Today in 1895 The New York Public Library is formed when the Astor and Lenox Libraries are combined with the Tilden Trust; it is on this anniversary day in 1911 that the Library's grand Beaux-Arts building at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue is dedicated.
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A "Grand Tour" of the Hudson River School at the New-York Historical Society
Mar 11, 2013
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What can today's artists learn from nineteenth century landscape painting? Grand Central Academy of Art founder Jacob Collins and his students can attest "pl...
