Vol. 33, No. 2 “De Nieu Nederlanse Marcurius” June 2017 Events of Interest information go to: or capturing the effects of light on www.albanyinstitute.org. different surface textures. This June 9 and 10, 2017. “The Dutch exhibition explores the work of Dou in Connecticut: Exploring New *** and his contemporaries through the Netherland’s Fresh River.” Last Through September 17. “An Inner focused theme of the inner summer NNI took New Netherland World,” is an exhibition at the world—considering tradition and to Rochester, New York. This Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, innovation in the representation of summer we are visiting Hartford, MA supported as part of the Dutch figures in interior spaces, Connecticut. This summer’s Culture USA program by the individuals in moments of program will include a reception Consulate General of the contemplation or quiet exchange, (cash bar) at the “Black Bear Netherlands in New York. Genre and the enduring taste among Saloon” on Friday night with a painting— scenes depicting collectors for fijnschilderijen. keynote address by Russell Shorto, everyday life—flourished in the For more information go to: author of The Island at the Center Dutch Republic in the seventeenth clarkart.edu of the World. Saturday’s program at century. The style of fijnschild- the Old State House in Hartford erijen (or fine painting: highly will feature talks from historical detailed, naturalistic paintings Save the Date painter Len Tantillo, New rendered with an extraordinary The year 2017 marks the 100th Netherland Research Center precision of brushstrokes) became anniversary of women’s suffrage in Director Charles Gehring, New particularly popular in the New York State. The New Netherland Research Center university city of Leiden as a result Netherland Institute will use this Associate Director Janny Venema, of the artistic innovations centenary and our Annual Connecticut State Historian Walter developed by the painter Gerrit Dou Conference to highlight the role of Woodward, archaeologist Lucianne (1613–1675). Dou’s small-scale, women in the development of New Lavin, and the New Netherland finely executed genre scenes, which Netherland and early New York. Institute’s Associate for often feature a single figure leaning The conference will convene in Educational Materials Jessica Maul. out over a stone window ledge, Albany, New York at the New York For registration and more inform- display a splendid degree of illusion State Museum on the 22nd and 23rd ation go to our website. in the depiction of space, light, and of September 2017. The program *** material surfaces. The exquisite will open on Friday morning with a Until June 18, 2017. “Wampum character of these works, taken talk by NYU professor Susanah World: An Art Installation” by together with their possible Romney titled “Housewives and Renée Ridgway is on display at the symbolic or moralizing meaning, Businesswomen: Changing How Albany Institute of History and Art. encourages close study by viewers. We Think about Dutch Women in This multimedia exhibition is an Artists working in and around the Atlantic World.” Other artist’s interpretation of the Leiden in the late seventeenth and confirmed participants and their changing meaning of wampum early eighteenth centuries talks are Ruth Piwonka, “Trading from culture to culture and time responded to Dou’s themes and Ladies: What did they have in period to time period. It combines painting style in significant ways, common?”; Artyom Anikin, “The video installations and the artist’s whether by taking up the motif of a Short History of Witch Trials in watercolors and collage works with figure peering out of a stone Colonial New York”; Peter G. objects that the artist has selected archway or ledge, depicting the Rose, “Ms. Cookbooks as from the museum’s collection of intellectual meditations of a scholar, Documents of Social and Family Dutch colonial materials. For more History”; Dirk Mouw, “Women and New Netherland Institute, Box 2536 Empire State Plaza Station, Albany, NY 12220 Voice: 518-486-4815 | Fax: 518-473-0472 [email protected] | www.newnetherlandinstitute.org Nieu Nederlanse Marcurius 2 the Dutch Reformed Church in Dutch masters’ interest in chapters deal with connections and North America: What We Can naturalistic representation and their comparisons between the two Learn from Congregational formidable and distinctive pictorial groups, most are focused on either Records”; Lana Holden, “Catalina skills. the Northeast or the Midwest and Trico”; Bill Greer, “Who Wears the For more information and beyond. Happily, in scrutinizing Trousers?”; David Voorhees, thumbnails of the collection, go to: these papers, New Netherland “Women in Leisler’s Rebellion”; artgallery.yale.edu/ researchers will see possibilities for Julie van den Hout,” Mary Doughty selections-van-otterloo-collection comparing and linking to this later van der Donck: This Preacher’s *** period while the scholars of the Daughter was no Shrinking Violet”; For those of you in The Netherlands Midwestern Dutch will recognize Kate Lynch, “‘She Removed to the or planning to