Talks & Tours, Exhibition Related

Creative Connections: Scent Tour of Transcendent: Landscapes of the Hudson River School with Laura Plaster

Join us for a new, multisensory experience of Transcendent: Landscapes of the Hudson River School led by Laura Plaster, an educator at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library. During this guided one-hour discussion, paintings from the exhibition will be paired with curated fragrances from independent perfumers to explore the scents inherent to the landscapes captured in the compositions. Slow down, sniff something new, and consider the ways that scents in nature contributed to the spiritual experiences that transcendentalists and those devoted to nature worship sought as part of their belief in the transformative capacities of the natural world.

Niagara: The American Falls, ca. 1821. Alvan Fisher. Oil on linen. The New York Historical, gift of Arthur A. Jones, 1948.25.