Sheehan awarded Boston Medical Library Fellowship at Harvard

Through the Boston Medical Library, the Center for the History of Medicine at Harvard Medical School offers annual fellowships to support research in the history of medicine. Tanya Sheehan, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Art, has been awarded a 2019-2020 fellowship to conduct research for her new book on African American artists and their engagement with medicine and public health. The book focuses on the 1930s through the 1960s, when the Harlem-based artistic circle of Charles Alston, Henry Bannarn, Jacob Lawrence, Georgette Seabrooke Powell, and others painted hospital murals, collaborated with medical doctors, experienced their own health crises, and practiced art therapy. Sheehan will spend one month digging into the rich resources of Harvard’s Countway Library of Medicine.