Soak Up the Visual Delights of Currier & Ives With a Virtual Green-Wood Cemetery Exhibit Tour
Their images are synonymous with 19th century America and the men behind the evocative lithographs were both laid to rest in an iconic landscape of the time, Green-Wood Cemetery.
‘The Great East River Suspension Bridge’ by Currier & Ives, circa 1877. Image via Library of Congress
Their images are synonymous with 19th century America and the men behind the evocative lithographs were both laid to rest in an iconic landscape of the time, Green-Wood Cemetery.
Currier & Ives, founded in 1834 by Nathaniel Currier and expanded in 1857 to include partner James Merritt Ives, produced millions of affordably priced prints, disseminating romantic landscapes, portraits and other views across the country. Popular local images included skaters in Central Park and views of Brooklyn’s new bridge before it opened in 1883. Join Green-Wood Cemetery historian Jeff Richman and Amy Kurtz Lansing, curator at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Conn., for a virtual talk and tour of the museum’s exhibition Revisiting America: The Prints of Currier & Ives.
The talk takes place on Wednesday, January 19 from 6 to 7 p.m. Tickets are $9 for the general public and $4 for Green-Wood members. For more information and to purchase a ticket, visit the event page online.
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