Historic Deerfield will present a new exhibition, Envisioning America: Deerfield Academy’s Collection of Paintings and Drawings, which highlights significant works of art from the Academy’s collection, many of which have not been on public view for decades. Deerfield Academy, a private boarding school located in Old Deerfield, possesses a rich collection of American art, ranging from colonial American portraiture to early 20th-century modernism. A majority of the works belonged to Rowena Russell Potter (Mrs. Lucius D. Potter, 1880-1960) of the neighboring town of Greenfield. They were given to the Academy in 1960 in honor of her father, Charles P. Russell. …