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Journal of the Lycoming County Historical Society, Winter 1997-98 JOURNAL ofthe SQ.omi«gGm@@ht«H.«r©ode@ VOLUME XXXVll WINTER NUMBER 'l'WO 1997/98 $ @ @ :.? $%#glktii:; d.l:iiiil..I The JOURINAL of the P @)t;t)t y 4ila$t.dcar6£ociet# Published in Williamsport, Pennsylvania Museum - 858 West Fourth Street Telephone (717) 326-3326 The Park Home Collection presentedby: Lycoming College Art Department Lycoming County Historical Society Park Home February 6 - March 27, 1998 Lectures by Dr. Amy Golahny and Mr. Robert E. Kane Jr. February 6, 1998 3:30 - 4:30 pm Room G-ll Heim Building Lycoming College Williamsport, Pennsylvania On front cover: EugeneVerboeckhoven(1798-1881), Coming Storm, signed and dated 1854.Oil on canvas. Opening Reception 40" x 53" Friday, February 6, 1998 4:30 - 5:30pm Lycoming College Art Gallery Printed by -- Hilsher Graphics The John G. Snowden Memorial Library Photograph Credits: SeverinRoesen Transparencies provided by the Gallery Hours: Williamsport/Lycoming Arts Council. Monday-Thursday 10am-8pm; Friday 10am-4:30pm Cover photo, Eugene Verboeckhoven, and James Hamilton photo by Terry Wild Saturday 10am-5pm; Sunday lpm-8pm Spring Break Hours 10am-4:30pm February 23-27 Lycolning County Historical Society, 1997/98. This journal may Closed February 21, 22, 28 and March 1 not bereproduced in whole or in part without the prior written VOLUME XXXVll WINTER permission of the Lycoming County H.istorical Society, 858 West Specie! Edition Fourth Street, Williamsport, PA 17701-5824;717-326-3326. NUMBER TWO 1997/98 The paintings, sculpture, and fur- Stuart gained his interest in art niture collected by William Budd Stuart from his mother, Laura VanNess Stuart (1866-1951)reveal much about the appre (1833-1926),who was an accomplished ciation of art in Williamsport at the turn of artist and teacher at her Williamsport stu this century. Stuart's taste, formed in this dio and at the Dickinson Seminary (now (fill)he Park Home collection small but lively city of lumber and mil- Lycoming College). By 1858, she was a lionaires among the forests and farmland of paintings, sculpture and antiques faculty member teaching painting and has long been a fixture in of north-central Pennsylvania, was proba- drawing at the co-educational boarding Williamsport though rarely on pub- bly no different from that of his fellow citi- lic view. The presentexhibition school. In addition to Painting and zens. He favored naturalistically ren- offersan opportunityto display a Drawing, Dickinson Seminary offered dered scenesof landscape and genre; his selection of the Park Home pieces, these courses: Moral Philosophy and and to make this collection more interest also included ltalianate vistas and Belies Lettres; Mathematics; Ancient and familiar to the community. We the mildly exotic. would like to thank warmly those Modern Languages; Natural Science; who have helped make this exhibi- Stuart gathered pictures that often Instrumental and Vocal Music; featured the natural drama of land and tion possible: SamHoff, James Penmanship and Book Keeping Douthat, Mrs. Ruth, and Tina sea, sculpture that was pleasing and deco Lorson. Providing students with academic sub- rative, and furniture that was comfortable, jects, music and art, Dickinson Seminary Our research into aspects of stylish, and durable. In time, thesepieces offered an integrated curriculum, one that the collection was made easier by would furnish the Park Home (opened many. We gratefully acknowledge seems remarkably current in its range 1940), a long-term boarding home where the efforts of Sandy Rife and the from literature, language,math and sci- many Williamsport ladies spent their later staff of the Lycoming County ence to the arts. After her marriage to Historical Museum, the staff at the years. The residents enjoyed these gra Eugene V. Stuart (before 1863), she bore James V. Brown Library, Rebecca cious adornments. The pair of Roesen four children, and continued to teach at Burke and the Williamsport/ still-life paintings decorated the dining Lycoming Arts Council, Janet room, and the bronzes of [)avid and the Seminary; her husband (died 1891) Hurlbert and the staff at the was a photographer. They lived on East Snowdenlibrary of Lycoming Psychestoodinthe parlor. Third Street, and maintained a photogra- College, Sandra Stelts and Charles The Schenck Sf7zg/eSheep offered Mann of the Special Collections, phy workshop on West Third. pastoral possibilities to visiting clergy. The Pennsylvania State University, and Samuel Dornsife. Others who The stormy sea and landscapes, by At the age of 13, Budd Stuart went offered assistance are Brian Artim, Moran, Schenck, and Verboeckhoven, to work in a logging company; he later built his fortune on motor oil and real Kari Bucknor, Bridget and Heinz reminded thoseinside that they were for Henisch, Kristi Hoover, Mandy tunate to be sheltered from threatening estate. In 1902,he married Mary Trafford, McCaulley, Jason Shipley, Robert