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Monthly Archives: October 2018
If This Mahogany Desk Could Talk: A Colorful Tale of Aaron Burr and His Wives
An unpretentious mahogany desk from the 1830s might easily go unnoticed in Bartow-Pell’s upstairs parlor. Although this ordinary piece is of little interest to connoisseurs of fine furniture, the fact that it belonged to the tempestuous patriot Aaron Burr definitely … Continue reading →
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Tagged Aaron Burr, Aaron Burr Alston, Aaron Burr and female education, Aaron Burr's divorce, Aaron Burr's wives, Ann Stillwell Baratow de Visme, Augustine James Frederick Prevost, Cowis McKee & Co., Eliza Jumel, Enlightenment period in America, Hermitage Ho-Ho-Kus, James Marcus Prevost, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Bartow, Joseph Alston, Loyalists and patriots in the American Revolution, Mary Wollstonecraft, Morris-Jumel mansion, Pelham New York in the 18th century, Pell manor house, Secretary desk 1830s, Theodosia Bartow Burr Alston, Theodosia Bartow Prevost Burr
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George Inness’s The Woodchoppers (1858) on Display at Bartow-Pell
I wrote recently about Jasper Francis Cropsey’s Summer Landscape (1853). Today I would like to consider The Woodchoppers (1858), a landscape painting by Cropsey’s contemporary George Inness (1825–1894), another artist who came of age during the heyday of the Hudson … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barbizon School, Emanuel Swedenborg, George Inness, Hudson River School, Jasper Francis Cropsey, John Jesse Barker, John Ruskin, Montclair New Jersey, National Academy of Design, Newburg New York, Newington-Cropsey Foundation, Regis Gignoux, The Woodchoppers, Theodore Rousseau, William Page
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