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Visit our education pages to find out about signing up for student visits to our historic house museums. SPLIA will also come to your school with historic long island programming.
Or call SPLIA Monday through Friday 9am-5pm
631-692-4664
| ON EXHIBIT NOW THROUGH JANUARY 2011 - ROMANTIC LONG ISLAND; 19TH CENTURY IMAGES - FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LONG ISLAND ANTIQUITIES
As Romanticism manifested itself in America in the middle decades of the 19th century, Long Island "the garden of the middle colonies" became a source of artistic inspiration for the movement's embrace of nature and the picturesque. Our agrarian traditions, virgin landscapes and rural idealism provided a wealth of subjects for artists who sought aesthetic dimensions. Nostalgia for simpler times, the movement's antidote for a rapidly industrializing America, is particularly seen in the Currier & Ives views included in the exhibit. Many are by Fanny Palmer (1812-1876) the graphic artist who Nathanial Currier frequently sent out to Long Island in his carriage to sketch first hand. Recording genre scenes, set in nature's panoply, are paintings and drawings by William S. Mount (1807 - 1868), his younger contemporary William Davis (1829 -1920) and the German emigre artist Edward Lange whose highly detailed depictions of country seats and their landscape gardens also expressed the age's aesthetic for the picturesque. Romanticism in America also shared in the idealism and developed apace with the emergence of national identity, hence, the exhibit also includes works awash in the metaphors of nationalism such as James Bard's (1815-1897) flag festooned depiction of Steamboat Seawanhaka, a lithograph of Sag Harbor's Suffolk Guard and an eagle embossed Civil War drum manufactured by A. Rogers of Flushing. Comprised of a variety of artistic mediums and featuring many works never before exhibited by SPLIA.
SPLIA Gallery is located in Cold Spring Harbor at the corner of Route 25A and Shore Road (across from the fire house) and is open Wednesday through Sunday 11am until 5pm. (Admission $1). For more information, please call the Gallery at 631-367-6295, the Society's headquarters at (631) 692--4664 or visit our website at www.splia.org.
The exhibit was organized by Robert B. MacKay, Director of the Society, in consultation with Franklin Hill Perrell, former Curator of the Nassau County Fine Arts Museum.
| THE LONG ISLAND APPLE FESTIVAL IS SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 AT SPLIA'S SHERWOOD-JAYNE FARM IN EAST SETAUKET-
Features apple pie baking contest, traditional music, pony rides, hay rides, colonial games, historic house tours and much more! Sponsored by SPLIA, Homestead Arts and Three Village Historical Society.
Admission: $6 Adults, $4 Seniors and Children (2-12),
At Sherwood Jayne Farm
55 Old Post Road
East Setauket
11am until 4:30pm
For more information call 631-692-4664
| CALLING FOR NOMINATIONS TO SPLIA'S 2011 LIST OF ENDANGERED SITES. DOWNLOAD A FORM AND MAKE YOUR NOMINATION TODAY!
Historic properties spanning the length of Long Island are regularly threatened by a variety of complex issues that all point to a need for their greater appreciation and protection. To raise awareness, SPLIA launched its Endangered Sites Program for Long Island in January 2010. Our first list, drawn from island-wide submissions, is summarized in the latest issue of Preservation Notes and nominations forms for 2011 are now available. Please join in this effort to protect what matters. If you know of an important historic property that is threatened, download a form and nominate today!
Click here to download SPLIA's Endangered Sites nomination form. The deadline for submissions is October 15th 2010.
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