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Symposium "New Discoveries of Thomas Jefferson's Architecture and Design,” March 16-17-2018 February 16 2018

School of Architecture, University of Virginia, Department of Architectural History, 60th anniversary of the Bachelor of Architectural History program.

Held in conjunction with exhibition at the Fralin Art Museum at the University of Virginia titled “From the Grounds Up: Thomas Jefferson Architecture and Design.” exhibition at the Fralin Art Museum at the University of Virginia.

Sponsors: President’s Commission on the Bi-Centennial, the Center Palladian Studies in America, the Fralin Art Museum, and the School of Architecture.

Location: Campbell Hall, School of Architecture, Room 153. Tables with books will be in the lobby.

Registration Fee $10. Per person, register on line at:

http://www.arch.virginia.edu/thomas-jefferson-symposium

Talks will be about 35 minutes followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion

 

Schedule

Friday, March 16

8:30 Registration and coffee outside 153

9:00 Session 1 Chair Richard Guy Wilson, Department of Architectural History

9:15 Talk Niya Bates, Historian, Monticello “Those Who Labor”: Enslaved Craftsmen and the Making of Monticello”

10:00 talk Linda Binsted (Architect, graduate student Architectural History) “Brick Palladian Architecture: Jefferson’s Transformation of Stone to Clay”

10:45 break-coffee available

11:15 Talk Susan Stein Senior Curator & VP for Museum Programs Monticello, “Jefferson Reconsidered: The Evolution of Monticello's Interpretation”

Lunch break 12-1:15 (Lunches are available in café in Campbell Hall, on the Grounds at the University Newcomb Hall, Garden Room, Colonnade Club, and also at the nearby “Corner” A list and maps will be available

1:30 Session 2 Chair, William Sherman, Department of Architectural

Talk Howard Burns, Director International Palladio Study Center, Vicenza

"Memory, books and cutting and pasting the "Bible" in Jefferson's design process." 

2:15 Talk Ann Lucas, Historian, Monticello “Jefferson and the Architecture of “old French Books”

3: 00-3:30 break

3:30-4:15 Talk Will Rieley, Landscape Architect and Historian, “A Regular Irregularity:  A Fresh Look at Jefferson’s Landscape Designs” 

4:15-5:00 Talk James Thompson, Historian, “Jefferson and Freemasonry in France”

5:30-7:00 Reception and viewing exhibit at Fralin Museum

  

Saturday March 17

8:30 Registration and coffee outside 153

9:00 Session 3, Chair Sheila Crane, Department of Architectural History

Talk Calder Loth   Senior Architectural Historian for the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, emeritus, “Architectural Anomalies on the Lawn"    

9:50 Talk Louis Nelson, Professor, Architectural History, UVA “Design and Construction at UVA.”

10:40 break-coffee available

11:10 Talk Joseph Lasala, architectural historian “The Commencement of a Regular Town" 

11:50 Lunch

1:30 Session 4, Chair Andrew Johnston, Chair Historic Preservation

Talk Marie Frank, Kundrun Fellow, International Center for Jefferson Studies “Fiske Kimball and Thomas Jefferson: Why Not Bulfinch?”

2:15 Talk Travis McDonald, Director of Architectural Restoration, and Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest   “Poplar Forest Redivivus: Recovering the Missing Link”

3:00 Conclusion,

Tours of the Exhibition and Lawn will be available.

Meet 3:30 in lobby of Museum, or south side of the Rotunda. 

 

 

Speakers and titles

Niya Bates, Historian, Monticello “Those Who Labor”: Enslaved Craftsmen and the Making of Monticello”

Linda Binsted (Architect, graduate student Architectural History) “Brick Palladian Architecture: Jefferson’s Transformation of Stone to Clay”

Howard Burns, Director International Palladio Study Center

"Memory, books and cutting and pasting the "Bible" in Jefferson's design process."

Marie Frank, Kundrun Fellow, International Center for Jefferson Studies “Fiske Kimball and Thomas Jefferson: Why Not Bulfinch?”

Joseph Lasala, architectural historian “The Commencement of a Regular Town" 

Calder Loth   Senior Architectural Historian for the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, emeritus, “Architectural Anomalies on the Lawn"   

Ann Lucas, Historian, Monticello “Jefferson and the Architecture of “old French Books”

Travis McDonald, Director of Architectural Restoration, Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest   “Poplar Forest Redivivus: Recovering the Missing Link”

Louis Nelson, Professor, Architectural History, UVA “Design and Construction at UVA.”

