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May 02, 2024

Sheehan delivers invited lecture at Kenyon College’s Gund Gallery

Tanya Sheehan, the Ellerton M. and Edith K. Jetté Professor of Art, delivered an invited lecture at Kenyon College’s Gund Gallery in Gambier, Ohio, April 8, 2024. Titled “Public Art, Public Health: Jacob Lawrence and the Murals of Harlem Hospital,” her presentation examined representations of race, medicine, and health in Harlem between the 1930s and ’50s. Sheehan explores this subject in depth in her current book project, which focuses on the art of Lawrence, his mentor Charles Alston, and the team of muralists Alston supervised at Harlem Hospital in 1936-40. Click here for an image of Sheehan lecturing in the Gund Gallery.