NOVEMBER 2009 SYMPOSIUM
Revisiting the Hudson: Nineteenth-century Landscape Painting in Context
Saturday, November 7
Lecture Center room 102
Information: 845-257-3875
SPONSORED BY THE
SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART AND
SUNY NEW PALTZ DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY
In conjunction with the Hudson 400 celebrations, the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art and the Department of Art History at the State University of New York at New Paltz are organizing a symposium focusing on The Hudson River to Niagara Falls: 19th-century American Landscape Painting from the New-York Historical Society exhibition now on view at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz through December 13th.
8:30 a.m. Welcome
9:00-11:00 a.m.
"Scenes ‘most impressive and delightful': Nineteenth-century Artists and Tourists in the Shawangunks, Catskills, and Hudson River Valley,"
Harvey K. Flad, Professor Emeritus of Geography, Vassar College
"Glories of the Hudson,"
Evelyn Trebilcock, Curator, Olana State Historic Site
"The Hudson Highlands: ‘A Fifty-mile Extension of Broadway,'"
Kenneth W. Maddox, Art Historian, The Newington-Cropsey Foundation
11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Lunch break
Tours of the exhibition The Hudson River to Niagara Falls: 19th-century American Landscape Painting from the New-York Historical Society will be available at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
1:00-2:00 p.m.
KEYNOTE: "A Geography of the Ideal: Thinking about the Hudson River and the Hudson River School,"
Linda Ferber, Senior Art Historian, the New-York Historical Society
2:00-5:00 p.m.
"Maya on the Hudson: Frederic Church's Cayambe and the ‘Folly' of Cruger's Island,"
Kevin J. Avery, Associate Curator, Department of American Paintings and Sculpture, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Adjunct
Professor, Hunter College, City University of New York
"Ruins on the Hudson and Beyond: The Nineteenth-century Delight in Decay,"
Kerry Dean Carso, Assistant Professor of Art History, SUNY New Paltz
"Thomas Cole: The Artist as Conservationist,"
David Schuyler, Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor of the Humanities and Professor of American Studies, Franklin and
Marshall College
"The Parlor in the Landscape: Nineteenth-Century Picnic Paintings and the Invention of a Middle-Class National Identity,"
Reynolds J. Scott-Childress, Assistant Professor of History, SUNY New Paltz
"William Wade's 1847 Panorama of the Hudson River from New York to Albany: Reading the Landscape,"
Roger Panetta, Visiting Professor of History, Fordham University
Promotional support for the event has been provided by the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area and the National Park Service.
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