Cape Ann Museum

Discover Fitz Henry Lane Online—a freely-accessible interactive and interdisciplinary online resource created by the Cape Ann Museum. The website is organized around a catalog of the paintings, drawings, and lithographs of nineteenth-century American painter Fitz Henry Lane (1804–1865).

The Cape Ann Museum owns and maintains four unique historic properties, providing visitors with unique and thought-provoking points of entry into the social and economic history of this region over the past 400 years. Three of these buildings form part of the Cape Ann Museum Green and are integral to the Museum's new contemporary art initiatives.

Several artists have captured the unique character of houses on Cape Ann, including painter Edward Hopper and photographers Corliss & Ryan of the past, and painter Jeff Weaver, photographer Gail Albert Halaban, and young students of the present.... continue reading