PRICE: Free and open to the public.
TIME: 06:00 pm - 07:30 pm
Robert McCracken Peck
Curator of
Art and Artifacts, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
Edward Lear
(1812–1888), best known for The Owl and the Pussycat and other nonsense
poetry, was also an accomplished painter of birds, mammals, reptiles and
landscapes, and an adventurous world traveler. His paintings of parrots,
macaws, toucans, owls and other birds are among the finest ever published.
Robert McCracken Peck discusses the remarkable life and natural history
paintings of this beloved children’s writer, who mysteriously abandoned his
scientific work soon after achieving preeminence in the field.
Lecture. Free and open to the public. Presented
by the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.