The Cornwall Library is honored to present a memorial exhibit of artwork by Erica Child Prud’homme (1932–2026). The show includes oil paintings and watercolors from her personal archive, and encompasses landscapes, seascapes, still lifes, and mandalas. Thanks to the great generosity of her family, all proceeds from art sales will benefit the Cornwall Library’s art programs and cultural events.

“My work has always been driven by a love of the natural world, its forms, colors, and light,” Prud’homme said. “The order and grace of natural forms, both living and dying, are captivating.”

She was fascinated by the symmetry and grace found in landscapes and seascapes, the relationship of human bodies to natural forms, by the repetitive patterns in waves, fish-scales and wood grains, and by the change in seasons.

Prud’homme was raised in the artistic enclave of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and was influenced by her father and uncle, Charles and Paul Child, both working artists, and her mother, Fredericka, a bookbinder and local theater producer.

After graduating from Middlebury College, she did graduate studies in anthropology at the University of New Mexico and studied at the Art Students League in New York City. She worked as an architectural draftsman in Philadelphia and as an exhibition designer at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan.

Over a career spanning nearly 50 years, Prud’homme exhibited widely. In Cornwall, she showed at the library, at the Rose Algrant Art Show, and in the pages of the Cornwall Chronicle. In New York, she was a member of the Blue Mountain Gallery. In Connecticut, she showed at the Washington Arts Association, Yale’s Sterling Library, and the New Arts Gallery. In Massachusetts, she showed at the Berkshire Museum, the Attleboro Arts Museum, the Geoffrey Young Gallery, the Norman Rockwell Museum, and the Sheffield Museum. And in Maine, she exhibited at the Penobscot Marine Museum.

A sampling of Erica Prud’homme’s work can be found here.

The show will hang through June 20.

Bridge with Gary Steinkohl:  An ongoing series every Thursday from 3pm until 5pm at the Cornwall Library.  If you know basic bidding and play and want to improve your game these classes are for you. The fee is $10 per class, payable to the instructor.

For questions and to register contact Gary at garysteinkohl@gmail.com.

Bridge with Gary Steinkohl:  An ongoing series every Thursday from 3pm until 5pm at the Cornwall Library.  If you know basic bidding and play and want to improve your game these classes are for you. The fee is $10 per class, payable to the instructor.

For questions and to register contact Gary at garysteinkohl@gmail.com.

Art class with Collette Hurst: June 13, 20, and 27, 10 a.m. to 11:30 am. Paint Summer Scenes – Watercolor and Gouache.

Use watercolor or gouache for indoor and outdoor painting (weather permitting). The classroom will be available if you do not wish to paint outdoors. Supplies available for use in class if you do not have them.

Fee is $75 for all three classes, payable to the instructor at first class.

Registration is required.

Thursday mornings 10:30 – noon, and Saturday, June 13, 10:30 – noon. Please register for the Saturday session.

Jump into a magical book-filled interactive reading time with Miss Rita.

Join the Conversation Commission and the Cornwall Library in a conversation with Sandy Carlson about beaver ecology and their impact on the built environment. June 13, 5pm at the Cornwall Library. Light refreshments will be served.

Please email chairmancornwallcc@gmail.com or text 347-277-1970.

Bridge with Gary Steinkohl:  An ongoing series every Thursday from 3pm until 5pm at the Cornwall Library.  If you know basic bidding and play and want to improve your game these classes are for you. The fee is $10 per class, payable to the instructor.

For questions and to register contact Gary at garysteinkohl@gmail.com.

The annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Library will be held June 18 at 4pm. This meeting is open to the public.

You can attend in person or via zoom using this link:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83486459703?pwd=arW4Fn1teRoOR7ax2WaWkN0arOxyAA.1.

This typically is a very brief meeting.  Please be punctual or you may miss it.

A talk by Jonathan Galassi, renowned editor, author, and poet.

Jonathan Galassi is the chairman and executive editor of Farrar, Straus & Giroux. He is the author of four books of poetry, including his latest, The Vineyard, and has published translations of the Italian poets Giacomo Leopardi, Primo Levi, and Eugenio Montale.

This talk will be held at the Cornwall Town Hall, 26 Pine Street in Cornwall Village, and will be followed by a cocktail reception next door at The Cornwall Library with live music by the Crownback Funk Trio.

Tickets are $40 for the talk, $40 for the garden tours or $70 for both. Please register and purchase via the link.

Self-guided tours of four traditional and contemporary Cornwall gardens featuring four distinct garden styles.

Tickets are $40 for the talk, $40 for the garden tours or $70 for both. Please register and purchase via the link.

Tickets and maps for the garden tour may be picked up at the Library on Friday, June 19 between noon and 5pm or on Saturday, June 20, starting at 10am.

Art class with Collette Hurst: June 13, 20, and 27, 10 a.m. to 11:30 am. Paint Summer Scenes – Watercolor and Gouache.

Use watercolor or gouache for indoor and outdoor painting (weather permitting). The classroom will be available if you do not wish to paint outdoors. Supplies available for use in class if you do not have them.

Fee is $75 for all three classes, payable to the instructor at first class.

Registration is required.

Bridge with Gary Steinkohl:  An ongoing series every Thursday from 3pm until 5pm at the Cornwall Library.  If you know basic bidding and play and want to improve your game these classes are for you. The fee is $10 per class, payable to the instructor.

For questions and to register contact Gary at garysteinkohl@gmail.com.