Artists in Permanent Residence:Selections from the Historic Fund Collection
Sunday, September 19th,
8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, September 19th,
8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Green-Wood Cemetery, since its founding in 1838, has attracted many artists. They have come to tour its grounds, to appreciate its picturesque and romantic landscape. In large numbers, they have chosen to be interred in its earth. For the last decade, we have been collecting items pertaining to Green-Wood and those who have chosen it as their final resting place: photographic portraits, a soda fountain, post cards, books, Coney Island menus and rides, and much more. These items have supplemented historic records and maps already in our archives.Source: http://www.green-wood.com/store.php/store/category/2/event/52
Five years ago, Richard J. Moylan, Green-Wood’s president, began collecting, on behalf of our Historic Fund, art created by painters who are interred here. Since then, research by our Artists Project has revealed more than 300 artists who lie in Green-Wood’s earth, ranging from Asher B. Durand (1796–1886), leader of the Hudson River School (America’s first group of painters), to Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988), an Andy Warhol protégé.
We will display just a few paintings and prints from what has grown into a substantial and unique collection, one which helps us to tell the story of Green-Wood Cemetery and its permanent residents. Soon, we hope, we will be able to devote a space here to permanent displays from our ever-growing, and endlessly fascinating, collection.
This collection makes its premiere at the Third Annual Gala Benefit on Thursday, September 16.
The event is free and open to the public.
Location: The Historic Chapel @ Green-Wood