The Connoisseur of Prints: Experiments in Modern Art at the Jesup Memorial Library

On May 30, 2024 Mollie Cashwell spoke about the Jesup Memorial Library's Print Room and her research while writing her article for the history journal Chebacco.

In 1915 Albert Eugene Gallatin, trailblazing critic, collector, and curator of modern art, launched an influential, four-year stretch of art display at the Jesup Memorial Library. The “Print Room at Bar Harbor,” was the only art collection open to the public on Mount Desert Island.

Mollie Cashwell is co-director of the Cultural Alliance of Maine––a statewide industry alliance advancing the visibility and capacity of Maine's cultural sector––and serves on the boards of the MDI Historical Society and Jesup Memorial Library. Born in Calais and raised near Bangor, she now lives in Lamoine with her husband and two children.

This program was a collaboration between the Jesup Library and the MDI Historical Society.

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