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The Art, Architecture, and Literature of the Gilded Age Thursday, October 15, 2009 Continental Breakfast and Registration Welcome Session I: Keynote Address Session II: Paintings and Portraits Wealth on the Wall: The Gilded Age Portrait and Conspicuous Consumption Evocative Geometries: Winslow Homer's "Blackboard" Lesson as Ironic Allegory Eliza Greatorex & Visual Preservation in the Age of Promise (1863-1883) Lunch Please note: Afternoon sessions III and IV run concurrently. Structures of Belief: Architectural Patronage and the Politics of Church Design All the Past is Ours: Richard Morris Hunt, George W. Vanderbilt and All Souls' Church in Biltmore Village, Asheville, North Carolina Thomas Fortune Ryan and Patronage of the Roman Catholic Church during the American Renaissance Session IV: Spaces of Literature, Criticism, and Reading Inventing the Discipline: The Incorporation of Architecture Criticism Reading Rooms: The Architecture of the New York Public Library His First Glimpse of ‘Paradise’: Gilded-Age Minnesota Through the Eyes of F. Scott Fitzgerald Tour 1: Gilded Age Books and Ephemera: Preserving Newport’s Literary Artifacts Gallery Opening During the Gilded Age, architects like Richard Morris Hunt, Charles Eamer Kemp, and Dudley Newton “rescued” interior decorations from French Renaissance chateaux and Elizabethan manor houses for inclusion in contemporary, American structures. Salve Regina University’s impressive collection of Gilded Age mansions contain many important examples of this trend, including original Gothic- and Renaissance-era stained glass, sculpture, and paintings. This exhibition highlights artifacts from Salve’s mansions to explore the history of architectural salvage during the Gilded Age. Friday, October 16, 2009 Continental Breakfast and Registration Session V: Landscape, Architecture, and Patronage The House that Huntington Built: An Expression of Cultural Aims in the Gilded Age Olmsted's Orchard: Designing 'a suitable connection between the flower and vegetable gardens’ “What's Doing in Society”: Glimpses of James J. Van Alen's Wakehurst, Newport, RI Tour 2: The Other Summer Colony: Newport’s Forgotten 19th-Century Intellectuals Lunch Please note: Afternoon sessions VI and VII run concurrently. Session Vi: Gilded Age Collecting William H. Vanderbilt's Model Collection An Authentic Collector: Alfred E. Pope and the Hill-Stead Museum Catharine Lorillard Wolfe (1828-1887): A Gilded Age Collector in the Empire City Rediscovering the Gilded Age Collection of John Jacob Astor III Session VII: Women Artists and Patrons "Lovely Transatlantic Invaders": American Women of the Gilded Age in London American Culture on Display: The Rise and Fall of Exposition Woman's Buildings in the Gilded Age Making a Home of Her Own: Newport’s Architectural Patronesses, 1850-1940 Tour 3: Cottages in Newport’s Hidden Enclaves: The Architecture of William Ralph Emerson Dinner on your own. Saturday, October 17, 2009 Continental Breakfast Session VIII: Interior Décor, Decoration, and Decorative Objects The Seventh Regiment Armory: Exquisite Interiors for a Gilded Age Cultural Fusion: An Architectural Analysis of Stanford White's Dining Room at Kingscote "I give and bequeath...a souvenir of myself:” Conceptions of Brotherhood and Patronage in Gilded Age Silver Wallpapers of a Different Stripe: Edith Wharton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Gilded Age Disparity Session IX: Prints, Magazines, and Mass Media St. Nicholas Magazine: A Portable Art Museum Old Master Prints and Decoration in Gilded Age Interiors Optional Tour 1: A Sense of Henry James and Edith Wharton in Newport This optional tour will feature the homes of Henry James and Edith Wharton and the places they frequented during their years in Newport. Sites visited will include The Cliff Walk, The Redwood Library, the Viking Hotel, The Newport Casino, Washington Square, Ocean Drive, and Wakehurst, on the campus of Salve Regina University. Joan Bartram, Collection Development Librarian at Salve Regina University, and Sarah Littlefield, Professor of English at Salve Regina University, will lead this exciting tour of Newport’s literary haunts. Participants will receive a picnic lunch (weather permitting) as part of the tour and transportation to and from the sites. Please plan to wear comfortable shoes and all weather clothing. Optional Tour 2: Newport's Own Architects - Newton, Johnston and the Masons This optional tour will examine key buildings by each of four of Newport’s important, prolific, but little studied architects: Dudley Newton, J.D. Johnston, George Champlin Mason, Sr., and George Champlin Mason, Jr. Through on-site analysis, participants will learn how these architects changed the streetscapes of Newport from the late 1860's to the early 20th century, as well as how their careers reflected changes in the profession during the late 19th century. Ronald J. Onorato, Honors Professor of Art History at the University of Rhode Island, will lead this fascinating architectural history tour. Participants will receive lunch and transportation to and from the sites as part of the tour. Please plan to wear comfortable shoes and all weather clothing. Salve Regina University would like to thank: |
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