Upcoming & Current Events
Upcoming Exhibition in the Library Company’s Louise Lux-Sions and Harry Sions Gallery:
New Exhibition opens to the public Thursday, March 18
Philadelphia on Stone: The First Fifty Years of Commercial Lithography, 1828-1878
This exhibition explores the history of 19th-century Philadelphia lithography and its impact on contemporary visual culture. Philadelphia on Stone explicates the history and process of lithography, documents the professional and personal lives of premier and journeymen lithographers, and includes lithographs from the collections of the Library Company and several other institutions whose collections were surveyed. In addition, the work of contemporary lithographers Kip Deeds and Roberta Delaney will be on display to represent the continuing influence of this trade on the printed arts.
Join us for the exhibition opening reception on Thursday, March 25 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. featuring a talk at 6:00 by Nancy Finlay, editor of Picturing Victorian America: Prints bythe Kellogg Brothers of Hartford, 1830-1880 and Curator of Graphics at the Connecticut HistoricalSociety. Please RSVP to this event by emailing lpropst@librarycompany.org or calling 215-546-3181.
The Library Company is pleased to acknowledge generous funding of the Philadelphia on Stone project from the William Penn Foundation.
Philadelphia on Stone is an Independent Project of Philagrafika 2010, Philadelphia’s international festival celebrating print in contemporary art. Click here to learn more.
Above image: Christian Schussele, Chromo lithography (Philadelphia: P.S. Duval, 1850). Chromolithograph. Library Company of Philadelphia
CONFERENCE:
March 18-20, 2010
Early African American Print Culture
in Theory and Practice
The late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries mark both the inauguration of an African American literary tradition and the consolidation of American print culture. Yet these two most vibrant areas for American Studies scholarship are rarely considered in relation to one another. To the extent that scholars understand African American print culture at all, we do so with a dependence on critical models that assume that print is a stabilizing technology that underwrites the establishment of African American identity. But while the technology of print fixes impressions, print culture designates a world in which print both integrates with other practices and assumes a life of its own. Early African American Print Culture in Theory and Practicebrings together more than a dozen distinguished and emerging scholars whose research demonstrates that the study of print culture has much to teach us about early African American literature and that early African American literature has the capacity to transform our understanding of print culture.
The Library Company will observe the following holidays in 2009:
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day - Monday, January 19
Presidents’ Day - Monday, February 16
Good Friday - Friday, April 10
Memorial Day - Monday, May 25
Independence Day - Friday, July 3
Labor Day - Monday, September 7
Thanksgiving - Thursday, November 26 & Friday, November 27
Christmas - Thursday, December 24th & Friday, December 25
New Years - Friday, January 1, 2010
Current Press Releases:
Press Release - 1/22/2010: Library Company of Philadelphia Displays Exhibition: Philadelphia On Stone:The First Fifty Years of Commercial Years of Commercial Lithography in Philadelphia, 1828-1878 (PDF)
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