Olana State Historic Site. Sunday, March 8, 2020. 11 am.Join Katherine Manthorne, Professor of Art History, Graduate Center, City University of New York, for a special focus on “Cayambe” by Frederic Church.

The intercontinental travels of 19th-century artists such as Frederic Church and Martin Johnson Heade will be highlighted in our 2020 collaborative exhibition “Cross Pollination.” Church’s oil sketch of the Andean peak Cayambe demonstrates his close study of nature and the pre-Columbian cultures of South America and reveals how he forged a tradition of traveler-art that spans from the 19th century until today.

Space is very limited, reservations required.

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Dr. Katherine Manthorne of the CUNY Graduate Center doctoral program in art history will deliver a talk on two remarkable women: the scandalous Eliza Jumel, celebrity, art collector, briefly the wife of Aaron Burr, and resident of the historic Morris Mansion that served as Washington’s Headquarters during the battle of Harlem Heights; and artist Eliza Pratt Greatorex, who portrayed the house in her book Old New York from Bloomingdale to the Battery.

Manthorne’s biography of Greatorex is being published  by University of California Press, and is due out this fall.

PDF: JumelElizaLectureMar20

Asher B. Durand. Summer Afternoon. Collection of David and Laura Grey

Curated by Katherine Manthorne, Ph.D, Professor of Modern Art of the Americas, Graduate Center, City University of New York, in collaboration with Amy Galpin, Ph.D., Chief Curator, Frost Art Museum.

From the museum website

“Cultural identity in the United States has been long intertwined with its magnificent landscapes, from the dense forests of New England to the open terrain of the West. These landscapes extol the unique beauty of this country and relate to the first significant art movement in the United States, known as the Hudson River School. The artists who painted these American landscapes worked during a time of increasing industrialization and growth of technology—not a coincidence of history but a lens on ecocritical thinking of the time.  Modern industry changed the culture and economic future of this country, but also gave rise to concerns about the preservation of a natural environment often described as a Garden of Eden. While much of Transitional Nature focuses on U.S. landscapes, depictions of Greenland and Ecuador exemplify the international travel undertaken by nineteenth-century artists in further pursuit of untrammeled terrain. Artists working today frequently address the beauty and complexity of landscape, drawing our attention to environment and ecology. Transitional Nature will feature a selection of works by contemporary artists that will connect in powerful ways the past of the Hudson River School to the present art world.”

The exhibition opens to the public January 25, 2020, remaining on view through May 17, 2020