures in Greater Boston →

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Thu Oct 22 · 12:30pm

Artful Conversations: “Morning, Gloucester Harbor,” by Frederick J. Mulhaupt

Cape Ann Museum · Downtown Campus · Gloucester · Gloucester

A docent-led look at one painting newly on view: Frederick J. Mulhaupt’s Morning, Gloucester Harbor (c. 1920), a view of the working waterfront where sail, steam and local maritime life meet. The session opens in the Education Room with an introduction before moving into the galleries. The guide, Charles Browne, studied art history, practiced architecture in New England and Texas, and paints in oils and watercolors.

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Sat Oct 24 · 2pm

CAM Talk: From Clay to Bronze, The Making of the Seated Cat, by Robert Shure

Cape Ann Museum · Downtown Campus · Gloucester · Gloucester

Sculptor Robert Shure talks about Seated Cat, his new bronze in the museum’s renovated courtyard, an enlargement of Katherine Lane Weems’s 1941 work of the same name. He discusses his past work with Weems and the dialogue between their two cats. Shure trained at the Cascieri-di Biccari sculpture studio, which he moved to Woburn in 1990 as Skylight Studios, where he makes public monuments and restores historic sculpture.

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Thu Nov 5 · 12:30pm

Artful Conversations: John Sloan’s “Scavenger Rocks”

Cape Ann Museum · Downtown Campus · Gloucester · Gloucester

Docent Dan Duffy leads an hour on John Sloan’s Scavenger Rocks (1914), a recent acquisition, starting with Sloan’s stays at East Gloucester’s Red Cottage from 1914 to 1918 and the granite outcropping near Niles Beach that he painted, shown in photographs, before moving into the galleries to look at the canvas. Duffy has run Rockport’s Beech Tree B&B with his wife Helene for 16 years.

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Thu Nov 19 – Thu Dec 3

Artful Conversations: “Baptism,” by Anne Rearick

Cape Ann Museum · Downtown Campus · Gloucester · Gloucester

This docent-led hour looks closely at Baptism, a 2025 photograph by Anne Rearick, whose work is featured in a special exhibition at the museum. Working in the documentary tradition through long relationships with the people she photographs, including in Gloucester, Rearick pictures shared public spaces where communities gather and build traditions. Docent Miriam Weinstein, whose Yiddish: A Nation of Words won a National Jewish Book Award, leads the conversation.

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Thu Dec 10 – Thu Dec 17

Artful Conversations: Conversations between Regionalism and Modernism

Cape Ann Museum · Downtown Campus · Gloucester · Gloucester

Docent Tobi Klein explores the meeting of American Modernism and Regionalism on Cape Ann, using a 1916 Stuart Davis sketch, Sketch–Church Tower, and Gifford Beal’s Sword Fisherman (1930) to look at how artists answered the upheaval after World War I and why many painters turned to detailed scenes of rural life during the Depression. Klein, a mixed-media artist in Rockport, taught painting and drawing at Rochester Institute of Technology.

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