Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Summer Lecture Series at ICA&CA

The Hudson River Valley: An Allegory of its Architecture, Landscape and Artistic Legace, 400 Years After the Voyage of the Half Moon


Catskill Creek, 1845 by Thomas Cole (American 1801-1848),
Oil on canvas, 26 1/2 x 36 inches. The New-York Historical Society, Robert L. Stuart Collection.

LECTURE I – Sponsored by Hammersmith Studios
Wednesday, June 10
The Sanctified Landscape: Memory, Place, and the Mid-Hudson Valley in the Nineteenth Century by Dr. David Schuyler, Professor of American Studies, Franklin & Marshall College

LECTURE II – Sponsored by P.E. Guerin, Inc.
Wednesday, June 17
A Geography of the Ideal: The Hudson River and the Hudson River School by Linda Ferber, PhD, Executive Vice President & Museum Director of the New-York Historical Society

LECTURE III – Sponsored by Peter Cosola, Inc.
Wednesday, June 24
Historic Hudson River Houses 1663-1915 by Gregory Long, President and CEO of The New York Botanical Garden

LECTURE IV – Sponsored by Andrew V. Giambertone & Associates, Architects, P.C.
Wednesday, July 8
Edgewater: Building Classical Architecture along the Hudson River by Michael Middleton Dwyer, architect and editor (Great Houses of the Hudson River, Bullfinch Press, 2001)

Location:
General Society Library
20 West 44th Street
Receptions at 6:30 pm
Lectures to follow at 7:00 pm

Admission:
The ICA&CA Summer Lecture Series is FREE to ICA&CA Members
and employees of Professional Member Firms, as well as all students with current identification
$20 per lecture General Admission; $65 for the full series

To reserve:
RSVP required, call (212) 730-9646, ext. 109 or reserve on-line at www.classicist.org

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