weather. The WomanFeedftzg Three who left no children at her untimely death B. Simon, and Terry Wild. And thanks too, to the curators of the Ch//aren, by Ortlieb, might have brought in 1918. His collecting activities probably exhibition, Amy Golahny, Robert E. feelings of relief that their years of tending were well under way by the 1890s;his Kane Jr., and Roger Shipley, who childrenwere past. Brown'sView of fhe taste in paintings is hardly progressive, also prepared this issue of the Bay of Naplesconveyed the glory of Italy, but reflects his interestsin the land as an Journal of the Lycoming County and served to recall to the residents their Historical Society. arena for human cultivation, in the sea as a own travels to the continent. Hamilton's potentially dangerous place, and in the ScenePom fhe,Arabian Nfghfs evoked the ordinary pursuits of life. P spell-binding stories of the Orient. 3 Highlights of the Collection Undoubtedly among the best known paintings in the collection are the two stunning Roesenstill lifes. One is a display of lush blooms with a basket of plums and other fruit, and the other, a two-tiered table with baskets of peaches and raspberries, sliced melons and orange, and cascading grapes. As an invitation to the viewer to partake of the fruit, some is cut and ready to eat; auld, as an offer of drink, a glass of water, with a lemon\floating in it, is prepared Complementing one another in size and arrangement, these grand canvasestypify the artist's contribution to the monumentalstill life which he helpedto makepopular in the United States around the middle of the nineteenth century. Roesenprobably had a book of drawings, made from life, of the various fruit and flowers that flourished at different seasons.He combined these motifs in a variety of compositions. In this, he emulated the Dutch and Flemish still-life painters of the Baroque age, who were interested above all in creatijlg images that surpassed nature in permanenceand variety of blooms: thesepaintings presentedin art what was impos- sible in nature. Technically,too, Roesenworked in the tradition of Netherlandish still-life paint- ing, for he emphasizedrich colors, luminous glazing, and watery rejections. Born in Cologne, Germany, around 1814,Roesen probably trained as a painter of porcelain; he came to New York in 1848;after a few years he moved west, and by 1860 settled in Williamsport. There he was successfulas a painter of still lifes and possibly a few portraits. Unfortunately,the recordsof his life in Williamsport do not continue after 1872,when he is presumed to have moved on The largest group of pictures in the Park Home collection concerns landscape and farm animals. Of these, the earliest and most highly finished in its technique is Verboeckhoven's ComilzgStorm of 1854. Extremely successful as one of the foremost painters in Brussels and Severin Roesen (1814-1872), Stf/ZLife with Fr f f. Signed. 36" x 51". Oil on Canvas. instrumental in establishing the Musee de Bruxelles, he won prizes and major commissions dur- ing the 1820s,1830s, and 1840s;his highesthonor was a gold medalof the ParisSalon of 1855 His meticulous, highly polished style was distinctive, and noted by critics, including Baudelaire, who remarked that his paintings were "astonishing, glassy..." in their effect. His early special- ization in farm animals led him to place animals in circumstances which conveyed some drama; he showed how the herdsman's inattentiveness might encourage the straying of some of the flock, or how animals reactedto the threat of stormy weather. The Park Home canvasis one of a number of paintings of flocks frightened by impending rain. As the herdsman leads his sheep away from the advancing wind and clouds, he glances back in trepidation; the sheep take on a rangeof personalities. Foremostare the ewe and her two lambs, who are not only the most brightly spot-lit of the flock, but alsoquite agitated. After 1860,Verboeckhoven's art was con- sidered out of fashion, and his work was eclipsed by the new developments of Realism and Impressionism In contrastto the contrived stormy drama of Verboeckhoven'ssheep, the Europeanfarm sceneis shown unpretentiously by Van Marcke, Voltz, and Jacquin. Active in the later nine- teenth-century, these artists applied paint in a looser style, one influenced by French develop ments. Their unsentimental cows and sheep behave without regard to the viewer's presence. Schenck, a[)amish painter who specia]ized in anima]s, painted the true trauma of sheep caught in a sudden snow squall with no hope of imminent rescue. As the sheep huddle together for warmth, the ewes protect their young. Even the shepherd and dog, as tossed in the wind as the sheep, offer no guidance for escape. The seemingly casual American landscape with sheep or cattle is represented by the Pennsylvania artists Little and Craig, whose interests in farm ai\imals are overshadowed by their fascination with sky, light, and forest.
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