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. The 2021 season will be announced in January.

If you enjoy these programs, please consider making a gift to support the annual Sunday Salons at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site.

Thomas Cole in Haudenosaunee Country

Elizabeth W. Hutchinson, February 2020

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Martin Johnson Heade’s Marshes: Reclamation and Anti-landscape

Maggie M. Cao, January 2020

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Directionality in the Art of Thomas Cole: An Ecocritical Perspective

Alan Braddock, March 2019

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Evolving Visions and Voices in The Met’s American Wing

Sylvia Yount, February 2019

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Idyllic and Industrial Visions: Thomas Cole, William Guy Wall and the Hudson River

Sophie Lynford, April 2018

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Frederic Church in Thomas Cole’s Catskills

Jennifer Raab, February 2018

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In the Footsteps of Thomas Cole

Shannon Vittoria, February 2018

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Thomas Cole on Paper

Nicholas Robbins, January 2018

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“A Painter’s Paradise”: Thomas Cole In Florence

John F. McGuigan, Jr., April 2017

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Buried Treasure: Thomas Cole’s Decoration Of Cedar Grove

Jean Dunbar & Matthew Mosca, March 2017

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The Influence Of The Dutch Golden Age On The Hudson River School

Lloyd DeWitt, February 2017

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Reinventing Thomas Cole’s Home

Elizabeth B. Jacks & Alan Wallach, January 2017

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Contemporary Artist

Stephen Hannock, April 2015

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Contemporary Artist

Thomas Nozkowski, February 2015

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Contemporary Art in House Museums

Franklin Vagnone, January 2015

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The 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 Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.