WE'RE CELEBRATING OUR 5TH ANNIVERSARY

Exhibition Opening in Greenwich

Please join us on Tuesday, April 1, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., at the Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich’s Bush-Holley Historic Site for the opening reception of Harbor to Haven: Connecticut Scenes and Artist Printmakers from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams.  HRJ is a media sponsor for this event as part of its 5th anniversary celebration.  From Harbor to Haven features more than sixty 19th- and 20th-century prints of Connecticut scenes or by a artists actively working and living in our state.  Included are works by John Henry Twachtman, Childe Hassam, Kerr Eby, and many others.  Reba and Dave Williams began collecting American prints in the early 1970s, and their collection now numbers more than 5,000 works.  Admission to the opening is free.

From Harbor to Haven is on view at the Bush-Holley Historic Site, The Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich, 39 Strickland Road, Cos Cob.  The exhibition will be on view through August 17, 2008.  For more information call (203) 869-6899 or visit www.hstg.org. 

 

Lecture in Litchfield
Friday, May 9, 5:30 p.M.

Free, please mention that you are a Hog River Journal subscriber

Please join us on Friday, May 9, at 5:30 p.m. for a lecture by furniture expert Tom Kugelman on “Collecting Today.”  This is the inaugural lecture in a four-part series relating to Litchfield Historical Society’s new exhibition To Please Any Taste: Litchfield County Furniture and Furniture Makers, 1780-1830 and is sponsored in part by HRJ in celebration of its 5th anniversary.  Between 1780 and 1830 Litchfield County experienced a surge in industry, agriculture, and regional and international trade.  The citizens of this region expected their homes, clothing, and furnishings to reflect their newfound success.  Furniture makers responded, creating pieces that both reflected the desires of the client and the regional aesthetics of the craftsman; in the process, they created a unique regional style of furniture. The exhibition will include more than 30 examples of Litchfield County furniture from the Litchfield Historical Society’s collection, the Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut Historical Society Museum, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Hartford Steam Boiler Insurance Co., and many other institutions and private lenders. 

The lecture series will be held May 9 at St. Michael’s Church Hall, two doors down from the museum, with a reception at the museum after the lecture.  To Please Any Taste: Litchfield County Furniture and Furniture Makers, 1780-1830 will be on view April 19 to November 23, 2008.  For more information call (860) 567-4501 or visit www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org.

 

 
 

 

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