The Panoramic River: the Hudson and the Thames

About the Author\nBartholomew F. Bland is Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Hudson River Museum, where he has organized a number of exhibitions related to the art and history of the Hudson Valley Region including, Westchester: The American Suburb and Dutch New York: The Roots of Hudson Valley Culture. He also curated A Field Guide to Sprawl for Arts Westchester, which examined of the impact of the suburban lifestyle on the physical environment, an exhibition that traveled to Yale University. Among his survey exhibitions for the Museum related to the Hudson River School are Paintbox Leaves: Autumnal Inspiration from Cole to Wyeth and Greener Pastures: Images of Arcadia at the Hudson River Museum.
Pat Hardy practiced for many years as a City civil litigator before completing a Ph.D. in 2008 at the Courtauld Institute on 19th-century British art. She has subsequently worked as Assistant Curator at the National Portrait Gallery, Curator of Works on Paper at National Museums Liverpool and is currently Curator of Paintings, Prints and Drawings at the Museum of London. Most recently she co-curated the Dickens and London exhibition at the Museum, contributed an essay Dickens and the Social Realists to the exhibition catalogue Dickens and the Artists, Yale University Press, 2012, and is currently writing a book on the imagery of emigration.
Tara Dawson is a freelance research assistant who works at the Hudson River Museum in the Public Relations and Curatorial departments. In 2011 she conducted research for the Museum s exhibition Elihu Vedder: Voyage On the Nile and its exhibition catalogue. Tara holds a Masters in Museum Studies from New York University, 2010, and a Bachelor s from the University of Rhode Island, 2008.
Geoff Snell is currently writing his doctoral thesis, A Forest of Masts: The Image of the River Thames in the Long Eighteenth Century, an exploration of the visual representation of the Thames and how it evolved to reflect changes in London as the city grew into a major port and center of a commercial empire. He has been collaborating with and supported by the National Maritime Museum, London, the University of Sussex, and the Arts & Humanities Research Council. In 2011, Snell won a Visiting Scholarship from the Yale Center for British Art, where he undertook a comparative study of Thames-related works by 18th-and early 19th-century artists represented in the Paul Mellon Collection, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the Lewis Walpole Library in Farmington.
Laura Vookles is Chief Curator of Collections at the Hudson River Museum. She has been a curator and essayist for the Museum s publications The Old Croton Aqueduct: Rural Resources Meet Urban Needs; Next Stop Westchester! People and the Railroad; Westchester: The American Suburb, Dutch New York: the Roots of Hudson Valley Culture, and Paintbox Leaves: Autumnal Inspiration from Cole to Wyeth. In the 25 years that she has served at the Hudson River Museum, she has focused much effort on Glenview, the Museum s 1877 Hudson River home for which she completed numerous furnishing, conservation, and interpretation projects.