New York Market for French Art in the Gilded Age

On Sunday, February 12 at 3 PM, the Alliance Française de Hartford, located at 75 Charter Oak Street in Hartford, will host a book talk on “New York Market for Art in the Gilded Age, 1867-1893.”

This presentation will be in English.

CCSU Professor Leanne Zalewsky offers us a book talk about how French art developed in the New York market from 1867-1893. During the Gilded Age, money, power, art, and philanthropy led to the first major art market rush in the United States and helped New York City become a cultural powerhouse.

This transatlantic study reveals the first art market bubble in the United States. In the decades following the Civil War, French art monopolized art collections and the “Gilded Age picture rush” was born.

Dr. Zalewski, Associate Professor of Art History at Central Connecticut State University, has published
and presented numerous papers on Gilded Age art collecting, including the College Art Association
conference in New York, Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London, and Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. She received support for her research from the Getty Research Institute, Huntington Library, and the Center for the History of Collecting at the Frick Collection.

All current students and gold members are free.  Please let us know if you are planning to attend.

Refreshments will be served.