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Spring Lecture Series – The Art of William Sidney Mount: LI People of Color on Canvas
March 25 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
FreeMarch 25th –The Art of William Sidney Mount: Long Island People of Color on Canvas
Discover a lost world of farmers cutting hay with scythes and dancing to fiddle music on barn floors through the Long Island paintings of William Sidney Mount. Explore vivid depictions of people of color, presented with great humanity when racist caricatures were the norm. Presented by historian and author Vivian Nicholson-Mueller.
Ms. Nicholson-Mueller is a Montessori teacher, genealogist, and historian who has done extensive research on the lives of Black, Mixed-Race, Native, and White people of pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial Long Island. Ms. Nicholson-Mueller is an active member of the Three Village Historical Society, The NY Historical Society, and the African American Historical and Geological Society; she co-authored The Art of William Sidney Mount, wrote “Color on Canvas-Racial Diversity in the Art of William Sidney Mount (1807-1868) for the American History Museum; spearheaded a successful campaign to assign Stony Brook’s Old Bethel Cemetery to the NYS and National Registers of Historic Places; and has spent more than ten years reading, studying, and transcribing the Colonial era journals of Dr. Samuel Thompson.
All lectures are free and open to the public. Lectures start promptly at 7PM at the Frank Brush Barn (located at 211 East Main Street, Smithtown).
Donations suggested. Light Refreshments will be served.
Mark your calendars for these other presentations in our 2024 Spring Lecture Series:
March 4th – WWII Movies & Movie Stars
March 4th – Long Island’s Role in the American Revolution