170 Central Park West Non-Profit New York, New York 10024 U.S. Postage PAID New York, NY Permit #376 Lincoln and New York through March 25, 2010 E a P W S n p r x d o i r h n i g n I i m t b r e p g o a a i n r r m t n t 2 a / o n i S u 0 e t o e n s s p c c e h n a 1 g e m e s d 0 e s 2 n u -3 t le Dear Members & Friends, I know you will enjoy the spectacular array of programs and exhibitions Letter described in this brochure! As always, I am grateful to Bernard and Irene Schwartz for their generous support of our distinguished speakers’ series, from and to our talented Vice President for Public Programs, Dale Gregory and the President all of her “team.” It gives me great pleasure to be able to announce that, thanks to your continued support, the New-York Historical Society will soon begin work on its newest—and most exciting—project: a major renovation of our left: Central Park West façade and the redesign of our first and lower level Dennis Larkins and Peter Barsotti, interior spaces. In addition to enhancing the physical beauty of our Radio City Music landmark building, this project will enable new educational spaces and new Hall poster , galleries to showcase the treasures of the Society’s museum and library October 22-31, 1980 (detail) collections. New spaces will include a permanent installation on the history Courtesy of Special of New York and the nation; a children’s history museum—the first of its Collections & Archives, kind in New York; a first-ever children’s history library; and a new University of California, Santa Cruz café/gallery space. There will be some changes in our schedule as the Grateful Dead Archive renovation project progresses. Please consult pages 2 and 3 of this brochure for more details. front cover: John James Audubon For those of you who want to be in on the ground floor (and what a ground with Maria Martin Fork-tailed Flycatcher floor that will be!) NOW is the best time to become an N-YHS member or (detail), Havell plate to renew and upgrade your membership. Starting this month you can no. 168, 1832 receive two years of benefits for the price of one! Watercolor, graphite, pastel, gouache, Your two-year membership benefits include: black ink on paper. Purchased from Mrs. • Half-price tickets to all public programs John J. Audubon • Unlimited free admission to three important new exhibitions New-York Historical • A special invitation to our grand re-opening celebration in November 2011 Society Please see pages 30 and 31 for more details about our new levels of back cover: membership and page 29 for our “Take Your Seat in History” offer. The Old Bull Dog on the Right Track (detail), 1864 I look forward to seeing you soon! Published by Currier and Ives Department of Prints, Photographs, and Architectural With best regards, Collections New-York Historical Society LOUISE MIRRER, PH.D. PRESIDENT and CEO New-York Historical Society From April 1, 2010 through December 31, Spring 2010 –Fall 2011 2010, these exhibitions will be open to the Renovatpublic ait the Noew-York Hisntorical Society: Schedule During Renovation • Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New-York Historical Society (March 5 – July 4, 2010) The New-York Historical Society will begin construction on its Central Park • Life for a Child: The Discovery of Insulin West façade and new permanent galleries on April 1, 2010. In November (September 14 – December 31, 2010) 2011, the Society will reopen with new, path-breaking exhibitions, perma - nent installations, and galleries for visitors of all ages; a new “destination” film on New York and the nation by acclaimed filmmaker Donna Lawrence; Opening September 17, 2010, the Society and a new café/restaurant. will offer a major, new history exhibition During construction, from April 1, 2010 to on view at El Museo del Barrio: November 2011, the following will operate • Nueva York (September 17, 2010 – January 9, 2011) without interruption: Nueva York , a major, new history exhibition that deals with the fasci - nating and never-before told story of relations between the city and • THE BERNARD AND IRENE SCHWARTZ DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS SERIES the Spanish-speaking world, beginning in the 17th century. This The Series will continue to offer a full schedule of public programs, with exhibition will be on view at El Museo del Barrio, 1230 Fifth Avenue a temporary location at the New York Society for Ethical Culture at 2 at 104th Street, Wednesday through Sunday, 11:00 am – 5:00 pm. West 64th Street at Central Park West. Programs will continue to be N-YHS members receive free admission to El Museo and discounts at held in the evening, from 6:30 – 7:30. Walking tours offered as part of the El Museo’s store. Society’s public programs series will continue as scheduled. This project is supported by a grant from The Rockefeller Foundation’s New York City • EDUCATION PROGRAMS Cultural Innovation Fund. The Society’s full schedule of programs for teachers will be offered both onsite and offsite, and for students in schools throughout New York The Society will also offer exhibitions through City. Outreach programs for students will bring reproductions of the Society’s artwork, objects, and documents into classrooms around the its traveling program, including: city, continuing to bring history to life for thousands of students and • The World of Asher B. Durand: The Artist in 19th-Century America teachers. Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain, October 2010 – mid January 2011. • Nature and the American Vision: Masterpieces of The Hudson River School at • WEBSITE The Society’s brand new website will be available with improved online the New-York Historical Society collections access and resources for students, teachers, historians, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth,TX, February – May 2011 history buffs, shoppers, and so on. • John Rogers: American Stories The Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University • THE LIBRARY will remain open. Park, PA, February 22 – May 15, 2011; The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN, June 19 – October 9, 2011 • THE HENRY LUCE III C ENTER FOR AMERICAN CULTURE will remain open by appointment. • A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, Albuquerque, NM, • THE MUSEUM STORE will remain open. May 8 – August 21, 2011. 52 NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY 3 VISIT WWW.NYHISTORY.ORG FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION John Brown: The Abolitionist and His Legacy Nature and the American Vision: The Hudson River School September 15, 2009 through March 25, 2010 at the N-YHS Planned by the Gilder Lehrman Institute in collaboration with N-YHS September 15, 2009 through March 25, 2010 October 16, 2009 marked the 150th anniversary of John Brown’s doomed More than 60 famous paintings by artists of the Hudson River School, raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown, an ardent abo - including Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, John F. Kensett, Jasper F. Cropsey, Elitionistxwho believed in rachial equality, embraced viibolence as a means to end itionsand Albert Bierstadt in an exhibition drawn from the Society’s extraordinary slavery. Executed in 1859, he has been both vilified as a murderer and cele - American art collection. brated as a martyr. This exhibition of rare materials from the Gilder Lehrman Collection and N-YHS explores Brown’s beliefs and activities at a Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New-York Historical Society critical juncture in American history and the struggle for civil rights. March 5, 2010 through July 4, 2010 This remarkable exhibition represents a unique collaboration between Lincoln and New York the University of California at Santa Cruz and the N-YHS, and is the October 9, 2009 through March 25, 2010 first major display of materials from the Grateful Dead Archive Abraham Lincoln was a Westerner who kick-started his donated to UC Santa Cruz in April 2008. The exhibition examines presidential run in New York. This Lincoln Bicentennial the history of the band, its music, and phenomenal longevity exhibition of original artifacts, iconic images, and docu - through an array of original art and documents, with highlights ments, many in Lincoln’s hand, fully traces for the first ranging from record contracts and tour itineraries to fan art, stage time the evolution of Lincoln’s relationship to New York: props, and instruments. Together the materials provide a unique from his 1860 Cooper Union address, to his efforts to pre - glimpse into the political and social upheavals and artistic awakenings serve the Union, and to the wartime threat to civil of the 1960s and 1970s, a tumultuous and transformative period that liberties. Lincoln’s evolving stance on slavery alternately shaped the decades that followed as well as our current cultural and political infuriated and pleased African-American New Yorkers, Herb Greene, 710 landscape. many of them veterans of the anti-slavery movement and Ashbury Street, San Underground Railroad activism. In a period in which Francisco, CA, 1966. New York: A Portrait of the City New York supplied the Union with manpower, funding, Courtesy of Special Ongoing Collections & Archives, image-making, and protests, Lincoln grew as a leader, A group of 22 paintings and 2 small sculptures offers visitors a chronological University of journey through highlights of the N-YHS’s rich collection of New York writer, symbol of Union and freedom, and, ultimately, as California, Santa Cruz national martyr.
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