April 5 - 28 April 2024, will bring 50 artworks from the collection of Dr. Gregory Conn to the Hammond Castle, primarily drawn from his new book " Eric Pape in the New York Herald Tribune". These artworks include many surviving examples of his celebrity personality portraits drawn for the Tribune during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The highlight of the exhibition with be the loan of the full-length portrait painted by Eric Pape of Gertude Cawein, wife of Louisville poet Madison Cawein, by the Filson Historical Society of Louisville, Kentucky. This will be the first time this portrait has been seen outside the Filson Museum. Gertrude will be traveling to the Hammond Castle Museum where she will be undergoing important conservation by Timothy Neill, the art conservator who repaired and conserved the massive mural "Wireless Naval Battle on Gloucester Bay" by Eric Pape, which hangs in the Hammond Castle.
