Childhood (1960-06-23)

About this film

Direct from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This series explores man and the world around him through the eyes of artists, past and present, and aims to develop an understanding of art as a direct expression of universal emotions. As the host, Dr. Brian O'Doherty, young Irish poet, painter and art critic, brings a fresh, witty and warmly human point of view to the visual arts. Dr. Brian O'Doherty, a native of Ireland, was a Fellow for Research in Education at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Formerly, he was art critic, reviewer for the Dublin Magazine and lecturer at the National Gallery of Ireland. In this episode, O'Doherty showcases art housed by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston that focuses on children and childhood. Art featured includes paintings by Andre Derain, Thomas Sully, Winslow Homer, Pierre-Auguste Renoir & John Singleton Copley. (Description from WGBH's Open Vault)

Directors & creators

WGBH Educational Foundation

Subjects

Brian O'Doherty, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, American painting, children in art, Andre Derain, Winslow Homer, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Thomas Sully, John Singleton Copley, art education television, WGBH, 1960s educational television, art criticism, Irish American intellectuals

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