Jane Kamensky: Art & Revolution: The Predicament of John Singleton Copley

This talk, drawn from Kamensky's award-winning book A Revolution in Color, traces the life and work of painter John Singleton Copley through the war-torn Atlantic of the 1770s and 1780s. Seen through Copley's penetrating gaze, the American Revolution emerges at an intimate scale, full of fears as well as hopes, losses as well as gains.