Home on the Hudson:
Women & Men Painting Landscapes 1825-1875

Exhibition: CUNY-Boscobel Collaboration @ Boscobel Restoration,
Garrison, NY
June 7-Sept. 7, 2009; for details see: http://homehudson.com

Rewald Symposium: Friday, June 12, 9:30AM - 5:00PM
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave, NYC
Martin E. Segal Theatre

Program:

9:30 Welcome: Katherine Manthorne, organizer of the Exhibition

Morning Session: CUNY Seminar Students, Short Papers. 9:45AM - NOON

Leslie Anderson on Sanford Gifford
Gwen Farrelly on John William Hill
Eva Gratta on Seth Eastman
Yoshi Kai on Panorama of the Hudson
Oli Robbins on Thomas Doughty

Whitney Rutter on Jasper Cropsey
Nicole Simpson on the Hudson River Portfolio
Whitney Thompson on Fanny Palmer
Shannon Vittoria on Julie Hart Beers
Fotini Xydas on Jervis McEntee

Afternoon Session Scholars of American Art, 12:30PM - 5:00PM

Welcome, Geoff Platt, Director, Boscobel
Kevin Murphy, Executive Officer, Art History Program, Grad Center, CUNY

"Asher B. Durand: Philosopher of the Hudson"
Adrienne Baxter Bell, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Art History,
Marymount Manhattan College.

"Heade, the Hudson, and the Luminists"
Jonathan Clancy, Sotheby's Institute of Art, New York.

"'Ever Rest': Jasper F. Cropsey's Home on the Hudson."
Kenneth W. Maddox, Ph. D., Art Historian, The Newington-Cropsey
Foundation.

Coffee Break

"Sanford Gifford, Son of Hudson, Paints the Hudson"
Kevin J. Avery, Assoc. curator, Dept of American Paintings & Sculpture,
Metropolitan Museum.

"George Inness, Spiritualism, Swedenborg, and the Landscape."
Dr. Charles Colbert. Portland State University, Portland, Oregon.

"Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists-of the Hudson River School?"
Nancy Siegel, Associate Professor of Art History, Towson University.