The Philadelphia-born Ramsey is most often identified with the painters of that city. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in the early 1860s where he knew Thomas Eakins, the muralist Edwin Blashfield, and others. While at the Academy he first began to explore still life painting, which would remain his primary thematic...Read More

In Stream in Winter the long, low arch of a bridge over the Bronx River identifies the scene with Bronxville. One imagines that the artist stood along the water’s edge between what is now Pondfield Road West and Palmer Avenue, where in particular the river twists and turns as in the painting. The artist combines the techniques...Read More

In Winter Woods the strong blue and white contrast of the trees in snow is a departure from the depiction of a wintry scene in Stream in Winter. It is clearly more Impressionist in style and anticipates the strong compositions of Parsons’ Santa Fe years.Read More

Otto Bacher was the third member of the artist colony to move to Lawrence Park. Prior to establishing his Bronxville residency in 1896, Bacher studied painting with Frank Duveneck, who, with William Merritt Chase, had been among the first Americans enrolled at the Royal Academy in Munich. In 1880 the “Duveneck’s Boys” traveled to Venice...Read More

Spencer Nichols is probably best known as a designer of church windows and murals for Tiffany Studios. After his retirement from Tiffany he began easel painting around 1917 and found it challenging to transition from commercial to fine art. He moved to Bronxville at about the same time as his brother, Hobart, but relocated to...Read More

This work represents the pool and garden of Spencer Nichols’ former Bronxville home at 93 Tanglewylde Avenue. The gouache shows the influence of the artist’s work for Louis Comfort Tiffany, for whom he designed mosaics, windows, and murals from about 1911-1917. The impression of stained glass is created by the vivid, jewel-like patches of color...Read More

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