Guided Tour of the New-York Historical Society

Thursday, 12 July 2012 | 12 p.m.
170 Central Park West

The New-York Historical Society’s museum is the oldest in New York City and predates the founding of the Metropolitan Museum of Art by nearly seventy years. Its art holdings comprise more than 1.6 million works. Among them are a world-class collection of Hudson River School paintings, including major works by Thomas Cole and Frederic Edwin Church; iconic genre and history paintings including works by William Sidney Mount and Eastman Johnson; a vast range of American portraits, including paintings by Rembrandt Peale and Gilbert Stuart; all 435 of John James Audubon’s extant preparatory watercolors for Birds of America; and an encyclopedic collection of more than 800 works documenting the full range of representational sculpture in America from the colonial period to the present day.

Lunch will be at a nearby restaurant.

Lunch and guided tour: $65

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For more information, contact Michael Trerotola, alumni relations officer, at (212) 636-7663 or trerotola@fordham.edu.