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Join authors Mark Goldman and Laura Watts as they discuss their new book, Incredible Journeys.

In Incredible Journeys, the authors ask how the most beloved paintings of the AKG traveled from the artist's studio to their place on the walls of the museum. Their journeys were always circuitous and often treacherous. The stories here pull back the curtain on some of the most important people in the history of the museum: Lars Sellstedt, Cornelia Bentley Sage Quinton, A. Conger Goodyear, Seymour Knox, Sidney Janis and others. Many artists, many paintings, many people, many stories, which when taken together, reveal so much about the history of our cherished museum.
 

About the Authors 

Mark Goldman
Born and raised in New York City, Mark has lived in Buffalo for over fifty years, where he has been studying and writing about the city's history. He is the author of seven books on the subject---three narrative histories, a biography of John Albright, a children's book called Max Meets the Mayor, a personal memoir, and now Incredible Journeys.

Laura Watts 
Laura L. Watts is Professor Emerita at Daemen University, where she taught art history and related subjects for more than twenty years in Buffalo, New York. Her research has explored topics ranging from nineteenth-century Italian painting to visual literacy in an image-saturated world and gendered imagery in both fine art and mass media. Now based in Bermuda, she writes art reviews for The Royal Gazette and is collaborating with the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art on the forthcoming exhibition and accompanying catalog, Suitcase Modernism: American Artists in the Atlantic.