Tag: Olana
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Me and Frederic Church
So, I had to start putting together a slide presentation for the workshop at Olana this Saturday, right? I thought I’d try to start out with a little bit of what Church might have seen as his ship passed through the South Aegean. Well, this is what we see (almost) outside our bedroom window in…
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Reminder: Olana Workshop – October 11 (Let’s Get Decorating!)
If you are looking for something to do over Columbus Day Weekend in New York, how about a visit to Olana in Hudson, NY? Maybe you know it, maybe you don’t – Olana is a marvelous place, an Orientalist Fantasy with views of the Hudson River designed by 19th C. landscape painter Frederic Church. I…
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It’s from Kos, it’s Italian, it’s in New York
I just love this sketch! It is a drawing for a detail of an iron gate from the 1920s for (if I remember correctly) the entrance gate of a government building on Kos (Cos), the island that I see out my window. At the time, Kos belonged to Italy, having been occupied by the Italians…
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October on the Hudson
It’s official – I’ll be in NY from October 8-25! For anyone around Hudson NY (north of NYC, south of Albany), I’ll be at Olana on October 11 for a lecture/workshop on architectural decoration. You can find the details of the program on the web site of the Olana State Historic Site (click here). If…