Saturday, November 7, 2009

Panorama of the Hudson River: Greg Miller
Monroe-N.Y. artist Greg Miller exhibits a complete photographic panorama of the Hudson River, including both banks and stretching from Manhattan to Albany. The panorama will be paired with a 1912 photographic panorama developed for the Hudson River Day Line Steamer Company.

Hudson River to Niagara Falls: 19th Century American Landscape Paintings from the New-York Historical Society
To commemorate Hudson 400 celebrations, the museum has organized "The Hudson River to Niagara Falls" - an extraordinary exhibition of 45 landscape paintings from the New-York Historical Society. These beautiful paintings highlight 19th century views of specific sites along the Hudson River from Manhattan through the Hudson Valley and on to Niagara Falls by way of the Erie Canal. Artists represented in the exhibition include Samuel F. Morse, George Inness, Jasper F. Cropsy, Asher B. Durand, John F. Weir, Thomas Cole Albert Bierstadt, and others.

The Hudson River: A Great American Treasure
Opening reception for Greg Miller's "The Hudson River: A Great American Treasure" - large color photographs of mid-Hudson Valley landscapes.

Riverbank: Philippine Hoegen and Carolien Stikker
During their residency at New Paltz, Amsterdam-based artists Philippine Hoegen and Carolien Stikker have created a film projection based on film, videotape, and audio recordings made in the evocative wetlands and tidal areas along the Hudson River.
Stikker and Hoegen explored the Hudson River and environs, especially the flow of water that constitutes the archetype or the idea of the word "river" and our attraction and need for it.

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