The Stacks and Attics of Our Institutions

Museums around the world put their best pieces on display, but that's only a fraction of what they own. We're going to snoop the stacks and attics of some of our state's most treasured institutions to see what's going on behind the public art scene. And we'll get the skinny on the Currier’s latest acquisition. It’s a still life by William Harnett that was part of a contemporary art exhibit at Boston's MFA -- in 1883. Our guests include Susan Stricker, Director of the Currier Museum of Art; Tom Hardiman, Keeper at the Portsmouth Athenaeum; and Brian Kennedy, Director of Dartmouth's Hood Museum of Art .

A Royal Dessert, 1881, by William Michael Harnett