CAM docent Sarah Wetzel repeats her popular Winter Shorts tour which offers musings on Judith Sargent Murray, born in Gloucester May 1,1751, and her husband the Rev. John Murray. This special tour takes place in the Cape Ann Gallery in conjunction with Ours Souls are by Nature Equal to Yours: The Legacy of Judith Sargent Murray and explores Judith’s voice and influence during the time of the birth of our country and the birth of the first Universalist Church here in Gloucester.
Free for CAM/JSM members or with Museum admission. Space is limited; reservations required. Register online at Eventbrite or call (978) 283-0455 x10.
Credits: John Singleton Copley, Portrait of Mrs. John Stevens (Judith Sargent, later Mrs. John Murray), 1770 –72. Oil on canvas, 50 × 40 in. (127 × 101.6 cm), Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Art Acquisition Endowment Fund, 2000.6. | Judith Sargent Murray to President George Washington, March 29, 1798. GW Papers, vol. 287-item 104; Series 4, General Correspondence, 1697–1799. Collection of the Library of Congress.
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Gloucester, MA 01930
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