In celebration of the launch of The Art of Edward Lange interactive website, view a select number of original artworks in Preservation Long Island’s collection by Edward Lange (1846–1912), who painted homesteads, local businesses, railroad depots, and harbor front in precise detail during the 1870s and 80s.
Date: Thursday, June 14, 2018
Time: 5:00 PM
Free (Please Register Online via Eventbrite)
Location: 161 Main Street, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Our new exhibition, Howard Sherwood: Preserving Long Island, honors the legacy of Preservation Long Island’s founder.
In 1976, SPLIA curator, Dean Failey, mounted the first exhibition to explore Long Island’s rich decorative arts heritage. More than forty years later, its groundbreaking discoveries continue to inspire and inform. Collecting Long Island follows the continued efforts of collectors to expand our knowledge of Long Island’s complex material past.
#MyLongIslandLandmarks was inspired by an Instagram hashtag. What resulted was a wonderful assemblage of well-known historic “landmarks” as well as Long Island places that, on the surface, may seem ordinary but become meaningful once their stories are known.
This exhibition explored how the art of cartography was used during the 19th and 20th centuries to define the geography of Long Island as a place for investment, industry and commerce, home-building, and ultimately, substantial growth and profit.
Dedicated to the late Huyler Held, a Preservation Long Island past president, this exhibition featured many of our most significant acquisitions, ranging from eighteenth-century masterworks of Long Island decorative arts to 20th-century ephemera.