American art scholar Alexander Nemerov will deliver six talks in 2017 as part of the National Gallery of Art’s A.W. Mellon Lecture Series. Nemerov, who teaches art history at Stanford University, will discuss the work of painters like Thomas Cole and John Quidor as part of the series titled The Forest: America in the 1830s. Launched in 1949, the A.W. Mellon Lecture Series was founded “to bring to the people of the United States the results of the best contemporary thought and scholarship bearing upon the subject of the Fine Arts.”