Exhibition showcases masterworks of Hudson River School artists\r\nIn October 1825, Thomas Cole, a young, unknown artist, boarded a Hudson River steamboat at the New York City docks and traveled about 100 miles north to the village of Catskill, where he hiked into the mountains to sketch.
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\nUpon his return the following month, he produced from his sketches three large landscape oil paintings of the Catskill wilderness that caught the attention of the New York art scene and launched an American art movement.
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\nSelected masterworks of Cole and 11 other artists of the Hudson River School are being showcased this fall in the Leonard and Mildred Rothman Gallery of the Phillips Museum of Art in F&M’s Steinman College Center. “The Hudson River to Niagara Falls: 19th-Century American Landscape Paintings from the New-York Historical Society” opened Sept. 12 and runs through Dec. 15. The exhibition’s sponsors are Jennifer M. and Mark S. Kuhn ’85 and the Thomas A. and Georgina T. Russo Family Foundation.
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\nThis is the first time the exhibition has been shown outside of New York. It comprises 24 paintings produced between 1818 and 1890, portraying landscapes, historic sites and natural wonders of the Empire State—from the Hudson River, to the Catskill and Adirondack mountains, to Niagara Falls on the western boundary of the state.
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\nThe paintings are drawn from the venerable collection of the New-York Historical Society in Manhattan, the oldest museum in New York, which has organized the exhibition. It is part of the “Sharing a National Treasure Program,” said Linda Ferber, vice president and senior art historian of the 209-year-old society.
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\n“This is the first of our traveling shows to visit a campus outside of New York State, [and] we are especially delighted to share these important paintings with the Phillips Museum at Franklin & Marshall College,” Ferber said. “One of the goals of ‘Sharing a National Treasure’ is to bring important exhibitions to college and university museums where they can provide rich teaching opportunities, whether lectures, symposia or, best of all, courses organized around their content.”
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\nDavid Schuyler, F&M’s Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor of Humanities and American Studies, is incorporating the exhibition into his foundations course, “Rivers and Regions,” and his “American Landscape” class. Michael Clapper, associate professor of art history, will use it in his “American Art” class. Louise Stevenson, professor of history and American studies, and Alison Kibler, associate professor of American studies and women’s and gender studies, will include it in their “American Studies Senior Seminar.” Fourteen other classes also plan to use the exhibition in their coursework.
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\nThe landscapes reflect themes of discovery, exploration and settlement, and people are depicted comparatively small against the enormity of the nature around them. Among the paintings to be displayed are Cole’s “Sunset View on the Catskill,” from 1833, and Asher B. Durand’s “View of the Shandaken Mountains,” from 1853. These two painters and their works were critical to the movement’s growth, said Schuyler, author of the 2012 award-winning book “Sanctified Landscape: Writers, Artists and the Hudson River Valley, 1820–1909.”
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\nA deeply spiritual man who saw divinity reflected in nature, Cole emigrated in 1818 from England at age 17. He was an itinerant portrait artist in cities such as Philadelphia and Pittsburgh before journeying up the Hudson River and into American cultural history. Durand, one of three patrons who purchased the landscapes Cole had completed upon returning from the Catskill Mountains in 1825, was an engraver. However, by the 1830s he had become a landscape artist. His detail in trees and rocks helped define Hudson River School painting. He would go on to mentor other painters.
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\nSchuyler said the phrase “Hudson River School” was never used by the artists. It was a term coined by an art critic in the 1870s to denounce the paintings as old-fashioned. The artists viewed themselves as landscapists, and they used their paintings as testaments to the importance of appreciating and preserving nature, Schuyler said.
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\n“They were united by a shared interest in exploring the American landscape, and it all started with the Hudson Valley,” he said. “Here we find not just the first truly American expression in art, but the seeds of the conservation movement of the late 19th century, and of environmentalism in our own time.”
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\nTeri Edelstein, consulting director of the Phillips Museum of Art, praised Eliza Reilly, retired director of the museum, and Schuyler for making the exhibition possible at F&M.
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\nThe exhibition opened with Ferber visiting campus to deliver a lecture, “The Hudson River to Niagara Falls: Landscape Views & Landscape Visions.” F&M alumna Nancy Siegel ’88, associate professor of art history at Towson University, delivered a lecture at Homecoming & Family Weekend titled “Suspend Your Body from the Limbs of the Trees: 19th-Century Women Paint the American Landscape.”
