Adding India: Lockwood de Forest’s Contribution to Olana’s Interiors July 8, 2020 Sarah Coffin is an independent decorative arts and design consultant, curator, and lecturer, who is a member of Olana’s National Advisory Committee, Most recently for over 14 years, she was Senior Curator and Head of the Product Design and ...Read More

Frederic Church’s Middle Eastern Costume Collection: Its Inspiration and Impact June 24, 2020 Hanan Munayyer is President of the Palestinian Heritage Foundation and a scholar and curator specializing in Palestinian and other Arab traditional dress. Her many exhibition credits include an important contribution as an advisor and essayist for Olana’s 2018 ...Read More

Unplanned Views: The Geological History of Olana June 10, 2020 Robert and Johanna Titus are retired professors of geology and biology. As popular science writers, they have authored four books and a thousand articles about the geology of the Hudson Valley. For years they have been studying how Ice Age ...Read More

Olana Perspectives: After Icebergs at Cooper Hewitt May 27, 2020 Caitlin Condell is the associate curator and head of the Department of Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum where she oversees a collection of nearly 147,000 works on paper dating from the fourteenth century to ...Read More

Olana Perspectives:"Only the Roar Left Out": Frederic Church and Niagara Falls May 20, 2020 Sarah Cash is Associate Curator of American and British Paintings at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Previously she served as curator of American art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, director of the Maier Museum ...Read More

Olana Perspectives: Frederic Church and the Metropolitan Museum of Art May 13, 2020 Dr. Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser is the Alice Pratt Brown Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (appointed in 2010) where she served as co-curator for the Met’s major exhibition: Thomas Cole’s Journey: ...Read More

Olana Perspectives Webinar with Will Coleman May 6, 2020 Olana’s Director of Collections and Exhibitions William L. Coleman, Ph.D. lead an illustrated talk entitled, “Olana as Epitome”. This talk places Olana in a transatlantic history of artist’s houses, and of painter-architects, with the goal of showing the place we ...Read More

Olana Perspectives Webinar with Eleanor Jones Harvey April 29, 2020 Dr. Eleanor Jones Harvey is Senior Curator for 19th-Century Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, where she has worked since 2003. In this special member’s event, Dr. Eleanor Jones Harvey shares her once in a lifetime exhibition Alexander Von ...Read More

Subject Specialist Talk: Frederic Edwin Church & W.H. Osborn: Art, Patronage and Friendship by Dr. Christine Isabelle Oaklander April 22, 2020 Christine Oaklander is an independent art historian and private art consultant with over thirty years of expertise in the field of American art. A native New Yorker, she was inspired ...Read More

Subject Specialist Talk: David Huntington and the Saving of Olana by Dorothy Heyl April 15, 2020 Dorothy Heyl, General Counsel/Chief Compliance Officer at Prima Capital Advisors focuses on the story of how Olana came to be saved is largely an untold tale of passion, generosity, and guts. After Church’s daughter-in-law ...Read More