![]() ![]() ![]() Walker’s maquette for The Katastwóf Karavan (2017), a public art project created in New Orleans, displays a calliope (steam organ) housed in a horse-drawn wagon, with laser-cut sides that recall cut-paper silhouettes and feature provocative imagery. Coron’s Hi Five! Stories from the Five Boroughs (2019) are hand-cut, eight-foot-long panoramas that capture vignettes from the five boroughs. On view are two of her intricate cut-outs of the Lord’s Prayer, one featuring delicate needlework (1845).Contemporary featured artists-who are expanding the size, subject matter, and media customarily associated with silhouettes-include Béatrice Coron, who captures the dynamic synergy of New York City and Kara Walker, who harnesses the silhouette tradition to investigate the legacy of slavery. Martha Anne Honeywell, a woman born without arms and only three toes, cut profiles for 60 years in America and Europe and managed her successful career. Famous for his fairy tales, he also created imaginative, whimsical compositions like Acrobats (ca. Édouart’s 1846 Philip Milledoler Beekman (1845–1846), which captures a domestic scene of a toddler playing with a jack-in-the-box in a grand drawing room, was created in memory of a child who died when he was just 14 months old.Also on display is work from self-trained artists like Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen, a gifted paper-cutting artist. Olson, In Profile traces the development of this popular art form and explores its contemporary revival through over 150 silhouettes of both famous and everyday people-from a depiction of Alexander Hamilton to full-length silhouettes of the students in a Gramercy Park girls’ school.The exhibition showcases works by professional practitioners, such as master of the genre Augustin Édouart and Charles Willson Peale (who employed, among others, Moses Williams, an enslaved man who earned his freedom and produced silhouettes at the Peale Museum in Philadelphia). ![]() Drawn mostly from New-York Historical’s significant collection by Curator of Drawings Dr. Mourning jewelry may have fallen out of fashion, but this installation showcases how it was once the height of elegance.”In Profile: A Look at Silhouettes The art of silhouettes-usually black cut-paper or painted profiles-emerged as a popular form of portraiture in 19th-century America when there were few trained portrait painters. “The art of silhouettes has long been popular, and this exhibition traces both its history and how gifted, contemporary artists are currently revitalizing the art form. Louise Mirrer, president and CEO of the New-York Historical Society. The special installation Life Cut Short: Hamilton’s Hair and the Art of Mourning Jewelry (Decem– May 10, 2020) displays jewelry featuring human hair that was used as tokens of affection or memorials to lost loved ones.“New-York Historical is taking a deep dive into our expansive collection to explore 19th-century traditions of portraiture and remembrance,” said Dr. The exhibition In Profile: A Look at Silhouettes (January 17 – April 5, 2020) traces the development of the late 18th- and 19th-century art form and how artists are reinventing the silhouette today. 20, 2019 – May 10, 2020 NEW YORK, NY (November 26, 2019) – This winter, the New-York Historical Society presents an exhibition and a special installation that take a fresh look at traditions of remembrance. 17 – ApLife Cut Short: Hamilton’s Hair and the Art of Mourning Jewelry, Dec. VisitExhibitionsProgramsLibraryEducationExploreShop Join & Give New Wing Host an Event Dine Admission TicketsPress Kit NovemNEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY OFFERS NEW PERSPECTIVES ON COMMEMORATIVE TRADITIONS IN TWO WINTER EXHIBITIONSIn Profile: A Look at Silhouettes, Jan. CensusMembershipFAQsJoin & GiveNew WingHost an EventDineAdmission TicketsAdmission TicketsSuggested TermsVirtual ExhibitionsThe Civil WarU.S. New-York Historical Society Offers New Perspectives on Commemorative Traditions in Two Winter Exhibitions | New-York Historical Society Skip to contentVisitExhibitionsProgramsLibraryEducationExploreShopSuggested TermsVirtual ExhibitionsThe Civil WarU.S.
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