Promoting Long Island: The Art of Edward Lange, 1870–1889

Preservation Long Island Exhibition Gallery
August 16 to December 1, 2024 

Step into the late nineteenth-century world of Edward Lange (1846–1912) and follow his journey as an immigrant artist encountering a Long Island rapidly changing around him. This was an era of transformation, when the LIRR’s steam engines traveled along the fringes of bucolic hay fields and new industrial smokestacks took their place alongside old windmills. His artwork circulated within Long Island and beyond, drawing in tourists seeking recreational fun in towns along the North and South Shores. Armed with pen and brush, Lange painted the picture of a place that has endured in popular memory to this day. This exhibition of watercolors, photographs, and historical objects on loan from collections across Long Island accompanies the release of Preservation Long Island’s latest publication of the same name, which presents over two years of new research into Edward Lange’s life and work.

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Thank you to all the lenders to the exhibition: Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History; Greenlawn-Centerport Historical Association; Heckscher Museum of Art; Huntington Historical Society; Incorporated Village of Northport; The Long Island Museum; Nassau County Department of Parks, Recreation, & Museums; Oyster Bay Historical Society; Raynham Hall Museum, Smithtown Historical Society; Veronica Mollica; Whaling Museum & Education Center of Cold Spring Harbor.  
Image credit: Edward Lange (1846-1912). Residence of William Neale, Cold Spring Harbor, L.I., 1881. Watercolor and gouache on paper, 17.625 x 24.125 in. (unframed). Preservation Long Island purchase, 2022.2

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