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The 2009 quadricentennial celebrations commemorating the discovery of the Hudson River by Henry Hudson will also spotlight one of our deepest and most enduring national legacies. This book takes needed stock of the remarkable past created by the settlers of New Netherlands.

The moon¿its face, color, and power¿threads through the tapestry of American landscape painting. The moon holds timeless allure for artists and is beloved by viewers of paintings everywhere. The Hudson River Museum has organized The Color of Moon: Lunar Painting in American Art¿the first major museum examination of the moon in American visual arts from the 19th through the 20th century. The exhibition, accompanied by a catalog, appears at the Hudson River Museum and the James A. Michener Art Museum in 2019, and its timely presentation celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Mission when, in 1969, American astronauts stepped onto the surface of the moon The Color of the Moon reveals the longing romanticism for this celestial body in the shimmery silver moonscapes of 19th-century artists¿Thomas Cole, Father of the Hudson River School, Jasper Cropsey, Frederic Church, Albert Bierstadt, Susie M. Barstow, George Inness, Edward Bannister, Ralph Blakelock, Winslow Homer, and Childe Hassam. Scientific inquiry stimulated the thirst for moonlight for the exhibition's 20th-century artists, among them¿George Ault, Arthur Dove, Charles Burchfield, Edward Steichen, Oscar Bleumner, Agnes Pelton, Marguerite Zorach, Norman Rockwell, Joseph Cornell, and Jamie Wyeth, who explore abstractions of a full moon as the perfect orb, while tapping into its spiritual possibilities. Other artists show our race toward space, as we cling to our age-old attraction to the chill, distant moon always in our sky.The Hudson River Museum, Fordham University Press, and the Michener Art Museum are joint publishers of the lavishly-illustrated, 200-page catalog, The Color of the Moon: Lunar Painting in American Art. In engaging essays author Stella Paul maps the colors of the moon; catalog co-editors Bartholomew Bland and Laura Vookles explore Hudson River School and Modernist moonscapes and their cultural resonance; and curators Melissa Martens Yaverbaum and Ted Barrow sight the moon's passage and allure in art of the Gilded and Space Ages.The exhibition and catalog have been made possible by a generous grant by the Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts, Inc.The Color of the Moon: Lunar Painting in American ArtHudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY | February 8 - May 12, 2019James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA | June 1 - September 8, 2019

The darling of designers, painters, and poets, the peacock, shimmering sapphire blue and emerald green, struts in paintings, sculptures, drawings, and photographs and takes place of honor in homes and churches, in museums and public spaces, as it remains in our memories and associations. The bird, a sometime symbol of morality, of life, or of vainglory, continues, always, to reflect man¿s ever-changing concepts of beauty.

Chronicles - in word and images - the history, development, and character of suburban America, with an account of one of its signature place: Westchester, New York. Designed as a companion to an exhibition at The Hudson River Museum, this book includes photographs, paintings, maps, ephemera, and other images.