Adult Craft: Book Page Boxes

Tuesday February 22 @ 2pm

Adult Craft

Book Page Boxes
January 22
2 pm

Looking to create that Vintage look for your room?  We will be crafting old boxes with book pages so you can bring that look anywhere!

 
Special Lecture sponsored by Hurley Heritage Society
Winslow Homer in the 1870s – The Hurley Years
Speaker: Reilly Rhodes
Date: Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Time: 7:00 PM
Place: Hurley Reformed Church, 11 Main St., Hurley NY
>>> Free Admission. Refreshments served. <<<
   Many residents of Ulster County are aware that the world-renowned artist Winslow Homer spent time in Hurley and painted his famous Snap the Whip here. However, little was known about what else he might have painted here until about three years ago when author Reilly Rhodes started asking questions. Rhodes, who has studied and collected the early works of Homer for over 20 years, had a hunch that many other Homer paintings and wood engravings of the 1870s were scenes taken from the Hurley landscape. He worked with the Hurley historian, the Hurley Heritage Society, and other sources to collect vintage images and historical accounts supporting his case that more than 30 of Homer’s works were inspired by Hurley. It is astounding that such a large trove of new details are being revealed about an artist who has been intensely studied by myriad scholars for over 100 years. Rhodes refers to Hurley as “ground zero” of his latest research. His 2017 book Winslow Homer: From Poetry to Fiction includes his Hurley research up to that time and was the inspiration for the Hurley Museum’s 2019 Homer exhibit. This lecture is a rare opportunity to hear from the author himself about his journey of discovery which continues even now.  Come and be treated to an artful panorama of American rural life in the mid-nineteenth century.
“… [This is] thorough and truly groundbreaking research [Rhodes has] done in documenting Homer’s activities—and his precise whereabouts—in the 1870s.”  Franklin Kelly, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, National Gallery of Art, 11/13/2019
About Reilly Rhodes
Reilly Rhodes is an art historian, curator and author based in southern California who has studied and collected the works of Winslow Homer and published two books on the subject. Since the late 1960s, he has held top administrative positions at seven museums including the Seattle Museum of History and Industry, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art. In 1996, he founded Contemporary and Modern Print Exhibitions, a service that plans and organizes exhibitions of American and European art for museums. His research on the early work of Winslow Homer began more than twenty years ago with a touring exhibition sponsored by the IBM Corporation. Rhodes is the author of Winslow Homer from Poetry to Fiction, which was given a four out of four-star rating by the onlinebookclub in 2017.
Picture caption
Snap the Whip, Winslow Homer, 1872, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.
email content by Gail Whistance,curator of the Winslow Homer exhibit at the Hurley Heritage Society museum, 2019- 2020

Winter Movie Matinees

Come beat the winter blues with these award nominated films at the Hurley Library!

Wednesday, January 8

Downton Abbey

1:30 pm

Wednesday, January 29

Judy

1:30 pm

Refreshments will be served!

Holiday Hours

The Hurley Library will be open from 11-2 on Christmas Eve and New Years Eve. Hurley Library will be closed on Christmas Day and New Years Day.

We wish everyone a safe and happy holiday season!

Closed Tuesday 12/17

Hurley Library will be closed 12/17 due to inclement weather.

Holiday Gift Make and Take

Saturday, December 14

1-2 pm

Children of all ages can come make a gift with Miss Kristen at the Hurley Library for that someone special.  Registration encouraged call 845-338-2092 or stop into the library to sign up.

Holly Jolly Holiday Celebration

Saturday December 7

3-5 pm

Come on out to the Hurley Library starting at 3 pm for a Holly Jolly Holiday Celebration.  Fun for all ages!  There will be crafts, hot chocolate, cookie decorating, and the annual tree lighting.  Shop the Friends of the Hurley Library $5 bag book sale and roast s’mores by the fire.  There will also be the judging of the candy cane decorating contest and one lucky family will take home a grand prize!

Hurley Library will be closed today 12/2

Special Saturday Story Hour

11/30/2019

10 am

Join us for this special Saturday story hour with Miss Amy and learn about how different families celebrate Thanksgiving.

Two By Two Zoo

Two by Two Zoo is Coming to the Hurley Library!

Saturday November 23
1-2 pm

A premier traveling petting zoo with a message: Conservation thru education

Come meet a Red Kangaroo Joey, Hedgehog , Rabbit, Chinchilla,
Tortoise, Bearded Dragon and Ball Python

*Sponsored by the Friends of the Hurley Library*

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