New Ipswich Historical Society invites the public to its summer program, “The Life & Works of New Ipswich Artists: William Jurian and Lee Lufkin Kaula,” by professor Carol J. G. Scollans, at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 18, at the New Ipswich Library, 6 Main St.
For many years, the Kaulas were summer residents of Bank Village in New Ipswich. Both became critically acclaimed New England artists, though they are less well-known today. William focused on landscapes, and Lee explored a variety of genres, but her portraits of women and children were the standouts. William, born in 1871, met Lee while studying art in France, and they married in 1902. William died in 1953, and is buried in New Ipswich Central Cemetery. Lee, born in 1865, died four years later and is buried next to her husband.
Scholar, curator, author and New Ipswich resident Carol Scollans has been a senior lecturer in art history for the art and art history department at the University of Massachusetts Boston for more than 25 years and specializes in the study of American art, in particular, art, artists and collectors from Boston. She has lectured both in the United States and abroad on French and American 19th- and 20th-century painting, sculpture, graphic arts and photography. Her publications include works for the University of Massachusetts press, the New Hampshire Historical Society, Oxford University Press and the University of New Hampshire. She has also been involved in numerous curatorial projects, including most recently Melissa Shook (University Hall Gallery and Grossman Gallery University of Massachusetts Boston) in 2022, Distinguished Members Exhibition (J.A. McNeil Whistler Museum of American Art) in 2019 and “The Life and Works of William Jurian and Lee LufkinKaula” (D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts in Springfield, Mass.) in 2018.
Scollans’ talk will also be broadcast via Zoom. Visit the New Ipswich Historical Society website, newipswichhistoricalsociety.org, for information.