ON VIEW

Like the nation’s economy, American art and literature flourished during the Gilded Age. It was an exuberant age of excess with its own secret flaws, including widespread fraud. This exhibition examines the appearances and the realities of an era that mirrors our own in many ways. The art of John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam, Louis Comfort Tiffany and others adorned palatial residences designed by Stanford White and Ogden Codman Jr., architect of our own quintessential Gilded Age mansion. Drawing heavily upon the local literary history of Long Island, including William Cullen Bryant, Mark Twain (who named the Gilded Age), Walt Whitman, Edith Wharton and others, this exhibition includes paintings, fashion, decorative arts including period silver and china, photographs, manuscripts, first editions and other historic memorabilia.

Exhibition Hours 

Tuesday-Sunday, 11 am-4:45 pm

Docent Tours available everyday at 2 pm Museum Store and Cafe Hours, 11 am-4 pm

EXPLORE OUR GILDED AGE

Art and Decorative Art Styles of the Gilded Age with Curator, Franklin Hill Perrell

Franklin Hill Perrell, curator of Our Gilded Age, will discuss a selection of works on view in the exhibition through the lens of the era’s changing styles and art movements including, grand tradition portraiture (in the spirit of Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough) French Salon style, Impressionism, Realism/Social Realism, Romanticism; and in the decorative arts, and Renaissance Revival Style vs. Art Nouveau.   Artists discussed in Perrell’s talk include John Singer Sargent, William Merritt Chase, Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt and Louis Comfort Tiffany.

Sunday, January 21

3 pm

Spotlight on a Tiffany Lamp: A Verbal Description Video

This verbal description video provides an opportunity for visitors who are blind, have low vision or are sighted to experience the richness of one of Louis Comfort Tiffany’s magnificent stained glass lamps through a vivid, rich verbal description of materials, process and historical context in which the object was created.

FOR FAMILIES

Family Saturdays

Make Art Together

A family friendly event for children and their adult companions inviting participants to create works inspired by those they see in the Museum. Each week a new project inspired by the works in our galleries, sculpture garden, or nature preserve is introduced.

Saturdays in January

Between 12 and 3 pm

WINTER ART CLASSES

Paint. Draw. Build. Create.

Get ready for another round of art classes! Make work like you see in the galleries, find inspiration in winter hues, and share your creativity with our skilled art instructors and fellow makers at The Manes Art Education Center. See the full catalog of classes on our website or pick-up a brochure during your next Museum visit.

EXHIBITION AND MANSION TOURS

Exhibition Tours

Dig a little deeper into select works in our exhibition each day with docent-led tours.

Tuesday-Sunday 

2 pm 

Free with admission  

Mansion Tours

Take a guided history tour of our Neo-Georgian, Gold Coast mansion, that was once the home of the Frick family from 1919–1965. See architectural details, hidden doors, old photographs, and hear stories reflecting the family’s life here in the early 20th century.

Saturdays 

1 pm 

Free with admission

Docent-led exhibition tours follow at 2 pm   

Into the Woods, 2023

Laurie Lambrecht

See this site-specific installation by Long Island artist, Laurie Lambrecht, located in the courtyard of The Manes Art Education Center. Images on soft tapestries represent the bark of trees in the Museum’s arboretum. Stay tuned for the next phase of this project along our Pinetum trail.

Tuesday-Sunday

9am-dusk

Into the Woods is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Into the Woods is a sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts.

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NASSAU COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART

One Museum Drive

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516-484-9338

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