Sunday Salon Lectures
The Sunday Salon series presents talks with leading thinkers on America’s cultural landscape.
All Sunday Salons are followed by audience discussions. Visit our events page for upcoming talks.
If you enjoy these programs, please consider making a gift to support the annual Sunday Salons at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site.
2024 Cole Fellows’ Research Presentations
Catherine Augustyn, Michaela Ellison-Davidson and Ryan Munasinghe, April 2024
At the Confluence of History and Myth: Truman Lowe’s Ethereal Elegance
Patricia Marroquin Norby (Purépecha), February 2024
Thomas Cole’s “The Clove, Catskills”: A “Native” Past for a Sustainable Future
Michael Quituisaca, January 2024
Indians in the Landscape: Painting Over Indigenous Sovereignty in the 19th Century
Dr. Scott Manning Stevens, March 2022
Object Lessons: Selections from the Thomas Cole Collection
Pippa Biddle and Benjamin Davidson, February 2022
A Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco
Marc Swanson, Denise Markonish, & Kate Menconeri, January 2022
The 2026 Sunday Salon Lectures are part of the 2026 initiative Thomas Cole: Painting the Nature of America in celebration of America 250.
Thomas Cole: Painting the Nature of America at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site is supported by The National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Made possible in part by Hickory Foundation; With public funds from the Greene County Legislature through the Greene County Cultural Fund, administered in Greene County by CREATE Council on the Arts; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; Jennifer Krieger and Eric Siegel; National Trust Insurance, LLC; Art Bridges; Maurice D. Hinchey Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area; The Tryon Family Foundation; Anne and Fred Osborn III / The EASTER Foundation; Bank of Greene County Charitable Fund; Columbia Memorial Health; BST & Co. CPAs, LLP; and Eli Wilner & Company.
The Thomas Cole National Historic Site dedicates the 2021 Sunday Salons lecture series to the memory of David Grey. 2021 support provided in part by a Humanities New York Action Grant with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, Empire State Development’s I LOVE NEW YORK program under the Market NY initiative, and the Kindred Spirits Society of the Thomas Cole National Historic Site.
2020
2019 Sunday Salons are supported by Humanities New York Action Grant with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Empire State Development’s I LOVE NY PROGRAM under the Market NY initiative, David and Laura Grey, Caldwell Gallery Hudson, Katherine and Eric Baumgartner, and Jim Lewis and Dianne Young. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The 2018 Sunday Salons were sponsored by David & Laura Grey and James & Dianne Lewis. The 2017 Sunday Salons were sponsored by David & Laura Grey.
Support for programs at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
