Hamilton College
Skip Main Navigation
Skip Section Navigation Alumni Review eNEWS EXTRA
Contact Information
Hamilton Alumni Review

315-859-4648 (fax)

Edward Root Documentary Airs Tonight on WCNY

Contact: Vige Barrie
Phone: (315) 859-4623
January 29, 2008

George B. Luks (American 1867 - 1933)
George B. Luks (American 1867 - 1933)
A one-hour documentary titled "Auspicious Vision: Edward Wales Root and American Modernism" and produced locally by WCNY will be shown for the first time on Tuesday, Jan. 29, at 9 p.m. Included in the documentary footage are shots of the recent Emerson Gallery exhibition "The Best Kind of Life: Edward W. Root as Teacher, Collector and Naturalist" as well as images of the Root Glen and the Root homestead. 

Munson William Proctor Art Institute's exhibit "Auspicious Vision" will also be a focus of the program. Hamilton College is one of the sponsors of the documentary which will air on WCNY-TV, Central New York's public broadcasting station.