Exhibitions of what American painter took place at Amory Hall?
Amory Hall (Boston) Amory Hall (c. 1836-c. 1872) was located on the corner of Washington Street and West Street in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th-century. Myriad activities took place in the rental hall, including sermons; lectures by Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Lloyd Garrison; political meetings; exhibitions by Rembrandt Peale, George Catlin, John Banvard; moving panoramas; magic shows; concerts; and curiosities such as the "Nova Scotia Giant Boy."
William Pierson Jr. William Harvey Pierson Jr. (June 4, 1911 – December 3, 2008) was an American painter and art historian. Teaching studio art and art history at Williams College for most of his career, Pierson was in large part responsible for the development of the cadre of Williams-educated museum curators and art historians now known as the Williams Art Mafia, including Earl A. Powell III of the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, Glenn D. Lowry of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, James N. Wood of the Art Institute of Chicago and the J. Paul Getty Trust and Thomas Krens of the Guggenheim Museum in New York.