Franklin Hill Perrell, Chief Curator of the Nassau County Museum of Art, will present a free lecture, Tiffany and the Gilded Age, on Thursday, November 6, at 7:30 p.m. at The Garden City Historical Society Museum, 109 Eleventh Street. This presentation will be a prelude to the Society's Third Annual Professional Art Show, Saturday and Sunday, November 15-16 and 22-23, on exhibit at the Museum from noon to 3 p.m.

Mr. Perrell will speak about the manufacture of Louis Comfort Tiffany's lamps in Corona, Queens; his relationship to Tiffany & Co., the locations of his windows in Long Island churches, and Tiffany's overlap of design work to the architecture of Stanford White. The character of Tiffany's glass will be shown through a Powerpoint presentation, which will also contain highlights of the current exhibitions, "Tiffany Lamps: Articles of Utility, Objects of Art" and "Tiffany and the Gilded Age," at the Nassau County Museum of Art through January 4, 2009. The Garden City Historical Society is proud to welcome the knowledgeable and talented Franklin Hill Perrell, also the curator of numerous exhibitions.

The Society's Tiffany and the Gilded Age lecture will be sponsored by Brian A. Pinnola, Senior Director of NAI Long Island, a commercial real estate brokerage firm, who is also the president of the Society. Light refreshments will be served at a reception following the lecture.

The Garden City Historical Society's Third Annual Professional Art Show, "Garden City in Art: a Mixed Media Exhibit," features 14 local artists, displaying artworks in sculpture, photography, pastels, watercolors and oils. Returning artists include Suzie Alvey, Lorraine Baralo, Mary Jane Caldwell, Susana Cerruti, Bill Combes, Noel Darvie, Peter Langan, George Mamos, Nancy Peretz and Arleen Urban. We are also pleased to announce four newcomers: Jock Anderson, Irene Craig, Inge Kauders and Graydon Vanderbilt.

Noel Darvie's work is regularly shown locally at Barnes Gallery on Nassau Boulevard, and George Mamos is represented on Long Island by Sunflower Gallery on Seventh Street. Mr. Darvie's oil paintings reflect scenes of Garden City, and his contributions this year include Garden City Winter and Rectory Winter. Mrs. Alvey's paintings and drawings have graced the homes of many Garden City residences since 1980.

Garden City High School graduate Bill Combes says that throughout his travels as a professional/commercial photographer, Garden City and its rich heritage have always remained the focus that provides an inspiration for his photographic imagery. Please join us to celebrate and support our local artists...Exhibit hours, noon to 3 p.m. on November 15-16 and 22-23.