Stories about Art and Artists related to Nutley NJ
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Stories about Art and Artists related to Nutley NJ
The Nutley Historical Society will host “An Evening with Gary Erbe” on Thursday, Oct. 24, at 7 p.m. at the Nutley Museum, 65 Church Street. The event will feature an interview with the internationally acclaimed artist and Enclosure resident, reflecting on his distinguished art career and discussing the directions of his current artwork.
June 2024 -- Nutley Historical Society Art Historian Barry Lenson made a pleasant discovery while visiting Roosevelt House on the Upper East Side of New York City. There, Lenson spotted the work of Enclosure Artist Reginald Marsh.
Dec. 4,2016 -- The Nutley Historical Society proudly hosted the book launch, lecture and book signing by Gary Erbe, nationally known trompe l’oeil artist and Nutley resident held a the Nutley Museum.
Erbe presented Footprints: The Art and Life of Gary Erbe, a newly released book published by The Butler Institute of American Art.
Signed copies of the book were available for sale at the event and the Ann Troy Gallery at the Nutley Museum welcomed visitors.
According to the Walking Tour of The Enclosure and Environs on Oct. 28, 1973, conducted and created by the Nutley Historical Society to support restoration of Kingsland Manor:
Mallaby House: 62 Enclosure
1840 – Owned by the Mallaby family until the 1920s, the George Symonds lived there from 1882 to 1886. Mrs. Symonds was the former Isabelle Vreeland.
Arthur Hoeber House: 55 Enclosure
Nutley, NJ-based artist Billy Lopa unveiled his painting, The Rising of the American Spirit, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of 911, at the Nutley Historical Society on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021.
Lopa donated this painting to the Nutley Historical Society where it will proudly hang in the Nutley Museum along with the paintings of other great Nutley artists dating back to the late 1800s and The Enclosure Artists' Colony.