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“Trans-American Landscape Art”

Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros & Olana in dialogue in the exhibition OVERLOOK By Dr. Katherine Manthorne, Professor of Art History, Graduate Center, City University of New York Click here to read the full article.

“Trans-American Landscape Art”2024-04-11T18:44:35-04:00

“A Healthy Kind of Discomfort”

By Sean E. Sawyer, Ph.D., Washburn and Susan Oberwager President From May through October this year Olana will witness a confrontation between two of our country's most prominent artists; one, Frederic Church, who achieved fame 150 years ago, and another, Teresita Fernández, who is reaching it today. This has come ...Read More

“A Healthy Kind of Discomfort”2024-05-17T13:13:23-04:00

The Olana Partnership Launches 2017 Programming

By Amy Hufnagel, Director of Education The complex challenges facing cultural organizations today require an ability (and willingness) to be contemporary in intention and action (even when historic) and mindful of every opportunity to delight visitors. I aspire to SuperMuseum qualities (as defined by Aimee Chang, Director of Engagement at ...Read More

The Olana Partnership Launches 2017 Programming2024-05-08T17:01:25-04:00

Olana’s Volunteering Pioneers

Olana’s original guides and hosts Mary Ann Bikes, Alice Gold, Kay Sterns, Ruby Funk, Ruth Karmer and Mary Mazzacano in the Court Hall, c. 1960s, Olana Collection By Daphne Mayer, Membership and Volunteer Coordinator In this 50th anniversary year of Olana opening to the public as a NY ...Read More

Olana’s Volunteering Pioneers2024-04-10T19:27:09-04:00

Olana’s Summer House Designers: IN THEIR OWN WORDS

Mark Prezorski, Senior Vice President & Creative Director “I am building a house and am principally my own Architect. I give directions all day and draw plans and working drawings all night.” — Frederic Church, 1871 “I am busy landscape architecturing!” — Frederic Church, 1887 The words of Frederic ...Read More

Olana’s Summer House Designers: IN THEIR OWN WORDS2024-04-12T17:40:00-04:00

Louis and Sally Church: First Stewards of the Olana Legacy

Valerie Balint, Interim Director of Collections and Research Last year we celebrated the saving of Olana in 1966, and its long-term successful stewardship and restoration through the collaborative efforts of New York State and The Olana Partnership. As we know, in 1953, over a decade before Olana Preservation Inc., ...Read More

Louis and Sally Church: First Stewards of the Olana Legacy2024-04-30T16:40:15-04:00

Memories of Olana, to Olana

Olana’s original guides and hosts Mary Ann Bikes, Alice Gold, Kay Sterns, Ruby Funk, Ruth Karmer and Mary Mazzacano in the Court Hall, c. 1960s, Olana Collection By Melanie Hasbrook, Development and Marketing Communications Manager “Well here I am! At last – looking at a perfect Eden of ...Read More

Memories of Olana, to Olana2024-04-09T18:16:55-04:00

Autumn Fires: Fall Foliage Arrives at Olana—Inside and Out

Valerie A. Balint, Interim Director of Collections and Research A tree in its fall glory last week at Olana “When the autumn fires light up the landscape you will see Nature’s palette set with her most precious and vivid colors. . .” Frederic E. Church to fellow ...Read More

Autumn Fires: Fall Foliage Arrives at Olana—Inside and Out2024-04-30T17:28:46-04:00

Olana’s 50th – Celebrating the past, envisioning the future

Sean E. Sawyer, Ph.D. Washburn & Susan Oberwager President, The Olana Partnership A week from tonight The Olana Partnership will hold our annual Frederic Church Award Gala in New York City. This event is absolutely crucial to our work at Olana – providing over a third of our operating ...Read More

Olana’s 50th – Celebrating the past, envisioning the future2024-05-09T16:43:56-04:00

Olana Plein Air: Artist as Inspiration

Valerie Balint Interim Director of Collections and Research “It is a particularly lovely Autumn here . . . mainly soft weather toned to suit an Artist’s eye.” Frederic E. Church to painter John Ferguson Weir from Olana, October 1891 This past weekend I had the pleasure of hosting a ...Read More

Olana Plein Air: Artist as Inspiration2024-04-30T17:45:10-04:00
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