Date: 06/21/12 through 09/09/12
Ages: All
Address: 170 Central Park West (77 St.) - 212-873-3400
www.nyhistory.org

Description: Making American Taste features fifty-five works from the New-York Historical Society's collection that cast new light on both the history of American art and the formation of American cultural ideals during a crucial period from the 1830s to the late 1860s. By integrating history, literary and religious subjects with now better-known examples of rural and domestic genre, the exhibition explores the broad range of styles and narrative themes that appealed to nineteenth-century Americans seeking cultural refinement.