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05/04/2017 06:00 PM
ISAW Lecture Hall
AIA Lecture: Hidden in Plain Sight
Three Attic Vases from the Century Association in New York
Jennifer Udell
At the end of the 19th century Thomas B. Clarke donated four ancient Greek vases to the venerable Century Association, a private club founded by members of the Hudson River School. This talk serves as a public debut for three of the vases —one black-figure and two red-figure—which have been all but lost to the scholarly and academic community since they entered the club's collection in 1891. I address briefly the phenomenon of private New York social clubs and their impressive art collections before turning to the iconography and the style of the vases themselves.