May 18th St Paul's Chapel 6.30pm - 8.30pm book launch of The Nation's First Monument and the Origins of the American Memorial Tradition

When: 

 

06:30 pm to 08:30 pm, May 18, 2015

Where: 

 

• St. Paul's Chapel

Trinity Wall Street invites you to celebrate the launch of "The Nation’s First Monument and the Origins of the American Memorial Tradition," by Sally Webster. Dr. Webster will deliver an informal talk at 7pm. Light refreshments will be served. Please RSVP by May 15 tomhayes@trinitywallstreet.org
or call 212.602.0746.

Sally Webster is Professor Emerita of American Art at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. An authority on historic murals and monuments, her latest book, "The Nation’s First Monument and the Origins of the American Memorial Tradition," was published in April 2015. She is also the author of "Eve’s Daughter/Modern Woman: A Mural by Mary Cassatt" and an essay in the forthcoming Blackwell Companion to Public Art. Professor Webster
is a writer-in-residence in New York Public Library’s Wertheim Study.