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LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE AT VASSAR COLLEGE EVENT

Elverhoj: The Arts and Crafts Colony at Milton-on-Hudson

Wednesday, Oct. 30 | 2:00-4:00PM
Vassar College Library
Single Session - In Person
Limit: 20

Presenter: Ronald Patkus

Elverhoj, "Hill of the Fairies" in Danish, was an arts and crafts colony along the Hudson River, founded in 1912 by Danish American artists and craftsmen. The community excelled in jewelry, metalwork, painting, and textiles, with close ties to Vassar College. The course will include a presentation by William Rhoads and Leslie Melvin, authors of a recent book on Elverhoj. Following the presentation there will be a tour of the exhibition on the same topic in the Vassar College Library (Vassar recently acquired an Elverhoj Collection).

Suggested Readings: William Rhoads and Leslie Melvin, Elverhoj: The Arts and Crafts Colony at Milton-on-Hudson. On Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Elverhoj-Crafts-Colony-Milton-Hudson/dp/B0BB1C9CW6

Ronald Patkus serves as head of the Archives & Special Collections Library and is the College Historian. A member of the History Department, he also holds the Frederick Weyerhaeuser Endowed Chair in Biblical Literature and Bibliography. He is the Library Liaison to the departments of German Studies and Italian. His teaching and research interests focus on the history of books and printing, and the history of Vassar.

William Rhoads is professor emeritus of art history at SUNY New Paltz where he taught between 1970 and 2005. Rhoads studied architectural history at Princeton University. His doctoral dissertation, The Colonial Revival, was published by Garland in 1977. He has lectured and published widely on the colonial revival, Franklin Roosevelt's art and architectural interests, and the architecture of the Hudson Valley.

Leslie Melvin is an academic technologist at Bard College with an MA in art history and museum studies. Leslie joined the Elverhoj research group while serving on the board of the Ulster County Historical Society.

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