Historical Society Lecture

Professor Donald Dwyer

On November 15, The Garden City Historical Society hosted a lecture and slide presentation, Sculptors of the Gilded Age, given by Professor Donald Dwyer at the Historical Society Museum. The lecture was graciously underwritten by the Garden City law firm, Cullen and Dykman LLP. Professor Dwyer's lecture discussed some of the prominent sculptors working at the height of the A.T. Stewart era, including Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel Chester French, creator of Lincoln's sculpture in the noted monument in Washington, D.C. This period of time, the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, is significant in that it saw the emergence and maturity of American sculpture in individual works and as adjuncts to monumental public architecture. Pictured at the lecture are, left to right, Peter J. Mastaglio, Partner, Cullen and Dykman LLP, Guest Lecturer Professor Donald Dwyer, and Historical Society President Brian Pinnola.