8th Annual Benefit for 

EDWARD HOPPER HOUSE MUSEUM & STUDY CENTER 
ARTS EDUCATION PROGRAMS

Sunday, October 1, 3:00-6:00 PM

​Hosted by Ellis Sotheby's International Realty
$225 Museum Member Ticket, $250 Public Ticket

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Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center preserves the birthplace and family home of the iconic artist and advances exploration of his legacy in American art and formative Nyack years. This annual Benefit for Arts Education will be held at an amazing historic home in Snedens Landing, a community embedded in the arts since the early 1900s.

Join us at this spectacular waterfront jewel, Moon River. This 5 bedroom home with a private beach on the Hudson was built by artist and local matriarch Mary Lawrence Tonetti. It was designed by renowned architect Eric Gugler, who received commissions across America and Europe, and was hired by FDR to redesign the Oval Office in the 1930s - the same time he designed Moon River.

(Images of "Moon River" home courtesy of Sotheby's International Realty.) 
We give special thanks to the private owner for graciously opening up this historic home for our event, and supporting Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center's art education programs.
Special Guest Speaker
VALERIE BALINT
Valerie Balint is the Director of Historic Artist’s Homes and Studios (HAHS), a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the author of the Guide to Historic Artists' Homes and Studios (Princeton Architectural Press, June 2020). HAHS is a nation-wide consortium of 61 member sites, that were the homes and working studios of American artists. Prior to heading HAHS, Ms. Balint served for seventeen years on the curatorial staff at Frederic Church’s Olana in Hudson, New York (also a HAHS site), most recently as Interim Director of Collections and Research. She was co-organizer and co-curator of Olana’s annual exhibitions and accompanying publications. She is a frequent lecturer and writer on preserved artists’ spaces, Frederic Church, the Hudson River School, and American art and social history of the mid-19th and early 20th century. She is co-author of Glories of the Hudson: Frederic Church’s Views from Olana (Cornell Press, 2009). Her previous work also includes positions at Chesterwood and the Frelinghuysen Morris House & Studio, both in the Massachusetts Berkshires (and both HAHS sites). She served as the New York State Coordinator of “Save Outdoor Sculpture,” a program of the Smithsonian American Art Museum to document all public sculpture in the United States. Balint is a longtime advocate for recognizing and valuing the important place artists’ homes and public art hold within the greater context of cultural history in America.
Open Bar, hors d'oeuvres, and Light Fare
by Mimi's Plate

Live & Cause Auctions
with Eric Shiner,
president of Powerhouse Arts, Brooklyn, NY

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OMISSIONS FROM THE CANON: ARTISTIC REPRESENTATIONS OF INDUSTRY ALONG THE HUDSON RIVER IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES 

BY DR. ANNETTE BLAUGRUND

$15 Members of the Museum & Historical Society of the Nyacks, $20 Public
Wednesday, October 4, 6:00-7:15pm
Ticket includes a glass of wine. 

During the 19th century, at the height of the Hudson River School, ideas about the function of art, and anxiety about the environment resulted in little fine art documenting industry and shoreline erosion along the Hudson. In this lecture the esteemed American art curator Dr. Annette Blaugrund will examine rarely seen works of art that were neither popular nor easily accessible to a wide public through published reproductions. While including some images of the Hudson as a natural paradise, it will focus on images of industry and how they evolved from 19 C. concealment and omission to 20th C. promotion and pride. It includes one of Edward Hopper’s watercolors of nearby Hook Mountain.
Picture
Edward Hopper, "Hook Mountain, Nyack," c. 1899, watercolor, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Josephine N. Hopper Bequest © Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper/Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
ABOUT DR. ANNETTE BLAUGRUND

Annette Blaugrund, former director (and first woman director) of the National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts (1997-2007), has published and lectured widely on diverse subjects in American art and culture. She has been the Andrew W. Mellon senior curator at the New York Historical Society, a curator at the Brooklyn Museum and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She has written sixteen books about American art including some about the Tenth Street Studio Building, the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris, and John James Audubon. In 1992 she was named a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government, and in 2008 she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Design, among other honors. She holds a Ph.D. in art history from Columbia University (1987) where for six years she taught American art (1996-2001).

​Currently she is the consulting curator at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, NY, sits on Columbia University Art History Department’s Advisory Council, and is co-curator and project manager for a forthcoming exhibition on this lecture topic at Columbia’s Wallach Art Gallery.

Ellsworth Kelly: ​STATES OF THE RIVER

On view until Sunday, Nov 26 (Thanksgiving Weekend)
             
Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center is pleased to join the Ellsworth Kelly Studio and other U.S. museums and venues in celebrating the centennial of the birth of Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015), widely regarded as one of the most important painters, sculptors, and printmakers of his time. Edward Hopper (1882-1967) was equally fascinated by water, from the Hudson River, which he observed daily in Nyack as a youth and in New York City as an adult. Both artists came to distill the most essential features of the natural world in their mature works. 
Picture
Ellsworth Kelly, States of “The River” 2005, Suite of eight lithographs on Arches cover, Edition of 25, Each sheet: 45 1/4 x 32 inches (114.9 x 81.3 cm) Overall size framed: 47 x 284 inches (1.19 x 7.21 m)
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