----------------------------Original message---------------------------- ------------------ The following may be of interest to your readers/visotors to your site: For immediate release: Exhibition Celebrating 100 years of NYC history available to travel Contact: New Rochelle Council on The Arts, 163 Third Av., NY NY 10003 212-529-2025 FAX: 212-260-9217 E-MAIL: tech-man=40erols.com Vintage New York is an exhibition created by The New Rochelle Council on The Arts to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the joining of New York City's five boroughs into one great metropolis. The show, which had its premiere at the Lumen Winter Gallery in the architectural award winning New Rochelle Public Library in March of this year, is now available for travel. The NRCA, founded in 1975 as a not-for-profit organization, sponsors many community arts activities each year. It serves the 70,000 citizens of New Rochelle, in addition to surrounding communi-ties in Westchester County, New York in fine arts exhibitions and festivals, performing arts series and a host of other educational and cultural events. New Rochelle has been the home of many who are recognized for their accomplishments in the arts =96 Norman Rockwell, Frederic Remington and others. Because of this, the NRCA chose to honor her sister city on the occasion of this important Centennial with this show. The exhibition consists of 92 graphics that depict important New York City landmarks and neighborhoods, visualize important and dramatic events in the city's history, and show the lives of New Yorkers in many aspects over the past century. It is a show that is particularly attractive to present and former residents of New York City, many of the latter who now live outside the city and its immediate surroundings. Because the NRCA believes that this exhibition will be of interest to them, it is now being prepared to travel. Vintage New York includes 41 copperplate etchings by Leon L. Dolice (1892-1960) created from the 1920s through the 1950s, of historic landmarks and neighborhoods. A student of George Luks, Dolice was considered one of the most accomplished etchers of the twentieth century, mainly for his city scenes. His work is in a number of museums and in important private and corporate collections. This is one of the most comprehensive exhibitions of his copperplate work ever assembled. Twenty-three replicas of engravings from Harper's Magazine, Frank Leslie's and other publications dating from around 1850 through the turn of the century show dramatic events and interesting places and people in the city's history. They show many of the similarities between New York's culture of a hundred years' past and that of the present. Twenty-eight photographs, reproduced from private collections, newspapers and magazines dating from around the turn of the century on, show changes in many of the city's dis-tricts, and the people of New York at work and at play. These three parts of Vintage New York can each stand alone as separate exhibitions, or integrate into one comprehensive history of the city over the past 100 years. Works are accompanied by detailed narrative captions explaining the scenes depicted, making the exhibition an educational as well as an aesthetic experience. This show also has the flexibility to allow the integration of material about your own locale, organization or company, enabling a personalized historical exhibition of a scope that would be otherwise prohibitive. Vintage New York is available for loan to museums, arts groups, educational institutions, galleries and corporate organizations that have display facilities to accommodate it. Interested parties are invited to contact the New Rochelle Council on The Arts at 163 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10003 -- or to contact the NRCA through Email at =3Ctech-man=40erols.com=3E -30-