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THE VINTAGE NEW YORK TRAVELING EXHIBITION
The tragic events of September 11th, 2001 have given Americans a new appreciation of our country’s traditions and history. Vintage New York was created in 1998 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the joining of New York’s five separate boroughs into one great metropolis, and it chronicles the first hundred years of this great city’s people, events and landmarks. Although created years before the tragedy, it is an attempt to bring to light once again an aspect of nostalgic New York which survives today only in small part, whether in architecture or in spirit. Preserving the memories of a time almost forgotten may well provide a haven from a world that often seems too anxious to rush into uncertain futures.
Vintage New York is available at no charge to museums, arts councils, schools, art galleries, corporations and other organizations that may have a use for it as an educational or cultural resource. It was created by Westchester County, New York's New Rochelle Council on The Arts, and includes etchings of landmarks, streets and people of New York City, replicas of historical engravings from the late 19th and early 20th century tabloids
Harper's Weekly and Frank Leslie's
magazines, and a number of 20th century photos from Look, Life and private collections, all about New York City in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The show was launched with the assistance of
a grant from the Michael and Helen Schaffer Foundation and
was first shown at the
Lumen Winter Gallery of the New Rochelle Public
Library during March and April of 1998. Following the inaugural exhibition, it was at the Hart
Library in Yorktown, NY and with the
Montauk Artists Association in 1999. For six
months in 1999 it resided at Hofstra Museum on Long Island; and parts of it were shown at the Belleclaire Hotel, at Art Expo and at Decor Expo at Javits Center in 2002. In September-October 2002 Vintage New York
was at the Oakeside Bloomfield Cultural Center in Bloomfield, New Jersey; in New York City at Grand Terminal Gallery in June 2003, and at Grace Institute in Manhattan in October & November of 2003.
Over 20 images
of the prints in Vintage New York
can be seen at
NewYorkHistory.info. A full press release of its visit to New Jersey can be read
at
Art In Context Center for Communications. An itemized listing of all the pictures in the exhibition can be referenced by clicking here. A copy of pages from the printed catalog of the entire exhibition, with text of the captions accompanying each of the pictures in the show is available; as are some press clippings from the various locations in which it has been seen, including a full page feature article recently published on the show in the Fall, 2002 edition of The Journal of the Print World.
For more information, for a copy of the catalog, or if your organization would like to borrow Vintage New York,
please email us, contact us by regular mail to the address below, or phone us at the number below. Thank you.
NEW!CLICK HERE TO VISIT OUR NEW EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS
BY THE LATE ARTIST & ILLUSTRATOR
ALTON S. TOBEY (1914 - 2005)
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