Sunday Forum in the Parlor
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Paintings and Sculptures
Renowned sculptor Daniel Altshuler will be here! He will create an original piece of art, while telling us about the three busts on the mantelpiece in our Parlor, which he created —those of Dana McLean Greeley, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau. A gallery talk on Ezra Ripley and the life and paintings of Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts will be presented by Barbara Forman, artist and licensed Concord Guide. She will tell us fascinating stories about the lives of two individuals. Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts, Impressionist landscape painter, a friend of John Singer Sargent, and founder of the Concord Art Association, was “a woman ahead of her time, an accomplished artist, businesswoman, and patron of the arts.” Ezra Ripley served as minister of First Parish longer than any other —63 years, from 1778 to 1841—and led the congregation in 1826 away from the trinitarian doctrine to that of the unitarian. The painting of Ezra Ripley, which is now over the mantel in the Parlor, was one of those saved from the fire in 1900.