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Dec 14, 20231 min read

Southampton Summer Society at Play: Explore our new digital collection with New York Heritage

We're thrilled to announce our recent collaboration with New York Heritage, enabling Southampton History Museum to reach more people by...

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May 31, 20221 min read

Southampton's 20th Century Influencers

From November 18, 2021 to April 14, 2022 we hosted a series of six lectures by museum staff on various full/part-time residents of...

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Apr 19, 202215 min read

Southampton's 20th Century Influencers: Gary Cooper, Hollywood Icon

The actor we all know as Gary Cooper was born Frank James Cooper on May 7, 1901 in Helena Montana approximately 2,300 miles from...

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Mar 15, 202210 min read

Southampton's 20th Century Influencers: Roy Lichtenstein, Pop Art Groundbreaker

In 1952, writing in ARTnews, Fairfield Porter hails the 29-year-old Roy Lichtenstein as “a young newcomer” to the art world though, at...

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Mar 10, 202210 min read

Southampton’s 20th Century Influencers: William S. Paley, Founder of CBS

William Paley and CBS are larger subjects than I imagined when I first chose to do this talk. But here goes. It was 1951 when CBS...

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Feb 1, 202216 min read

Southampton's 20th Century Influencers: Larry Rivers, In A Class By Himself

I’ll start my talk today on a brief personal note. When I was in high school in Southampton we got a thrilling new next-door neighbor on...

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Dec 21, 202121 min read

Southampton's 20th Century Influencers: Jack Dempsey, The Manassa Mauler

Before getting into the life story of Jack Dempsey, it is important to understand the history of boxing as a sport in human culture....

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Nov 23, 202111 min read

Southampton's 20th Century Influencers: Jane Wilson, Artist of the Ethereal

Artist Jane Wilson, best known for he luminous landscapes hovering between abstraction and representation, once told an interviewer that...

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