Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
On Frederic Church
LongHouse Reserve’s Larsen Salon lecture series will take up the subject of Frederic Church in the artist’s bicentennial year next Thursday at 6 p.m. at the office of Robert A.M. Stern Architects at One Park Avenue in Manhattan.
Victoria Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, will discuss her new biography, “Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the World,” the first biography of Church (1826-1900). Of it, The American Scholar said, “Victoria Johnson has done full justice to this extraordinarily talented man who was both blessed and cursed by fate.” She “has given us a biography as richly rewarding and absorbing as his art.”
The evening will begin with a reception; the presentation will follow at 6:30. Tickets are $50.
Three Painters at Grenning
“Land, Sea, and Light,” new works by Viktor Butko, Terry Elkins, and Melissa Franklin Sanchez, will open at Sag Harbor’s Grenning Gallery with a reception on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. and run through Nov. 8.
Franklin Sanchez will be represented by new oil paintings based on her daily observations at her home in Tuscany. Butko’s landscapes include a view over a small town in coastal Maine and a Cape Cod-style cottage where two figures on a wooden deck watch the sunset. Elkins, who lives and works in Sagaponack, will show a 10-foot-wide panorama of ocean waves and a more intimate painting of Wainscott Pond.
Brody-Lederman Solo
“Great Good Fortune,” new and recent paintings by Stephanie Brody-Lederman, will open at the Sara Nightingale Gallery in Sag Harbor with a reception on Saturday from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Throughout her long career, the painter and mixed-media artist has chronicled “the poetry of everyday life,” according to the gallery, with quotidian images such as trees, birds, cherry blossoms, and domestic paraphernalia, which she combines with nonlinear texts. The gallery cites Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Edward Albee, and the French New Wave filmmakers as sources of her inspiration.
The exhibition will continue through Nov. 15.
Tony Bechara Tour
Kaitlin Halloran, associate curator and publications manager at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, will lead a tour of “Tony Bechara: An Artist of Many Worlds” on Friday at 3 p.m. The show is the first comprehensive survey of the Puerto Rican artist’s paintings and includes works from his later years that illuminate his dedication to color theory and abstraction.
Tickets are $30, $15 for resident benefits passholders, $10 for members’ guests, and free for members, students, and children.
