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Painting Central Park

Central Park has often been called one of America’s greatest works of art.

The park itself has attracted many major American painters—and some unexpected Europeans—from the time it was created in 1860 through the present. The American artists range from Winslow Homer and Impressionists like William Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam and Maurice Prendergast to most members of the Ashcan School and The Eight to mid-20th Century painters from Milton Avery and Fairfield Porter to Helen Frankenthaler and on to contemporary artists including Christo and Richard Estes. Europeans include George Grosz, Marc Chagall and David Hockney.

In his talk, Roger Pasquier will lead a virtual walking tour through the park, using paintings by the artists to show how its key features were depicted. On the way, he will discuss how the park transformed social and recreational life for New Yorkers and how Central Park’s landscape and buildings attracted artists who recognized that it offered subjects not available anyplace else in America. He will also show some of the parallels between paintings and writings about the park in the fiction of Henry James, Edith Wharton, J.D. Salinger and others.

Roger Pasquier will be signing copies of Painting Central Park following the event.











When: Thu., Nov. 12, 2015 at 12:00 pm
Where: The 92nd Street Y, New York
1395 Lexington Ave.
212-415-5500
Price: $25
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Central Park has often been called one of America’s greatest works of art.

The park itself has attracted many major American painters—and some unexpected Europeans—from the time it was created in 1860 through the present. The American artists range from Winslow Homer and Impressionists like William Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam and Maurice Prendergast to most members of the Ashcan School and The Eight to mid-20th Century painters from Milton Avery and Fairfield Porter to Helen Frankenthaler and on to contemporary artists including Christo and Richard Estes. Europeans include George Grosz, Marc Chagall and David Hockney.

In his talk, Roger Pasquier will lead a virtual walking tour through the park, using paintings by the artists to show how its key features were depicted. On the way, he will discuss how the park transformed social and recreational life for New Yorkers and how Central Park’s landscape and buildings attracted artists who recognized that it offered subjects not available anyplace else in America. He will also show some of the parallels between paintings and writings about the park in the fiction of Henry James, Edith Wharton, J.D. Salinger and others.

Roger Pasquier will be signing copies of Painting Central Park following the event.

Buy tickets/get more info now