Free Lecture: Olana, Salon for Jamaican Journeyers

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Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, Chief Curator and Krieble Curator of American Painting and Sculpture at the Wadsworth Atheneum and Katherine E. Manthorne, Professor of Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center, will present a free lecture developed from research for their essays featured in the Fern Hunting among These Picturesque Mountains exhibition catalogue. The talk will include new scholarship on 19th-century American painters working in the tropics, Church's role in inspiring these artists and the influences and experiences that helped to shape him as an artist. Lecture supported by New York State Council for the Humanities. Register by Friday, June 4th to rsvp@olana.org or (518) 828-1872 x 103. Held at Wagon House Education Center, Sunday, June 6, 2PM