Zoom talk: Czech Vintage Travel Posters on Sept 16 at 7pm

[Suzanna Halsey]

Dobry den!

This will be a quite interesting and entertaing talk by Nicholas Lowry, live on Zoom. Hope you can "attend".

Registration is requested: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/czech-vintage-travel-posters-tickets-116472294769

Cheers!

Suzanna

  

 

Save the Date! Wednesday, SEPTEMBER 16 at 7PM Czech Vintage Travel Posters A talk and presentation by Nicholas Lowry, President and Principal Auctioneer of Swann Auction Galleries in New York City, and avid collector of vintage posters. Nicholas will discuss the treasures from the Lowry Collection - a selection of Czech vintage posters advertising travel throughout the Czech lands, spanning from the 1890s through the 1960s. This event will be broadcast live on Zoom. Register here to receive a link for free viewing.
	Czech vintage posters from the Lowry Collection. Images courtesy of Nicholas D. Lowry.
NICHOLAS D. LOWRY Born to a Czech father who fled Czechoslovakia with his family in 1938, Mr. Lowry lived for four years in Prague in the years immediately following the Velvet Revolution (1990-1994). From a family of antiquarian book dealers, father and son together have amassed the largest collection of Czech posters in the world outside of the Czech museums. They collect out of passion, driven by their curiosity and love of history, culture and tradition. Within the collection are several hundred posters advertising travel throughout the Czech lands, spanning from the 1890s through the 1960s. These wonderful images not only serve to satisfy any feelings of personal nostalgia but also cannot fail to stir the soul of any Czech who sees them, much the same way one's mood might be lifted by listening to Bedřich Smetana's Má Vlast (My Country). Nicholas' interest in vintage posters is more than just a family past time. As President and Principal Auctioneer of Swann Auction Galleries in New York City, Nicholas is also director of the auction house's Vintage Poster Department and has appeared for over 20 years as an appraiser on the PBS Television series Antiques Roadshow as the poster specialist. Posters from the Lowry Collection have been exhibited at the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library and the Dutch Poster Museum.   The event is organized by the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences, New York Chapter, with support of Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association (BBLA.) Visit our  SVU NY YouTube Channel to "attend" our past events! Our live streaming events in August 2020 include "Putin, Trumps and the US Elections in 2016" , a lecture by Professor Igor Lukes, Boston University, and the first episode of our new series 3-Minute Challenge with Katarína Vizina, Ján Pečarka and Hana Shannon.

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Suzanna Halsey
Adjunct Czech Language Instructor

NYU CAS Russian and Slavic Studies Department

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