The 2023 Scholars’ Dinner
Monday, April 3, 2023
The Century Association
7 West 43rd Street, New York, New York 10036
Inquiries email jgreim@thomascole.org
The sponsor deadline to be listed on the invitation is Monday, February, 6.
The fourth annual Scholars’ Dinner features the leading American art scholars of today and the emerging American art scholars of tomorrow
All proceeds from the event underwrite the annual Cole Fellowship at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site
Continuing the important work that Thomas Cole began as a mentor and leader, the Thomas Cole National Historic Site serves as a catalyst for advancing the conversation in American art.
Featured Scholars
The featured scholars will be Linda Ferber, Director Emerita of the New-York Historical Society; Nancy Siegel, Professor of Art History at Towson University and co-curator of our 2023 special exhibition Women Reframe American Landscape; Sophie Lynford, the Annette Woolard-Provine Curator of the Bancroft Collection at the Delaware Art Museum; and our 2023 Class of Cole Fellows.
Linda Ferber
Director Emerita
New-York Historical Society
Nancy Siegel
Professor of Art History
Towson University
Sophie Lynford
Annette Woolard-Provine Curator of the Bancroft Collection
Delaware Art Museum
2023 Class of Cole Fellows
Vicente Cayuela, Sofia Thieu D’Amico, Kristen Marchetti and Beth Wynne
Board of Trustees
Lisa Fox Martin, Chairman
Marianne Lockwood, Vice Chairman
Warner Shook, Vice Chairman
Sara de Swardt, Treasurer
Susan Ball, Secretary
Jimmy Bulich
Carrie Feder
Linda Gentalen
Guy Griggs
Elizabeth B.Jacks
Nina Matis
Anne J. Miller
Stephen Shadley
Tara Sullivan
Hudson Talbott
Evelyn Trebilcock
Susan G. A. Warner
National Council
Kevin J. Avery
Tim Barringer
Annette Blaugrund
Linda S. Ferber
Ella M. Foshay
Eleanor Jones Harvey
Patricia Junker
Elizabeth Kornhauser
Katherine Manthorne
Mark D. Mitchell
Barbara Novak
Paul D. Schweizer
Nancy Siegel
Kiki Smith
John R. Stilgoe
Alan Wallach
The Scholars’ Dinner
Asher Brown Durand, Portrait of Thomas Cole, 1837, Berkshire Museum
Thomas Cole, Catskill Creek, New York, 1845. Oil on canvas, 26 1/2 by 36 in. / Framed: 37 5/8 x 47 5/8 x 4 1/2 in. New-York Historical Society, The Robert L. Stuart Collection, Gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart, S-157.
Thomas Cole, Clouds, ca. 1830s. Oil on paper laid down on canvas, 8 3/4 x 10 7/8 in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Morris K. Jesup Fund, 2013 (2013.201).
Photography by Adam T. Deen