Will Rieley, Landscape Architect and Historian, “A Regular Irregularity:  A Fresh Look at Jefferson’s Landscape Designs”

Susan Stein Senior Curator & VP for Museum Programs Monticello, “Jefferson Reconsidered: The Evolution of Monticello's Interpretation”

James Thompson, Historian, “Jefferson and Freemasonry in France”


The Life and Art of George M. Harding, Captain in the AEF - Sept. 27th August 09 2017


Wednesday, 9/27/17
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Event Type

Lecture/Panel Discussion
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania
1300 Locust St.
19107 Philadelphia , PA
Pennsylvania

On 27 September, James Thompson, author of Painting America’s Portrait – How Illustrators Created America, will present a program about Philadelphia artist George Matthews Harding. Harding studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Art and with Howard Pyle in Chadds Form and Wilmington before launching his career as an illustrator, which he did in 1904. Among his notable achievements were his selection as one of eight artists to record the operations of the American Expeditionary Force in France in 1918 and his election as a Fellow of the National Academy of Design in 1945. For much of the time between these two events, Harding taught classes at PAFA and created his own art in his Wynnewood studio. Mr. Thompson will trace his life as an artist, but pay special attention to his experiences in France during the final months of the Great War. He will support his comments with a colorful slide show, and examples of the artist’s work taken from his own collection and HSP's collection.


Speaker's Bio:

James Thompson grew up in Wilmington, Delaware where, among other things, he took classes at the Delaware Art Center. He studied Philosophy as an undergraduate and graduate student at the University of Virginia.

In 2015, Jim shifted his focus from American History to the History of American Illustration. The first book in the Painting America’s Portrait set appeared in the fall of 2016. In “How Illustrators Created Their Art”, Jim traced the evolution of illustration art through its Golden Age and explained how the appearance of illustrations changed as image reproduction technologies improved. In the second PAP book, which was released in the spring of 2017, Jim recounted how America’s artist admen and storytellers helped Uncle Sam sell the war “to end all wars”, and how while doing this they “created America”.

Jim lectures on subjects he writes about. He has spoken at the US Naval Academy, the Virginia Historical Society, the DAR Library in Washington, DC, and the Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society Forum in Charlottesville. He has discussed the artistry of artists whose works appear in his Painting America’s Portrait books at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Plastic Club in Philadelphia, the Salmagundi Club and the Society of Illustrators in New York City, the Howard Pyle Studio in Wilmington, and the Norman Rockwell Museum. He has delivered lecture series at the University of Virginia, the College of William & Mary, George Mason University, and the University of Delaware.

Mr. Thompson lives in Richmond, Virginia.

 


Salmagundi Illustrators of WWI July 19 2017

Parlor, November 17, 2017

Friday, 6:30PM

Sponsored by the SCNY Program Committee.

Admission $15 if purchased in advance online, $20 Admission at the door.
Free to SCNY members.
Click HERE to purchase tickets.

Salmagundi artists on the front line of WWI.

Civilian artists in the European trenches during World War I, many who were Salmagundi Club members were solicited by our government to illustrate the war first hand. This presentation by James Thompson, author of  “Painting America’s Portrait”, will discuss these talented artist illustrators and how they “created America” while helping Uncle Sam raise an army and mobilize a nation to “make the world safe for democracy”.

American involvement in WWI officially began as Congress declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917. Two weeks later, George Creel, Chairman of the Committee of Public Information, CPI, solicited SCNY artist Charles Dana Gibson to be the Director of Pictorial Publicity, a division of CPI. In this role, artist Gibson was expected to create a group of illustrators including Howard Giles and George Wright to “sell the war” to the American people.  This is a chapter of American History converging with a chapter of Salmagundi Club SCNY history.  

During the next year these talented artist illustrators created 1,000 propaganda posters that presented the US with imagery of inspirational images of American “can do” spirit. Many of the artist illustrators who worked under the guidance of Gibson made a significant contribution through their art in the way Americans saw themselves and this great country.  

About the Speaker:
Mr. Thompson has appeared on CSpan History Channel in addition to numerous other history-orientated radio and television programs. He has spoken at the Virginia Historical Society, the U.S Naval Academy, Stratford Hall, and Wilton House in Richmond Virginia. Jim has presented lecture series for continuing education programs at the University of Virginia, the College of William and Mary, George Mason University and the University of Delaware. 

View more at http://www.salmagundi.org/content.cfm/salmagundi/Thompson-Lecture/id/200