[MassHistPres] Drawing Toward Home--HNE & BU

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The Boston University Art Gallery  Presents 
Drawing Toward Home: Designs for Domestic Architecture  from Historic New 
England 
* Exhibition Dates: November  18, 2009 – January 17, 2010 
SUPPLEMENTARY PROGRAMMING 
* Wednesday, December 2, 2009,  at 4:00 PM Boston University Art  
History and Architecture professor Keith Morgan will  lead a gallery  
talk.  (Location: BUAG at the Stone  Gallery) 
* Tuesday, December 15, 2009,  at 4:00 PM Historic New England   
Library and Archives curator Lorna Condon will lead a  gallery talk.  
(Location: BUAG at the Stone  Gallery) 
* Saturday, January 16, 2010,  9:00 AM – 1:00 PM “Drawing Toward  
Home: A Symposium on Designs for Domestic Architecture  from Historic New  
England”  (Location:  Conference Auditorium, 2nd floor of the ?George  
Sherman Union, 775  Commonwealth Avenue, Boston) 
Speakers will include: James F. O’Gorman, professor   
emeritus, Wellesley College; Christopher Monkhouse, Eloise W.  Martin  
curator of European Decorative Arts, Art Institute of  Chicago; Lorna   
Condon, curator, Library and Archives, Historic New  England; Debora  
Mayer, Helen Glaser senior paper conservator, Harvard University; Keith   
N.  Morgan, professor, American and European architecture, Boston   
University; Carl Nold, president, Historic New  England 
Historic New England will take reservations at   
617-227-3957, ext. 254 
* Please contact Christina An,  BU Art Gallery graduate assistant,  
education/community outreach initiatives, with any  questions at can at bu.edu 
(Boston) - The Boston University Art Gallery (BUAG) and Historic New   
England  present Drawing Toward Home: Designs for Domestic Architecture  
from Historic New  England. The exhibition features 100 drawings of   
houses selected from the rich collections of Historic  New England.  The  
drawings range in date from the late eighteenth through  the twentieth  
centuries, depicting an array of domestic building  types, from estates  
and  modest single-family houses to summer cottages and typical Boston   
multi-family dwellings. The drawings document the  development of the  
architectural profession in America. 
Drawing Toward Home illustrates changes in taste and  technology and  
presents many of the drawings as works of art. The  exhibition includes  
pieces by both famous and little-known architects as  well as houses  
designed in the Federal, Victorian, Arts and Crafts, and  International  
styles. It features exterior elevations, plans,  sketches, details, and  
highly finished, beautifully rendered drawings. In  addition, there are  
drawings for landscape designs, outbuildings, fences and  even a proposal  
for  an elaborate birdhouse. The BUAG showing and symposium are sponsored   
by  the Boston University Humanities Foundation  (www.bu.edu/hf/). 
Dedicated to serving the public of New England as well as the university   
community, Boston University Art Gallery (BUAG) is a  non-profit art  
gallery geared toward an interdisciplinary  interpretation of art and  
culture. Maintaining an ongoing exhibition schedule in  its current  
location since 1958, now named the Stone Gallery,  exhibitions focus on  
international, national, and regional art developments,  chiefly in the  
twentieth century. BUAG has a particular commitment to  offer a  
culturally inclusive view of art, one that expands the  boundaries of  
museum exhibitions. 
BUAG is located at 855 Commonwealth Avenue, at the Stone  Gallery inside  
the  College of Fine Arts building on the Boston University campus (BU   
West T stop on the "B" Green Line). Gallery hours are  Tuesday-Friday  
11:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Saturday & Sunday 1:00 – 5:00 PM  (closed Mondays and  
holidays). For more information, please visit  www.bu.edu/art. 
Historic New England is  the oldest, largest, and most comprehensive  
regional heritage organization in the nation. We bring  history to life  
while preserving the past for everyone interested in  exploring the  
authentic New England  experience from the seventeenth century to today.  
Historic New England  owns and operates thirty-six historic homes and  
landscapes spanning five states. The organization shares  the region’s  
history through vast collections, publications, public  programs, museum  
properties, archives, and family stories that document  more than 400  
years of life in New  England. For more information visit  
www.HistoricNewEngland.org. 
EXHIBITION AND GALLERY EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE  PUBLIC 
THE  BUAG SHOWING AND SYMPOSIUM ARE SPONSORED BY THE BOSTON UNIVERSITY  
HUMANITIES  FOUNDATION
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