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  • Sunday, October 21, 2:00 pm – Frederic Church’s Olana on the Hudson: Art, Landscape, and Architecture

    As the leader of the acclaimed Hudson River School, Frederic Church made his name as a painter of large and enduring landscapes throughout the mid-1800s. His talents can be seen throughout the interior and landscapes of his property Olana, located in the heart of the Hudson River Valley. On Sunday, October 21 at 2 pm, join Larry Lederman, photographer of historical and important building interiors and landscapes as he discusses his newest book. Explore the stunning 250-acre estate through Larry’s images, including panoramic and aerial views, sunsets, and detail shots. A book signing will follow. The lecture is part of the 22nd Annual Boston International Fine Art Show taking place October 18 – 21 at the Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts. The event is free with admission to the show. For more information visit http://www.fineartboston.com/special-programs

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  • Thursday, October 16, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – The Origins and Legacy of the Catskill Forest Preserve

    Dr. Paul K. Barten, Professor and Honors Program Director, Department of Environmental Conservation at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst will speak on Thursday, October 16, from 7 – 8:30 in the Hunnewell Building of the Arnold Arboretum on the topic of The Origins and Legacy of the Catskill Forest Preserve.  The Catskill Forest Preserve was established in 1885 and protected as “wild forest, forever” with an 1894 amendment to New York’s Constitution. This designation represented a major change in public opinion and political will as well as an early success for the fledgling conservation movement. The landscape paintings of Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, and other Hudson River School artists, the stirring fiction of Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper, and the writings of George Perkins Marsh and John Burroughs had a dramatic and formative influence on societal values and attitudes. This opened a new era in which the damage to forest ecosystems by tanbark peelers, “cut and run” loggers, and market hunters could no longer be reconciled with the “the greatest good of the greatest number in the long run” and a thriving tourism industry. The presentation will conclude with some thoughts on where we appear to be as a nation on the forest preservation—conservation—utilization spectrum in the 21st century.  Fee $5 Arboretum member, $10 nonmember.  Thomas Cole painting of Catskill Creek from www.images.fineartamerica.com. Register online at https://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?EventID=1.  

  • Saturday, August 18, 4:00 pm – The Sanctified Landscape: The Beginnings of Historic Preservation in the Hudson Valley

    Dr. David Schuyler will discuss New York’s Hudson Valley as America’s first iconic landscape, while unraveling a history of idealization, revolution, pre-environmentalism, and creative power in the 19th and early 20th centuries, on Saturday, August 18, beginning at 4 pm on Olana’s East Lawn.  Olana, the historic home of Frederic Edwin Church, is located at 5720 Route 9G, Hudson, New York. He traces how an emerging sense of place, aesthetic identity and American historical associations became synonymous with the Hudson Valley, and increasingly ingrained in national consciousness – ideas advanced by popular authors such as James Fenimore Cooper and Washington Irving, and Hudson River School painters including Thomas Cole and Frederic Church. David Schuyler has been a professor at Franklin and Marshall College for over thirty years.  He also serves on Olana’s National Advisory Committee.  He is the author of Apostle of Taste: Andrew Jackson Downing 1815 – 1852, and The New Urban Landscape: The Redefinition of City Form in Nineteenth-Century America.  Presented by The Olana Partnership.  Call 518-828-1872, x 103, to reserve, or email rsvp@olana.org for more information.