Editor Gregory Cerio welcomes us to the March/April 2021 issue
On Books – Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex by Katherine Manthorne
A biography of the forgotten Hudson River school artist Eliza Pratt Greatorex.
Built Environment: A Masterpiece Made by Graft
Amid the pale, Grecian mediocrity of Lower Manhattan’s civic center stands a monument of unaccountable excellence, the Tweed Courthouse at 52 Chambers Street.
The Green Jewel
Most of New York City’s Victorian heritage has vanished so thoroughly that few of the locals have any idea that it ever existed.
The Statues of Central Park
New York City’s Central Park was a prescient masterstroke of urban planning in the nineteenth century. Completed in 1874, the green space created by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux flowers on, vital in every sense, as a living work of art.
Star Power
A Pawnee war club offers an object lesson in interpreting Native American art
Master Drawings: An event for the Ambulatory Art Lover
After the hoopla of Americana Week and the glitter of the Winter Show, the art connoisseurial scene in New York takes takes a decidedly soigné turn with the Master Drawings program.
Women’s work at Hawthorne Fine Art
As the cultural tides seem finally to be lifting women artists into prominence on par with their male counterparts, more and more are emerging into public view. Several museums and galleries are presenting women artist- Hawthorne Fine Art focused shows, and one of these is at Hawthorne Fine Art in New York, where you can find the selling exhibition Breaking All Bounds: American Women Artists (1825–1945).
Maverick women at the MCNY
Victorian-era womanhood typically conjures images of ever-decorous ladies in bustles and dainty gloves. Lesser known are the women who pushed boundaries and flouted traditional roles—some through political activism or professional pursuits, others by simply living their lives as they desired.
A lost Jacob Lawrence painting rediscovered
The panel is one of five from a narrative series whose whereabouts have been unknown to scholars for nearly sixty years
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