Sunday, April 19th, 2-3:30pm
Join Kevin Avery for an engaging discussion on Thomas Doughty’s 1822 painting Approaching Storm (Land Storm) . Kevin Avery is a senior research scholar at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he served as assistant and associate curator in the American Wing from 1988 to 2008. He holds a B.A. in art history from Fordham University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. Dr. Avery has organized exhibitions including Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford , Treasures from Olana: Landscapes by Frederic Edwin Church , and in 2017, Sanford R. Gifford in the Catskills at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site. From 1983 to 2016, he taught nineteenth-century American art as an adjunct at Hunter College, CUNY. What’s included: Access to the 1846 New Studio for the Sunday Salon with Kevin Avery 50% off General Admission tickets for the day (before or after the Salon) Historic buildings open 11 am–4 pm
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