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Maine at 200 Series: A Century of Portland Painters, a talk with Earle Shettleworth

A Century of Portland Painters, a talk with Earle Shettleworth

Thursday, February 25, 6-7pm

Join us as Earle Shettleworth discusses portraits and landscape paintings from Maine Historical Society’s collection.

About the speaker: At the age of thirteen, Earle Shettleworth became interested in historic preservation through the destruction of Portland’s Union Station in 1961. A year later he joined the Sills Committee which founded Greater Portland Landmarks in 1964. In 1971 he was appointed by Governor Curtis to serve on the first board of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission, for which he became architectural historian in 1973 and director in 1976. He retired as director of the Commission in 2015. In 2004 Governor John E. Baldacci appointed him as State Historian, and he was reappointed to a second term by Governor Baldacci in 2008 and to a third term by Governor LePage in 2014. He received a B.A. in Art History from Colby College in 1970, an M.A. in Architectural History from Boston University in 1979, and an L.H.D. from Bowdoin College in 2008, and an L.H.D. from the Maine College of Art in 2012.

Feb 25, 2021 06:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)