visit there this opportunities to make connections Dutch Against the Advice of Her summer, one of our members to the Dutch colonial period. Friends’: Lady Deborah Moody and wanted you to know that Kiliaen Insights into various Dutch New Netherland’s Dissident van Rensselaer’s house in Hasselt American topics on both sides of Women”; Karen Hess, “Ariaantje near Zwolle, the town where he was the divide are presented in Sharing Coeymans.” If you would like to be born, is open to the public on Pasts: immigration; wilderness and notified when registration becomes request for visiting. Go to this site cultural persistence; Dutch available, see our homepage under and scroll down toward the bottom American culture moving west; the News & Events. for an address and photo of the Dutch and Indians under English estate: colonial rule; American influence http://tiphasselt.nl/bezienswaar on Dutch communities and News digheden/ churches; and the rekindling of Over the past two decades, affection for the Netherlands in Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo America. If researchers are looking have assembled one of the most Publications for topics on the Dutch in America, magnificent private collections of When in 2015 the Association for they will find them here. 17th-century Dutch art in the world, the Advancement of Dutch Henk Aay, Janny Venema, comprising superb examples of American Studies [AADAS] and Dennis Voskuil (eds), Sharing nearly all the major categories of the New Netherland Institute Pasts: Dutch Americans through subject matter explored by artists of decided to organize a joint Four Centuries (Holland MI: Van the time: portraits, landscapes, conference, “The Dutch in America Raalte Press, 2017). 284 pp.; church interiors, still lifes, genre Across the Centuries: Connections $25.00. The book can be ordered scenes, and more. All of the works and Comparisons,” the motivation through the NNI. in the van Otterloo collection are was to build connections between *** distinguished by their remarkable two major institutions for research Revolution Song: A Story of quality, enviable condition, and on the history of the Dutch in American Freedom by Russell dazzling display of pictorial craft. America: the NNRC/NNI, which Shorto, author of the acclaimed The Van Otterloos continue to focuses mostly on colonial New Island at the Center of the World. pursue their learned Netherland and its legacy in the With America’s founding principles passion—which extends to Northeastern United States, being debated today as never before, 17th-century Dutch furniture and beginning in 1609, and the Russell Shorto looks back to the era decorative arts as well—as they AADAS, which specializes more in in which those principles were expand their collection of the Dutch immigration wave to the forged. Drawing on new sources, he masterworks and generously make Midwest and its impact, beginning weaves the lives of six people into a their rare and cherished paintings in 1847. Due to this geographical seamless narrative that casts fresh accessible through loans to divide, scholars of the Midwest are light on the range of experience in museums and exhibitions. not very familiar with the history of colonial America on the cusp of The Yale University Art Gallery New Netherland and, vice versa, revolution. While some of the has put on view an extraordinary scholars of New Netherland are not protagonists a Native American group of 30 paintings borrowed very knowledgeable about the — warrior, a British aristocrat, George from the Van Otterloo collection, history of the Dutch in the Midwest Washington play major roles on featuring works by Frans Hals, and beyond. — the field of battle, others—a woman, Gerrit Dou, Jacob van Ruisdael, Jan Twelve papers presented at this a slave, and a laborer struggle no van de Cappelle, Pieter Saenredam, conference comprise Sharing Pasts: — less valiantly to realize freedom for Jan Steen, Willem Claesz Heda, Jan Dutch Americans through Four themselves. Porcellis, and others. This imposing Centuries. They illuminate this group brilliantly demonstrates the geographical divide: while some Nieu Nederlanse Marcurius 3 Through these lives we scholars of New England families asset, and an opportunity to spread understand that the Revolution was, had already done for that colony. Willem III’s influence around the indeed, fought over the meaning of Kenney’s book Stubborn for globe. The completion of the individual freedom, a philosophical Liberty was commissioned by New translation of Volume 23 would idea that became a force for violent York State to commemorate the bring the number of translated change. A powerful narrative and a Bicentennial of the Declaration of volumes in the NYCM to eighteen brilliant defense of American Independence in 1976. This work and will bring us one step closer to values, Revolution Song makes the also influenced and inspired me, as the goal of translating all the compelling case that the American it did a great many other historians, records in this irreplaceable Revolution is still being fought who now realized that the Dutch collection.