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Kevin Murphy to Host Commodore Classroom in NYC on September 30

Posted by on Tuesday, September 25, 2018 in Events, HART, Lectures, News, Student/Alumni, Vanderbilt University, VRC.

800px-Olana,_August_2015New York’s historic Hudson Valley has been a crucible for art making since the mid-nineteenth century. Since the publication of Washington Irving’s Legend of Sleepy Hollow in 1820, the region’s storied history has excited the imaginations of literary figures, visual artists and patrons, including the Vanderbilt family.

Kevin Murphy, chair and professor of history of art, will host the Metro NY September 2018 Commodore Classroom in New York City on September 30. Murphy will introduce Vanderbilt alums to some of the major cultural figures of the Hudson Valley, from Washington Irving to Edith Wharton to Frederick Church—the Hudson River School painter and builder of “Olana.”  His lecture, “The Historic Hudson Valley: Crucible of the Arts,” will conclude with remarks from guest artist Vincent Pomilio who paints in the Hudson Valley and whose work is currently on view at the Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, New York.

*Olana is the home, studio and designed landscape of Hudson River School painter Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900). Built between 1870 and 1872, Olana is a hybrid of Victorian and Middle Eastern architectural styles, designed with the help of Calvert Vaux, one of the architects of Central Park.

 

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