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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 I:
'Early American Portraits'  
​Saturday, February 2, 2019
4:30 -6:30 pm
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New York Portraits from the Permanent Collection of CCHS
TICKETS:
Advance Tickets $15
At the Door:
$15 Members (CCHS) 
$ 20 Non-Members
     "Early American Portraits"
An Illustrated Lecture
by Art Historian and appraiser, Gayle Skluzacek

PART ONE OF TWO LECTURES on American Portraits
This lecture will explore Early American portraiture, focusing on the East Coast.

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!


Lecture EARLY-BIRD TICKET
LAST NAME
FIRST NAME




PORTRAITS PART II:
PictureColumbia County Portraits from the CCHS collection
'Columbia County Portraits'
​Saturday, February 9, 2019
4:30 -6:30 pm


TICKETS:
Advance Tickets $15
At the Door:
$15 Members (CCHS) 
$ 20 Non-Members
Lecture EARLY-BIRD TICKET
LAST NAME
FIRST NAME
     "Columbia County Portraits"
by Art Historian and appraiser, Gayle Skluzacek
PART TWO OF TWO LECTURES on American Portraits
This lecture will explore New York 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!
The Columbia County Historical Society is supported in part by the County of Columbia, New York
with the support of Matt Murell, Chairman of the Board at the Columbia County Board of Supervisors.
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Columbia County Historical Society is a 501(c)(3) cultural education organization founded in 1916 and chartered by the NYS Department of Education Board of Regents to collect, preserve, interpret and present the history, heritage and culture of Columbia County, New York, for its residents and visitors. 
Museum Association of New York
CCHS serves residents of all eighteen towns and the City of Hudson. In addition to a research library and permanent collection of more than 15,000 objects, CCHS owns and maintains the Columbia County Historical Society Museum & Library and three additional historic properties: the National Historic Landmark Luykas Van Alen House (1737); James Vanderpoel ‘House of History’ (c.1820); and Ichabod Crane Schoolhouse (c.1850).
The Columbia County  Historical Society
is ​a private 501 (c )(3) nonprofit organization
Chartered by the  Board of Regents
State Education Department, The University of the State of New York

Copyright © 2022,  Columbia County Historical Society
PO Box 311, Five Albany Avenue,  Kinderhook, New York  12106
​ 518 758 9265   |  ops @ cchsny.org
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