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Asher B. Durand Detail from Kindred Spirits, 1849 Oil on canvas

How Manly is it to be an Artist? Acclaimed Art Historian to Speak at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site

Released: August 17, 2010

Award-winning art historian Sarah Burns will speak at the Thomas Cole Historic Site (www.thomascole.org) at the 5th annual Raymond Beecher Memorial Lecture on Sunday, October 10th at 2 pm. The title of her lecture is “Outdoor Men: Manliness, Masculinity, and the Antebellum Landscape Painter.” Tickets are $7 per person, or $5 for members of the Thomas Cole site. For information and to purchase tickets call (518) 943-7465 or visit the website: www.thomascole.org/current-events/. The Thomas Cole National Historic Site is located at 218 Spring Street in Catskill, New York. With the Catskills ...

Thomas Cole "Falls of the Kaaterskill," 1826. Oil on canvas, 43 x 36 in.

A Jaunty Stroll Through (Art) History

Released: August 4, 2010

Fifteen scenic miles in the Catskills between The Thomas Cole National Historic Site (www.thomascole.org) and Olana New York Historic Site (www.olana.org) couldn’t be more beautiful. This stretch of history, known as The Hudson River School Art Trail, leads visitors to the sites that inspired America’s first great landscape painters by mapping the sites that inspired works of art by Hudson River School painters Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, Asher B. Durand, Jasper Cropsey, Sanford Gifford and other pioneering American artists. For more information about the Hudson River School Art...