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Exhibitions at the New-York Historical Society are made possible by Dr. Agnes Hsu-Tang and Oscar Tang, the Saunders Trust for American History, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

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John Brown: The Abolitionist and his Legacy

September 15, 2009 - March 25, 2010

Planned by the Gilder Lehrman Institute in collaboration with the New-York Historical Society. October 16, 2009 marks the 150th anniversary of John Brown's doomed raid on the...

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New York Painting Begins: Eighteenth-Century Portraits

September 15, 2009 - March 25, 2010

The New-York Historical Society holds one of the nation’s premiere collections of 18th-century American portraits. During this formative century a small group of native-born...

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Nature and the American Vision: The Hudson River School at the New-York Historical Society (September 2009)

September 15, 2009 - March 25, 2010

The New-York Historical Society continues to showcase together more than 100 famous paintings by artists of the Hudson River School, including Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand,...

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Dutch New York Between East and West: The World of Margrieta van Varick (Bard Graduate Center)

September 18, 2009 - January 24, 2010

Timed to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's sail into the New York bay, The World of Margrieta van Varick explores the life and times of a...

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Lincoln’s and Other Sparrows for The Birds of America

May 13, 2009 - December 03, 2009

The New-York Historical Society, which holds all 435 dazzling preparatory watercolors for John James Audubon's The Birds of America (1827-38), continues to showcase a...

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Luman Reed’s European Paintings

May 09, 2009 - November 01, 2009

Luman Reed (1785-1836) is best known for his pioneering patronage of the American painters Asher B. Durand, Thomas Cole, William Sidney Mount and George Whiting Flagg. However...

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Hudson River Birds: In Celebration of the Quadricentennial of Henry Hudson’s Voyage

July 13, 2009 - October 11, 2009

The New-York Historical Society, which holds all 435 dazzling preparatory watercolors for John James Audubon’s The Birds of America (1827-38), continues to showcase a...

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Nature and the American Vision: The Hudson River School at the New-York Historical Society (April 2009)

April 17, 2009 - July 12, 2009

The New-York Historical Society continues to showcase together more than 100 famous paintings by artists of the Hudson River School, including Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand,...

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Harlem: Photographs of Camilo José Vergara, 1970–2009

April 30, 2009 - July 12, 2009

Spanning nearly four decades of physical and social transformation in a neighborhood that is fabled around the world, the exhibition Harlem 1970–2009: Photographs by...

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Abraham Lincoln in His Own Words

February 12, 2009 - July 12, 2009

A draft of the epoch-making “House Divided” speech, stirring notes for an address against slavery, a telegram encouraging General Ulysses S. Grant at a turning point in the...