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Contact:
Elizabeth B. Jacks, Director
Thomas Cole National Historic Site
218 Spring Street
PO Box 426
Catskill, NY 12414
(518) 943-7465 ext.3
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Press Releases
2008 Season
| February 2008 |
Thomas Cole National Historic Site Hosts
Open House for Prospective Docents
Do you love history and art? Do you like interacting with people? Interested in the life and works of the 19th-century artist Thomas Cole, the founder of the Hudson River School of art? Want to play a role in preserving and telling the story of his home at Cedar
Grove?
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2007 Season
| September 2007 |
Thomas Cole Historic Site Awarded $320,900 From the National Endowment for the Humanities
The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced a grant award of $320,900 for the Thomas Cole National Historic Site through the "Interpreting America's Historic Places" program, which supports public humanities projects that exploit the evocative power of historic places to address themes and issues central to American history and culture.
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| April
2007 |
Asher B. Durand: Intimate
Observations
The Thomas Cole National Historic Site is pleased to announce the 2007
exhibition at Cedar Grove, Asher B. Durand: Intimate Observations,
which continues a series of exhibitions exploring significant figures
in 19th-century American landscape painting.
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| February
2007 |
Lost Painting Found!
A Tale of Conservation
On Sunday, March 11, at 2 p.m., the “Sunday Salon” at Cedar Grove, the
Thomas Cole National Historic Site, will feature Elise Effmann, former
assistant conservator of paintings at the Kimbell Art Museum and now a
paintings conservator at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
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2006 Season
| July 2006 |
Beautiful Party, Record
Fundraising, at the 2006 "Pic-Nic"
The Thomas Cole National Historic Site held their third annual summer
party at
Cedar Grove on Saturday July 29th, raising a record amount of funds for
their
operations.
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| May 2006 |
New
Website a guide to
historic views
A new way to tour the historic Hudson Valley is now online, weaving art
history and enjoyment of the outdoors into a single experience.
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| February
2006 |
Thomas
Cole Historic Site Presents a New Exhibition
Jasper
Cropsey: Interpreting Nature in America
The
Thomas Cole National Historic Site is pleased to
announce the 2006 exhibition at Cedar Grove, continuing a series of
exhibitions
focusing on significant figures in the rise of 19th-century American
landscape
painting.
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2005 Season
| September
2005 |
Cedar
Grove announces the Fall Schedule of Sunday Salons
This fall, the Thomas Cole National
Historic Site presents an internationally renowned scholar, a tasting
of authentic Hudson Valley farm products, and a Broadway acting star in
its lineup of programming.
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| March
2005 |
Official
Launch of the Hudson River School Art Trail
The Thomas Cole National Historic Site
and the Mountain Top Historical Society team up for a weekend of
special events, June 4-5, 2005
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| January
2005 |
George
Inness: Paintings
A New Exhibition at the Thomas Cole
National Historic Site
Opening May 1, 2005
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2004 Season
| September,
2004 |
Minetta
Brook and the Thomas Cole National Historic Site present VIEW,
an exhibition by Matts Leiderstam
Minetta Brook and the Thomas Cole
National Historic Site present a special exhibition by Matts Leiderstam
titled View in Thomas Cole's “Old Studio” at Cedar Grove in Catskill,
New York. The opening reception will take place on Sunday, October 3,
2004 from 11am to 3pm as part of the ribbon-cutting celebration and
public opening for the “Old Studio,” which was constructed in 1839, and
has recently undergone a major restoration.
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Announcing
the public opening, ribbon-cutting, and celebration of
Thomas Cole's Storehouse Studio
The public is invited to join the
celebration, tour the studio, and enjoy music, refreshments, and a
variety of special exhibitions and presentations from 11 am to 3 pm.
Congressman John Sweeney will be the honorary chair of the event, in
recognition of his role in preserving this important National Historic
Landmark. Admission is free. Thomas Cole's Storehouse Studio, often
called the “Old Studio,” was constructed in 1839 when he was
commissioned to create his famous “Voyage of Life” series.
The
restoration of the Old Studio is made possible by a grant from
"Save America's Treasures", the Catskill-Olana Scenic Mitigation Fund,
and Benjamin Moore & Co..
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Studio
with a past to play major role in Cedar Grove's future
Storehouse studio to open Oct 3 during
ribbon cutting celebration
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| June 8, 2004 |
Cedar
Grove offers hikes back in time
It is the
views of the Catskill Mountains and their
surrounding wilderness that inspired the first exclusively American art
movement, known as the Hudson River School . Although the
artists of this style worked in the early 19th century, many of the
glorious vistas they depicted are still as pristine and untouched today
as they were then. The Thomas Cole National Historic Site is
hosting a series of hikes that will allow participants to follow the
footsteps of these painters and experience the sights, sounds, and
sensations that influenced them.
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| May 2, 2004 |
Cedar Grove's fourth
season accented by collaborative projects
The Thomas Cole National Historic Site
opens its doors to the public Saturday, May 1, for its fourth season of
public tours. Along with new exhibitions and exciting programs,
visitors will benefit from a new spirit of collaboration at the
Catskill home of the founder of the Hudson River School of art.
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| March 29,
2004 |
Paintings
by Ralph Albert Blakelock coming to Thomas Cole
National Historic Site
American painter Ralph A. Blakelock
(1847-1919), one of the most celebrated artists of the late 19th
century, will be the focus of the season-opening exhibition at the
Thomas Cole National Historic Site.
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| December,
2003 |
Former
Marketing
Director of Whitney Museum
Hired at Cedar Grove
The
Board of Governors of Cedar
Grove has announced that Elizabeth B. Jacks, the former marketing
director for the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City , has
been hired to be the new Director of the Thomas Cole National Historic
Site in Catskill , NY
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