Below the Surface: What Scientific Imaging Reveals about Church’s Artistic Process by Maura Lyons

Below the Surface: What Scientific Imaging Reveals about Church’s Artistic Process by Maura Lyons May 18, 2021 While Frederic Church won acclaim during his lifetime for his skills as a painter, a focus solely on Church’s paintings ignores his technical experimentation in multiple media, including drawing and printmaking. In this ...Read More

Below the Surface: What Scientific Imaging Reveals about Church’s Artistic Process by Maura Lyons2024-10-28T14:04:48-04:00

Capturing Nature in Science and Art, or, How to Make an Impossible Picture by Rachael DeLue

Capturing Nature in Science and Art, or, How to Make an Impossible Picture by Rachael DeLue May 11, 2021 The nineteenth-century German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt characterized his life’s work as an endeavor “to represent nature as one great whole, moved and animated by internal forces.” In this presentation, Rachael ...Read More

Capturing Nature in Science and Art, or, How to Make an Impossible Picture by Rachael DeLue2024-10-28T14:04:41-04:00

Frederic Church’s The Natural Bridge, Virginia: American History and Anxiety by Christopher Oliver

Frederic Church's The Natural Bridge, Virginia: American History and Anxiety by Christopher Oliver April 28, 2021 In 1851 Frederic Church travelled through Virginia in the company of his patron Cyrus Field with the goal of reaching and painting that state’s most famous landscape, the Natural Bridge. Formerly the property ...Read More

Frederic Church’s The Natural Bridge, Virginia: American History and Anxiety by Christopher Oliver2024-10-28T14:04:31-04:00

Fallen: In Conversation with Jean Shin

Fallen: In Conversation with Jean Shin April 14, 2021 Join artist Jean Shin as she shares the ideas and ecological urgency behind her new artwork onsite at Olana, Fallen. During this presentation, learn more about Shin’s work and this project, which brings attention to the loss of this once-majestic hemlock ...Read More

Fallen: In Conversation with Jean Shin2024-10-28T14:04:23-04:00

Eliza Pratt Greatorex & Frederic Church: Art, Travel, Faith, Home by Katherine Manthorne

Eliza Pratt Greatorex & Frederic Church: Art, Travel, Faith, Home by Katherine Manthorne March 23, 2021 Eliza Pratt Greatorex (1819-1897) and Frederic Church (1826-1900) were two near-contemporary visual artists of fierce ambition and enormous talent. They inhabited the same New York art world, traveled extensively in the service of their ...Read More

Eliza Pratt Greatorex & Frederic Church: Art, Travel, Faith, Home by Katherine Manthorne2024-10-28T14:04:15-04:00

Into the Maelstrom: The Life and Career of Mary Edmonia Lewis by Kirsten Pai Buick

Into the Maelstrom: The Life and Career of Mary Edmonia Lewis by Kirsten Pai Buick February 24, 2021 In the U.S., one of the earliest and most passionate discussions around the fine arts and their role in defining American identity and national aspirations took place over neoclassical sculpture. Issues of ...Read More

Into the Maelstrom: The Life and Career of Mary Edmonia Lewis by Kirsten Pai Buick2024-10-28T14:04:07-04:00

Sacred Geographies: Frederic Church, the Holy Land, and the Hudson Valley by Jennifer Raab

Sacred Geographies: Frederic Church, the Holy Land, and the Hudson Valley by Jennifer Raab January 6, 2021 During this Olana Perspectives Webinar, Jennifer Raab, Associate Professor in the History of Art at Yale, will investigate how Frederic Church’s travels through the Middle East and his paintings of Jerusalem and Petra ...Read More

Sacred Geographies: Frederic Church, the Holy Land, and the Hudson Valley by Jennifer Raab2024-10-28T14:02:55-04:00

Making it Last: The Art & Science of Preserving Olana’s Paper & Photographic Collections

Making it Last: The Art & Science of Preserving Olana’s Paper & Photographic Collections November 18, 2020 Michele Phillips is the Paper Conservator at the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (NYSOPRHP), working at the centralized conservation labs at the Bureau of Historic Sites & Parks, ...Read More

Making it Last: The Art & Science of Preserving Olana’s Paper & Photographic Collections2024-10-28T14:02:47-04:00

Mexican Rebozo Shawls at Olana & Beyond: From Uncertain Origins to Compromised Future

Mexican Rebozo Shawls at Olana & Beyond: From Uncertain Origins to Compromised Future October 28, 2020 This talk by one of the world’s leading scholars and advocates of Mexico’s rich tradition of textile art will focus on a little known story in Olana’s diverse collections. Marta Turok takes as her ...Read More

Mexican Rebozo Shawls at Olana & Beyond: From Uncertain Origins to Compromised Future2024-10-28T14:02:40-04:00

Looking at Frederic Church, 1975-2020

Looking at Frederic Church, 1975-2020 October 14, 2020 One of our country’s most prominent curator-scholars shares the unique perspective of his decades-long engagement with Frederic Church and Olana. This personal reflection looks back on how he came to know Church, to study him and his work seriously in graduate ...Read More

Looking at Frederic Church, 1975-20202024-10-28T14:02:33-04:00
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