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 18^th, 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.