Dr. Linda Ferber is Vice President and Senior Art Historian of the New-York Historical Society. She has organized exhibitions, published,
and lectured widely on a variety of topics in American art history including William Trost Richards, the American Pre-Raphaelites, the American Watercolor Movement, The Eight and the Ashcan School, Albert Bierstadt, Asher B. Durand, and the Hudson River School. She was awarded the 2010 Henry Allen Moe Prize for Catalogues of Distinction in the Arts for her recent book, The Hudson River School: Nature and the American Vision the volume which serves as the catalogue for the traveling exhibition about to open at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
She is also co-curator with guest curator Dr. Barbara Gallati of the current exhibition highlighting the NYHS’s rich trove of 19th-century narrative paintings titled: Making American Taste: Narrative Art for a New Democracy. The exhibition will travel. She is also working on another traveling exhibition drawn from NYHS collections titled “The Coast & the Sea: Marine and Maritime Art in America, 1750 to 1900” scheduled to open at the Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach, Florida in January 2014. All three exhibitions are part of the Society’s “Sharing A National Treasure” traveling exhibition program.
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and lectured widely on a variety of topics in American art history including William Trost Richards, the American Pre-Raphaelites, the American Watercolor Movement, The Eight and the Ashcan School, Albert Bierstadt, Asher B. Durand, and the Hudson River School. She was awarded the 2010 Henry Allen Moe Prize for Catalogues of Distinction in the Arts for her recent book, The Hudson River School: Nature and the American Vision the volume which serves as the catalogue for the traveling exhibition about to open at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
She is also co-curator with guest curator Dr. Barbara Gallati of the current exhibition highlighting the NYHS’s rich trove of 19th-century narrative paintings titled: Making American Taste: Narrative Art for a New Democracy. The exhibition will travel. She is also working on another traveling exhibition drawn from NYHS collections titled “The Coast & the Sea: Marine and Maritime Art in America, 1750 to 1900” scheduled to open at the Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach, Florida in January 2014. All three exhibitions are part of the Society’s “Sharing A National Treasure” traveling exhibition program.
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