Conference Venues
On October 24 -25, the conference will take place in the Skylight Gallery, at the Salmagundi Club: 47 Fifth Avenue @ 12th Street | New York, NY 10003. Telephone: (212) 255-7740. See map here.
On the 26th October, the final conference session will take place at the Met Cloisters: 99 Margaret Corbin Drive, Fort Tryon Park, New York, NY 10040. Telephone: (212) 923-3700. See map here.
About the Salmagundi Club
The Salmagundi Club is a not-for-profit organization created in 1871 by artists and patrons, to encourage the advancement of art of all kinds. The Club has continuously championed representational art from its founding, with iconic members including: Thomas Moran (1837-1926), William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933), Emil Carlsen (1848-1932), N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945), Childe Hassam (1859-1935), and Winston Churchill (1874-1965). Today’s more recent and current members are some of the most recognized names within representational art, including: Jacob Collins, Max Ginsburg, Richard Schmid, Daniel E. Greene, Patricia Watwood, David A. Leffel, and many more. In 1917, the organization moved to its permanent home within its historic brownstone mansion located in Greenwich Village, New York, NY. The mansion hosts hundreds of yearly art exhibitions, painting demonstrations, lectures, concerts, and more. The Club’s art collection has been built by generous member donations and its purchase prize awards, amassing over 1,500 works of art which span its entire history. Exhibitions of the permanent collection and current living artists are always free to the general public and non-members year round. For more information about the Salmagundi, please see here. Do please support them beyond our conference.
For further photographs of the interior of the Salmagundi, see here.
About the Met Cloisters
The Cloisters is the only American museum dedicated exclusively to the art and architecture of the Middle Ages. Comprising a collection and gardens within a single complex, it derives its name from the portions of five medieval cloisters incorporated into a modern museum structure, which overlooks the Hudson River in upper Manhattan’s picturesque Fort Tryon Park. Not replicating any one particular medieval building type or setting, but rather designed to evoke the architecture of the later Middle Ages, the Cloisters creates an integrated and harmonious context in which visitors can experience the rich tradition of medieval artistic production, including metalwork, painting, sculpture, and textiles. By definition, a cloister consists of a covered walkway surrounding a large open courtyard that provides access to other monastic buildings. Similarly, the museum’s cloisters act as passageways to galleries; they provide an inviting place for rest and contemplation for visitors, as they often did in their original monastic settings.
For further information about the Cloisters, see here.
Images: The Skylight Gallery, the Salmagundi Club, © Salmagundi Club, and the Cloisters, © Metropolitan Museum of Art