Zoom Lecture: Why The Hudson River School Matters Today with James McElhinney

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Artist and author James LancelMcElhinney unpacks a roadmap to inspiration through a better understanding of how America’s first art movement celebrated landscape and the environment.

James Lancel McElhinney is a published author and visual artist focused on topics related to travel, history, and art, and the environment. McElhinney is a Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture alumnus with a BFA from Tyler School of Art and an MFA in painting from Yale.

He is the recipient of a Pollock Krasner Grant, and National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist fellowship. Recent solo exhibitions include James McElhinney: Discover the Hudson Anew at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, NY, On the Water: The Schuylkill River, at Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia. PA, and American Nocturnes at Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe.

McElhinney is an Arthur Miller Foundation Artist & Industry Council member, and a Trustee of the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers. Website: www.mcelhinneyart.com,

This is a virtual-only event. A Zoom link for the lecture will be sent to participants upon registration. 

This lecture is part of a larger programming series to celebrate our ongoing exhibition, Scenic Vistas: Landscape as Culture in Early New York, now on view until November 16, 2025. Scenic Vistas is made possible thanks to generous loans from partnering museums and private collections as well as support from: