On October 22, 2024, Tanya Sheehan (Ellerton M. and Edith K. Jetté Professor of Art) delivered the Normal L. And Roselea J. Goldberg Lecture in Art History at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Vanderbilt’s Department of History of Art and Architecture has hosted prominent art historians to speak in the Goldberg Lecture series since its inception in 2001. Professor Sheehan’s lecture was titled “Public Art, Public Health: Jacob Lawrence and the Murals of Harlem Hospital.” Her research explores the significant connections between the federally funded murals painted in Harlem Hospital in the late 1930s and the images of health and medicine in Harlem created by artist Jacob Lawrence. It considers how and why a commitment to the publicness of Black care took shape more fully in Lawrence’s private images than on the walls of the municipal hospital.