Like so many of the Bronxville artists, Walter Clark was well established in his field before moving to the village in 1910. After earning a degree at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1869, he toured Europe to study art and ar- chitecture. Clark exhibited at the National Academy of Design for almost forty years and...Read More
Will Low was one of Lawrence Park’s earliest residents (he arrived in 1897) and was certainly the most ardent spokesperson on behalf of his colleagues. Will studied many art forms, but excelled as a muralist. Notable among his many accomplishments were the thirty-six twelve-foot high panels for the rotunda of the New York State Education...Read More
Mary was the only daughter of Alexander and Euphenus Masterton. She is seen here as a young girl of about eight years, elegantly dressed and playing the piano, the very model of a child from a well-to-do family. Mary married Elias Dusenberry, a lawyer from a prominent local Dutch family, in 1856 and together they...Read More
William Thomas Smedley was known first as an illustrator and then for his portrayals of fashionable men and women in social settings. He rode the crest of a boom in the demand for illustrations created for books, magazines, news- papers, and posters that reached its peak in America in the late 1890s. Around 1900 Smedley...Read More
Dozens of budding architects crowded into the Bronxville School gym on Sunday, January 13 for the second annual workshop, “Building Bronxville Brick By Brick.” Designed to spark interest in Bronxville’s rich architectural heritage, third through sixth graders and their families created models of village buildings out of LEGO blocks. The structures were then placed on...Read More
With a backdrop of 19th and early 20th century paintings gathered by Objects and Images Gallery, combined with works lent from several villagers’ private collections, villager and art historian Jayne Warman painted a magnificent landscape of Bronxville’s early art and its ever-increasing value in the current market in the first gallery event in the spring...Read More
On Sunday, April 7th, villagers gathered at the Bronxville Library for a very successful “Literary Afternoon of Prose and Poetry” co-sponsored by the Bronxville Historical Conservancy and the Bronxville Public Library. Jayne Warman conceived of this literary occasion to shed light on the writings of Bronxville’s earliest residents. Mayor Nancy Hand, Marilynn Hill, Patricia Owen,...Read More
Magnificence was the word of the day as Conservancy members accepted an invitation from Brendan Gill speaker Richard Jenrette to visit one of his historic mansions on the Hudson River, Edgewater. With sensational views across sloping lawns graced by 200-year old locust, basswood and willow trees, this impressively restored estate was simply spectacular. Read More
Stephen May, historian, preservationist and expert on historic art studios, visited Bronxville on October 27, 2002, a program organized by Conservancy member Eloise Morgan to share insights into Bronxville’s historic art studios, the artists who built them and the art work they created. Bronxville’s extraordinary collection of studios was built between 1894 and 1919. Scattered...Read More
The historical sky top home of Frederic Church, the eminent 19th century landscape artist, was the destination. All who headed up the Hudson on that day were inspired by a bold vision, thoughtfully preserved.Read More
