About

This website is curated by Geoffrey K. Fleming

Geoff is the Executive Director and CEO of the Reading Public Museum in Reading, Pennsylvania. He specializes in the art and history of Long Island, New York, and is the author or co-author of more than three dozen books and catalogs, including the award-winning publications A Shared Aesthetic: Artists of Long Island’s North Fork and Eclectic Rhythms: The Artists of Huntington, West Virginia, 1871-Present. Fleming serves as a grant reviewer for a number of national organizations, including the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and as an accreditation reviewer for the American Alliance of Museums (AAM). He is the recipient of a 2017 Sansom Foundation grant which supported the writing of a monograph on the Bay Shore, Long Island paintings of the noted American realist painter and Ashcan School founder, William J. Glackens (1870 – 1938).

This project was crafted in part by the skillful work of Louie Roybal III from Roybal Creative, who designed and developed the website.

We gratefully acknowledge the foundational work of Schuyler Horton, who began this project years ago with care and dedication. His early efforts made this site possible, and we honor his memory and contributions here.