Please join The Alexander Gallery for the second in a series of receptions for highly focused exhibitions with world renowned curators, art historians, and collectors entitled Minds on Madison: Evenings for Collectors and Scholars.  The intimate setting of these special evenings will provide the ideal forum for provocative discussion in the continued pursuit of connoisseurship. 

November 29th, 2010 6:00 to 8:00pm

Alexander Gallery, 942 Madison Avenue, New York City

A Brush with Romanticism: Thomas Cole in the Rough

On view for this event will be a selection of Thomas Cole’s preparatory oils for his most important works, including two recently discovered for the Voyage of Life and the Course of the Empire.

Our guests of honor for this event will be:

Carrie Rebora Barratt, Associate Director for Collections & Administration, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Elizabeth M. Kornhauser, Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Roberta J.M. Olson, Curator of Drawings, New York Historical Society

Also on view during this event will be an additional exhibition of early American paintings that were published in The Token, a series of gift books popular in the 1830’s and 1840’s.

For more information:

Laurel Acevedo, laurel@alexandergallery.com

Blair Douglas, blair@alexandergallery.com