Thursday Evening Event: August 21
August 21 @ 7:15 pm - 8:30 pm
We’ll enjoy refreshments and hors d’oeuvres — and took a look back in time at boats and boating. Guest speaker, historian Hallie Bond presents “The Art of the Boat: Winslow Homer at the North Woods Club. This seated event will take place inside the boatshop.
Perhaps Winslow Homer’s The Blue Boat, owned by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is one of his best-known Adirondack paintings. But just as he painted ordinary people—barefoot schoolboys playing crack the whip, the fisherwomen at Cullercoats—Homer painted ordinary boats. He painted most of his Adirondack scenes at what became the North Woods Club near Minerva, and they are valuable documents about those workaday boats as well as about the aristocratic guideboats. In this presentation we will learn from these paintings, as well as considering Homer’s degree of artistic license.
Hallie Bond was the curator of the boat collection at the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake for 27 years. She is the author of Boats and Boating in the Adirondacks (Syracuse University Press, 1995) and was the curator of the present boat exhibit at the museum.
Doors open 6:30pm, program starts at 7:15pm.
Free, but space is limited and reservations are requested.
Please send an email to register.