Harvard Art Museums

At the Harvard Art Museums in Boston, this guide traces the training of an early American painter raised in her father's own studio to master fruit and flowers with unsettling precision. It follows one of five sisters born into a dynasty of painters, and the moment she set a single piece of fruit before her easel and painted it as if it deserved a portrait. You'll hear how far a signature this exacting could carry a career nobody expected a woman to have. Look for the painting under the museum's glass pyramid roof.