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\nIncluded in the exhibition are works by two of the few women in the Hudson River School, “Pool in the Catskills” by Josephine Walters, the only woman known to have studied with Durand, and “Niagara Falls,” Louisa Davis Minot’s 1818 visual record of her visit to the landmark three years earlier.
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\nA panel discussion, “Looking at Landscapes,” will take place at 2 p.m. Nov. 2 in the Phillips Museum’s Sally Mather Gibson Curriculum Gallery. It will feature three historians talking about specific painters and their works: Clapper on Durand’s “View of the Shandaken Mountains”; Thomas Ryan, president and CEO of LancasterHistory.org, on Jacob Eichholtz’s “Portrait of Serena Mayer Franklin” (a masterpiece in the permanent collection of the Phillips Museum); and Schuyler on Jervis McEntee’s “View in Central Park, N.Y.C,” which relates to Schuyler’s work on Frederick Law Olmsted, co-designer of Central Park.
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Instead, members of the campus community and visitors may fill up at any of the new 22 water filling stations around campus.
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\nF&M’s Office of Facilities & Operations, in coordination with the College’s Sustainability Committee, worked throughout the summer to install the filling stations and implement a number of initiatives that are part of the sustainability plan endorsed last fall by faculty, students, professional staff and College trustees. The plan builds on the institution’s conservation and educational efforts of the past decade and creates a roadmap for environmental stewardship for current and future generations, with goals in areas such as water conservation, solid waste reduction and energy efficiency.
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\n“These initiatives reduce the significant impact that we make on the waste stream, and that cannot be understated,” said Linda Aleci, associate professor of art history and chair of the Sustainability Committee. “We’re working strategically and harnessing our energy for some very targeted initiatives, and the campus should look forward to more.”
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\nAmong the sustainability measures completed during the summer or underway:
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• Bottle reduction: The sale of bottled water at campus dining facilities and in vending machines is discontinued.
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• Water filling stations: Nearly two dozen water filling stations were installed in high-traffic areas such as academic buildings, College Houses, Steinman College Center and Mayser Gymnasium. The filling stations keep a running tally of how many disposable bottles each refill saves.
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• Single-stream recycling: Recyclable plastics, paper, cardboard, aluminum cans and glass may all be placed in the same containers as the campus converts to single-stream recycling. The College has added approximately 50 recycling bins for a total of 270 campuswide.
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• Solar trash compactors: Two BigBelly solar trash compactors have been installed, one near Old Main and the other near the Wohlsen Center for the Sustainable Environment. The units operate entirely on solar power and transmit messages via a wireless network to the facilities department when they are full.
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\r\nNic Auwaerter ’11 (pictured), sustainability coordinator in Facilities & Operations, is analyzing how the College uses resources and implements measures to help the campus conserve water, reduce waste and save energy.
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graduates of the past 10 years tammy halstead f m s director of alumni advising and development said the program is distinctive because it enhances the skills of both the mentor and mentee the mentors most of whom have five years of working experience participate in discussion groups to build their mentorship and leadership skills while the mentees receive guidance as they begin their careers we re excited that this program provides individualized experiences for alumni while helping them develop professionally and bring value to their organizations said halstead who leads the initiative it s really a way to embrace the liberal arts ethos that we can always learn develop and grow halstead matches alumni mentors with mentees based on their answers to questions in an application on the ospgd website go fandm edu ospgd partnerships the mentors and mentees then engage in phone conversations and in person meetings to discuss career and workplace challenges the program launched at a perfect 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\nAs part of efforts to be a leading institution in helping college students from underserved communities succeed academically, Franklin & Marshall College is expanding a faculty-led advising model with support from the Booth Ferris Foundation.
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\r\nRadio has provided a platform for Franklin & Marshall students, faculty and professional staff to showcase their passion for music for more than half a century. WWFM, a small AM station with a weak signal, began broadcasting in 1957 from the basement of Benjamin Franklin Hall. In 1973, the Federal Communications Commission granted the College a license to operate a 10-watt FM station, and the call letters changed to WFNM.
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\nF&M’s William J. Iannicelli ’48 Track, Brooks Tennis Center, Mayser Center equipment room and a multi-purpose athletic field at Race and Harrisburg avenues were enhanced as part of an ongoing effort by the College’s Facilities Committee to maintain the highest standards of safety in buildings and facilities across campus.
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