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The Decorative Arts Trust Spring Symposium
Plan for a exquisite spring trip to the Hudson River Valley now. Join members of the Decorative Arts Trust for a full and lovely four days seeing the best public and private houses and estates on the upper Hudson, hearing the history, architecture and decorative arts information from leading experts, and enjoying the breathtaking views of the river valley and the Catskills. Host Hotel: The Beekman Arms (visit website). Symposium hotel and travel information available here. Register online now.
Thursday Optional Tour
Thursday, April 22, 2010 8:00 a.m. Depart Beekman Arms 9:00 a.m. Arrive Cedar Grove, the Thomas Cole house with spectacular panoramic views of the Catskills. Cole (1801-1848) known as the father of American landscape painting, had Frederic Edwin Church as his student at Cedar Grove for two years. The house was lived in by the family until 1965. It is restored today to reflect Cole’s time. We will visit the house and the see Cole’s newly restored and furnished studio. 11:00 a.m. Olana, the 250 acre estate of Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900), one of the most important Hudson River painters. This Persian-style villa with original furnishings, Church paintings and Lockwood DeForest furnishings was designed by Church and architect Calvert Vaux.
1:00 p.m. Lunch in Hudson, NY 2:00 p.m. Visit the village of Hudson. Free time to explore 65 antiques shops in 5 blocks. 4:00 p.m. Depart for Beekman Arms 5:00 p.m. Arrive Beekman Arms
Symposium
Thursday, April 22, 2010 5:30 p.m. Cocktails and check-in 6:30 p.m. Welcome, Bruce Perkins, Trust President The Jonathan L. Fairbanks Lecture, 7:30 p.m. Adjourn. Dinner on own Friday, April 23, 2010 8:30 a.m. Depart Beekman Arms by motor coach 9:00 a.m. Arrive for tours of Wilderstein, an Italianate mansion built in 1852 by Thomas Suckley. It was remodeled in 1888 for Thomas’s son, Robert, and Robert’s wife, Elizabeth Montgomery, by architect Arnout Cannon, with interior design by Joseph Burr Tiffany, cousin of Louis Comfort Tiffany. The Trust last visited Wilderstein when Miss Daisy Suckley, his granddaughter was still in residence. The Suckley’s original furnishings and possessions, including portraits of their Livingston and Beekman ancestors, fill this incredible house.
11:00 a.m. Montgomery Place, built in 1804 by Janet Livingston Montgomery. Today it is a well-preserved country estate with furnishings reflecting 180 years of continuous occupancy by Livingston family decendants. Alexander Jackson Davis renewed the house in the 1840s and 60s to become an elegant Classical mansion. Andrew Jackson Downing advised on the romantic park of the surrounding 434 acre grounds. 2:30 p.m. Clermont, 1730-50, 485 acre estate of Robert Livingston, Jr., and subsequently lived in by seven generations of the family. Today it appears with fine furnishings of all three centuries of the family. The wide main hall contains a portrait of Chancellor Robert Livingston, a drafter of the Declaration of Independence.
4:15 p.m. Edgewater, owned by the great collector of classical decorative arts and architecture, Richard H. Jenrette, was built in 1825 by Captain Lowndes Brown and his wife Margaret Livingston, daughter of John R. Livingston. Mr. Jenrette has furnished the house classically and has brought back the Duncan Phyfe furniture of the Donaldson’s. Drinks served at gate house. 5:30 p.m. Depart for Rokeby, a privately-owned Livingston House. Our host Wint Aldrich will welcome Trust members and discuss the history of his family’s house and its place as an important Hudson River Valley home. 6:45 p.m. Depart for Beekman Arms 8:15 a.m. Depart by motor coach for Albany 9:45 a.m. Gather in Auditorium at Institute of History and Art The Dutch Collections of the Institute The Dutch Houses in the Albany Area
11:00 a.m. View Institute collections: the long-term installation of Albany painting, silver and decorative arts, and the exhibit Hudson River Panorama: 400 Years of History, Art and Culture. 12:15 p.m. Walk across the street for lunch at the private Fort Orange Club. 1:30 p.m. Depart for important historic house visits with Roderick Blackburn. 3:30 p.m. Continue on to Coxsackie to visit the Pieter Bronck House 4:15 p.m. The Bronck House is a complex of buildings including the 13-sided barn. Bronck built the stone house in 1663, now the oldest surviving dwelling in upstate New York. The 1738 brick house is an excellent example of rural Hudson Valley Dutch architecture modified by federal period taste. The furnishings are period and include china, glass and silver from several generations of Broncks. 5:30 p.m. Depart for Rhinebeck area 6:15 p.m. Stop at theWynkoop House in Stone Bridge, the country house of Gary Tinterow, Curator of European Paintings at theMetropolitan Museum.We’ll enjoy a glass of wine and depart at 7:00 p.m. 7:30 p.m. Back at hotel. Dinner on own. Sunday, April 25, 2010 9:00 a.m. Hudson River Valley Paintings 10:10 a.m. Rethinking Beautiful Boscobel 11:45 a.m. Closing remarks 12 noon End of Symposium Sunday Optional Tour Sunday, April 25, 2010 Storm King and Boscobel: Outside and Inside Elegance 12:30 p.m. Depart by motor coach (box lunch on the way)
1:45 p.m. Arrive Storm King for tram tours of sculpture gardens. Storm King Art Center, a 500 acre expanse of woods, ponds, lawn and rolling hills, celebrates the relationship between sculpture and nature by contouring and shaping the land to perfectly show the breathtaking Hudson River Valley in harmony with a world-class sculpture. Artists represented include Alexander Calder, Isamu Noguchi, David Smith, Louise Nevelson, Maya Lin, and Andy Goldsworthy. It is a Must See! 3:30 p.m. Depart for Boscobel 4:00 p.m. Boscobel, c. 1804, was begun by Morris Dyckman (1755-1806) and finished by Elizabeth Dyckman, his wife, after his death. Known as one of the most beautiful houses on the Hudson, the furnishings of 5:30 p.m. Depart for drive back to Beekman Arms with sherry and snacks along the way. 6:45 p.m. Arrive at Hotel. End of day. IMPORTANT... HOST HOTEL: The Trust has reserved rooms from Wednesday, April 21, to Monday April 26, 2010. These rooms and the special rate will be held by the hotel until Monday, March 29, 2010. Please make your reservations before this date. TRAVEL:
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Driving is best mapquested or googled by you, but the final leg, the drive on Route 9 along the Hudson River, would be beautiful. Parking is available at the Beekman Arms. |
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