Shaker Culture is the theme of this lecture series jointly sponsored by the Columbia County Historical Society and
Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon (shakerml.org) as part of our shared Winter/Spring 2018 programming
Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon (shakerml.org) as part of our shared Winter/Spring 2018 programming
Lecture One:
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"...original watercolors...give us an extraordinary glimpse at the colors of the Mount Lebanon Shaker village 162 years ago." Following his visit to the Mount Lebanon Shaker village in August, 1856, the New York newspaper artist Benson Lossing made watercolor drawings to guide production of the wood engravings illustrating his article published in 'Harper’s New Monthly Magazine' about daily life in a Shaker community.
While the illustrations for Lossing’s Shaker article were printed in black and white, his original watercolors have survived, and give us an extraordinary glimpse at the colors of the Mount Lebanon Shaker village 162 years ago. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Rob Emlen recently retired as University Curator and Senior Lecturer in American Studies at Brown University. He is at work on a book about how the Shakers were pictured in the popular illustrated press of 19th century America, a complement to his book, "Shaker Village Views", outlining the ways Shaker artists pictured their own communities during the 19th century. |
