2/13/10–2/21/10 Free Admission this Week: The New-York Historical Society

Saturday, February 13 through Sunday, February 21, 2010

The New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West between 76th & 77th Street
New York City

(212) 873-3400
Subway: B or C to 81st Street
Bus: M10 to 77th Street; M79 to 81st Street and Central Park West

Hours:

Tuesday–Thursday: 10:00am–6:00pm
Friday: 10:00am–8:00pm
Saturday: 10:00am–6:00pm
Sunday: 11:00am–5:45pm
Monday: CLOSED (usually closed, but it will be open on 2/15/10!)

Cost: Free

For all ages

The Society’s museum galleries will be open from 10am-6pm on Monday, February 15. From Saturday, February 13 through Sunday, February 21 admission is free for all visitors. Free admission is made possible by a generous grant from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust.

Current Exhibits

* Lincoln and New York (until 3/25/10)
* John Brown: The Abolitionist and his Legacy (until 3/25/10)
* Nature and the American Vision: The Hudson River School at the New-York Historical Society (2009) (until 3/25/10)
* New York Painting Begins: Eighteenth-Century Portraits (until 3/25/10)

Free Daily Docent Tours
Tuesday-Friday
1:00pm: Lincoln and New York

2:00pm: Highlights from the Permanent Collection
3:00pm: Lincoln and New York

Saturday & Sunday
12:00pm: Lincoln and New York
2:00pm: Highlights from the Permanent Collection
1:00–3:00pm: Docent explainers are available inside the Lincoln exhibition to answer your questions

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If you are unable to visit the museum, check out NYHS’s extensive online museum catalog, featuring images and information about their collection of more than 60,000 artifacts and works of art (printed collections, graphic collections, manuscript collections).
http://emuseum.nyhistory.org/code/emuseum.asp 

Their digital collections are also interesting.

https://www.nyhistory.org/web/default.php?section=library&page=digital_collections 

Just a sample of some collections available for viewing:

http://emuseum.nyhistory.org/code/emuseum.asp?style=Browse&currentrecord=1&newvalues=1&newpage=collections 

		Audubon’s Watercolors for The Birds of America In 1863 Lucy Bakewell Audubon, the widow of John James Audubon, sold to The New-York Historical Society her husband’s preparatory watercolors for his seminal work The Birds of America (published serially in London between 1827 and 1838). The Society owns all 435 known preparatory watercolors for its 435 plates. In addition, the N-YHS holds a rare, double-elephant edition of The Birds of America, as well as the octavo edition and Audubon's Ornithological Biography, letters, ephemera, etc. In aggregate, these collections in the museum and library form the largest single repository of Auduboniana in the world.
		Bella C. Landauer Collection of Business and Advertsing Ephemera Bella C. Landauer (1874-1960) was an insatiable collector of objects made for business and advertising purposes. In 1926, she gave a large portion of her collection to the New-York Historical Society. These collections - more than 375,000 pieces of ephemera and 4,500 three-dimensional objects - are an essential resource for scholars of American history.
		Collection Highlights Highlights from the New-York Historical Society Museum
		Dutch New York
		Hudson River School The N-YHS holds one of the oldest and most comprehensive collections of landscape painting by artists of the Hudson River School, the first school of truly American art to garner worldwide recognition and fame. Artists, poets and writers forged the first self-consciously “American” landscape vision and literary voice, grounded in the exploration of the natural world as a source of spiritual renewal and as an expression of national identity, first expressed through the scenery of the Hudson River Valley.
		The Dr. Egon Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass The New-York Historical Society's entire collection of 132 Tiffany lamps and three windows came as the gift of a single collector, Dr. Egon Neustadt, in 1984. Dr. Neustadt, an Austrian immigrant, New York City orthodontist, and successful real estate developer, began collecting Tiffany lamps in 1935, when he and his wife Hildegard purchased their first lamp in a Greenwich Village antique shop. Over the course of five decades, Dr. Neustadt amassed one of the most important and most comprehensive Tiffany collections in the world.
		The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman The avant-garde sculptor Elie Nadelman (1882-1946) is widely recognized for his elegant and spare modernist sculpture. Less well-known is Nadelman's role as a pioneer in collecting folk art in this country and his impressive material legacy acquired by the Historical Society in 1937. Nadelman's acquisitions spanned a variety of media, including furniture, sculpture, paintings, ceramics, glass, iron, pewter, drawings and watercolors, and household tools. The N-YHS holds more than 1,600 objects collected by Nadelman, more than any other single repository.
		Underground Railroad Please also see the Underground Railroad Research Guide available in the Library section of the N-YHS website: https://www.nyhistory.org/web/default.php?section=library&page=research_guides