Early American and Columbia County Portrait Paintings are the theme
​of this Featured Two-Part Winter Lecture Series
sponsored by the Columbia County Historical Society
PORTRAITS PART II:
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  Advance Tickets $15
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  $15 Members (CCHS) 
  $ 20 Non-Members
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     "Columbia County Portraits"
by Art Historian and appraiser, Gayle Skluzacek
PART  TWO  OF  TWO  LECTURES  on American Portraits
This lecture will explore Columbia County portraiture, focusing on paintings from the Permanent Collection of the Columbia County Historical Society.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Ms. Skluzacek is a classically educated art historian and appraiser. After working in curatorial, research, and public relations at the Minneapolis Institute of Fine Arts, the Chicago Art Institute, the Oriental Institute, and the Carnegie Institute, she began appraising in 1981. She has catalogued important collections, estates, and archives, identified lost masterpieces, served as an art/personal property expert in court cases, and has worked closely with major museums in their art acquisition programs.

Ms. Skluzacek served on the Board of Directors of the Appraisers Association of America and served as President, 2000-2002. She was presented with the Director’s Award for her services in 2015.

Since 1995 Ms. Skluzacek has been on the faculty of FIT’s Graduate School, teaching appraisal classes. She has also been on the faculty of NYU since 1992, where she teaches classes on appraising, American Art, connoisseurship, wine, and ethics. She teaches appraisal ethics to auction house experts throughout the country, including Sotheby's, Phillips, Skinner, Doyle, Freeman’s, Bonham's, and Heritage. In 2001 she was invited by the Cuban government to teach a course on appraisal ethics in Havana. Recently she was appointed as fine art expert to a NY committee for the restoration of public murals.

LECTURE LOCATION:
Van Buren Hall, 6 Chatham Street, Kinderhook 12106
 Join us for a glass of wine or other beverage following the lecture
​down the road at the James Vanderpoel 'House of History', 16 Broad Street!