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Suzanne Hinman Clark Book Talk: "The Grandest Madison Square Garden"

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Suzanne Hinman Clark Book Talk: “The Grandest Madison Square Garden”

September 17, 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm EDT

Free
The cover of a book that reads "The Grandest Madison Square"

When completed in 1890, the (second) Madison Square Garden complex on the northeast corner of Manhattan’s Madison Square featured the tallest tower in the country, from its base to the 18-foot sculpture of a nude Diana. In The Grandest Madison Square Garden: Art, Scandal, and Architecture in Gilded Age New York, art historian Suzanne Hinman examines the lives and achievements of the two creative minds behind the building, architect Stanford White and sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, as a gateway to explore the art, architecture, and popular entertainment of Gilded Age New York City. For her illustrated talk, Hinman will focus on White’s struggle to get the building constructed, its initial reception, and eventual destruction in 1925 to make way for the New York Life Building skyscraper.

Suzanne Hinman is an independent scholar and former curator, gallerist, professor, and museum director at the Savannah College of Art and Design. While serving as associate director of the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, she developed her interest in the artists and architects of the American Gilded Age and the famed Cornish Art Colony. The Grandest Madison Square Garden is her first book.

Reservations are required, and priority is given to Members and Corporate Member firms and their employees.
All guests MUST RSVP to programs@skyscraper.org to assure admittance to the event.

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Date:
September 17, 2019
Time:
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm EDT
Cost:
Free
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Website:
https://www.skyscraper.org/PROGRAMS/upcoming_programs.htm

Venue

The Skyscraper Museum
39 Battery Place
New York, NY 10280 United States
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2129456324
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