Description: Shifting Shorelines offers a counter reading of the received art historical narratives about the "scenic Hudson" and aims for a rich and complex understanding of the river informed by the voices and experiences of a broad range of creators.
Brief description: Annette Blaugrund, former director of the National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts (1997-2007), has published and lectured widely on American art and culture. She was the Andrew W. Mellon senior curator at the New-York Historical Society and a curator at the Brooklyn Museum and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She has written sixteen books about American art, including Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition (1989), The Tenth Street Studio Building (1997), John James Audubon (1999), and Thomas Cole: The Artist as Architect (2016). In 1992 she was named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government and in 2008 received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Design. She has a Ph.D. in art history from Columbia University (1987), where she taught American art (1996-2001). She is consulting curator at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, sits on Columbia University Art History Department's Advisory Council, and is co-curator and project manager for this exhibition and catalogue.