2007 Season Exhibit: Image & Identity: One Hundred Years of Schuyler
Family Portraits 

Opens at Schuyler Mansion State Historic Site

 

Beginning April, Schuyler Mansion State Historic Site will unveil its
2007 exhibition, Image and Identity: 100 Years of Schuyler Family
Portraits.  The exhibition tells the story of the Schuyler legacy
through paintings, objects, and the historic mansion itself.  The
exhibition unveiling marks the beginning of the site's season.

 

Visitors will have the opportunity to view a rare collection of 19
Schuyler family portraits exhibited throughout the mansion, learn about
how the Schuylers presented themselves in commissioned art, and think
about how people express their identity today.  Guided tours and "Guide
By Cell" (self-guided) cellular phone tours will be available through
the term of the exhibit, which ends October 28.

 

The first of the season's exhibit lecture series will be held on
Thursday, June 28, 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. Kathleen Eagen Johnson, curator of
Historic Hudson Valley, will discuss the colonial and early national
portraits in the collection of Historic Hudson Valley, a network of
historic sites in Sleepy Hollow Country. An opportunity to view the
exhibit will available before and after the lecture.

 

Schuyler Mansion, located at 32 Catherine Street in Albany's historic
South End, was the eighteenth-century home of Revolutionary War general
Philip Schuyler (1733-1804) and his family.  Beginning April 18th, the
site will be open Wednesday through Sunday from 11:00 to 5:00. Guided
tours are available on the hour; schedule for cellular phone tours only
is every Thursday and Sunday, 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. For further
information about this or other site events, please call the Schuyler
Mansion State Historic Site at (518) 434-0834.