Symposium: Revisiting the Hudson: Nineteenth-century Landscape Painting in Context

Date: 11/07/09
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Audience: Public
Sponsored By: Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
Location: Lecture Center 102
Contact: Lori Schmidt, x3875, Schmidtl@newpaltz.edu
Web Site: http://www.newpaltz.edu/museum

In conjunction with the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art "Hudson 400" exhibitions, this all-day symposium will focus on the exhibition "The Hudson River to Niagara Falls: 19th-century American Landscape Painting from the New-York Historical Society." The keynote speaker is Linda Ferber, Senior Art Historian, The New-York Historical Society. Invited speakers will address the cultural and historical context of the exhibition, featuring experts in the areas of sociology, social history, cultural history, geography and literary history, as well as nature, transcendentalism and business. Participating speakers include Kevin Avery, Associate Curator, Dept. of American Paintings and Sculpture, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harvey K. Flad, Emeritus Professor of Geography, Vassar College; Kenneth Maddox, Art Historian, Newington-Cropsey Foundation; Kenneth John Myers, Curator of American Art, Head, Department of American Art, Detroit Institute of Arts; Roger Panetta, Visiting Professor of History & Curator of Hudson River Collection, Fordham University; Kerry Dean Carso, Assistant Professor of Art History, SUNY New Paltz, and others.