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The Walpole Society 26-C - FEATURE - Part V of V Good Fellows: The Walpole Society by Jeanne Schinto Photos courtesy the Walpole Society “Looking toward strengthening the society’s prospects in the future, I feel that it is appropriate for the membership to act to insure our relevance and assure that we continue to enjoy the most loyal, enthusiastic, and uniquely qualified membership in the Walpole Society’s next century.” — Jared I. Edwards, chairman of the Walpole Society 1992-2013, in a memorandum to all members, May 21, 20101 he members of the Walpole Society, an extraordi- a 13th-century Pueblo narily exclusive men’s club founded in 1910 and farm occupied by Tdevoted to Americana, visited Princeton, New descendants of Don Jersey, in the spring of 1995. The committee in charge Felipe Gutiérrez, recip- of arrangements consisted of Walpoleans John A. Her- ient of a township grant deg (Princeton class of 1959), Peter Manigault (1950), in 1704. The Minges Richard H. Randall Jr. (1948), John Wilmerding (a pro- had bought the prop- fessor of art history at the university), and H. Richard erty in 1952 in order Dietrich III (a parent of a member of the class of 1997). to accommodate their The group was mandated to set an itinerary for the other growing collection of 25 members of the club, and except for one notable Hispanic New Mexi- excursion, they filled it with the kinds of things the Wal- can artifacts. (They had poleans usually did on their twice yearly weekend trips since sold the place to to see public and private collections and other places of the city of Albuquer- note. que, and it was being They ate a formal dinner at Drumthwacket. Built in managed and operated 1835 for Charles Smith Olden, who later became the by the Albuquerque 28th governor of New Jersey, it is today the governor’s Museum at the time of official residence. After dinner, over brandy, the Walpo- the Walpoleans’ visit.) leans conducted their business meeting in the house’s The next morning the library. They visited another historic house too. Called clubmen went even Morven, it was the pre-Revolutionary home of Decla- deeper into a “foreign” Some Walpoleans from the earliest days of the club. ration of Independence signer Richard Stockton. It had culture, when they been the governor’s mansion before Drumthwacket; it motored 60 miles west of Albuquerque to the Pueblo of Osgood was saying the very same thing in his own way. now belongs to the New Jersey State Museum. They Acoma, where its Native American governor gave them In the first decade of the 21st century the men took also visited Wilmerding’s house, which was hung with more trips to places they had never been before together, his collection of paintings by Bingham, Peto, Homer, Then the Walpoleans took including Minneapolis-St. Paul, Santa Barbara, Salt Lane, Heade, Bierstadt, and Church, as well as draw- Lake City, Detroit, and Fort Worth. On the Minnesota ings of Mount Desert Island, Maine, and other seaside a left turn, so to speak. sojourn, they saw buildings designed by Louis Sullivan, views by various Luminists. And they went to the Fire- the Saarinens, and Frank O. Gehry, respectively; they stone Library, where a private exhibition had been set also took in a collection of early 20th-century paintings, up for them. It included printed letters by Amerigo Ves- along with one of 18th-century Connecticut furniture, pucci, the Eliot Indian Bible, and the earliest American the latter assuring that they would keep up their New woodcut portrait of Richard Mather, the Colonial min- England Colonial chops. In California, a different kind ister who was Cotton Mather’s grandfather. “The room of colonial arts collection—a Spanish one—and a mis- was also equipped with excellent sherry and Madeira,” sion were among the highlights. In Utah, there was yet wrote the designated scribe, who published his report in another first as they discovered places even Walpoleans the Note Book, the club’s collective journal that has been couldn’t get into. The interior spaces of the Salt Lake published annually (sometimes biannually) for members Temple were closed to non-Mormons (only member Jon- since 1926.2 athan L. Fairbanks qualified). In Michigan, they saw the Then the Walpoleans took a left turn, so to speak. original Ford Motor Car Company factory, the Detroit They were transported to a converted warehouse, the Institute of Arts, Cranbrook House and Gardens, and the home of Michael Graves. The Robert Schirmer Profes- Cranbrook Art Museum. sor of Architecture at Princeton University, Graves had In Texas, they toured the Amon Carter Museum of been one of the legendary modernists known as the New American Art, designed by Philip Johnson in 1961. They York Five. Later, in the 1980s, he had become one of were accompanied by Ruth Carter Stevenson, daughter architecture’s most celebrated postmodernists. When the of its founder and namesake. The black-tie dinner took Walpoleans arrived at his door, he was just a few years place there. Sunday morning they visited Stevenson’s away from entering the next phase of his career, his well- residence, built in 1957 as an homage to Frank Lloyd known association with Target, for which he designed Wright’s Hollyhock House in Los Angeles. They also consumer goods such as teakettles and pepper mills. went to the home of private collector Anne Bass. That “In the 1990s, his partnership with Target defined structure was designed by Paul Rudolph in 1970; the America’s expectation that great design should be avail- grounds, designed by Russell Page, were laid out in the able to everyone,” says the website devoted to his archi- 1980s; and the artworks hanging on the walls had been tectural legacy ( www.michaelgraves.com). The alterna- Until their visit to Princeton in 1995, the previous time the painted by Frank Stella, Morris Louis, and other contem- tive view of his Target era was expressed after his 2015 Walpole Society had been there together was in the fall of porary artists. Among them were portraits of Bass and death by Peter Eisenman, another member of the New 1953, when they had a “preprandial symposium” on Septem- her daughters by Andy Warhol—the equivalent of John York Five.“[Michael] chose to go populist and commer- ber 18, Samuel Johnson’s birthday, at Adams House on the Singer Sargent’s “swagger” portraits of his day? That cial,” Eisenman told the New York Times.3 But even that university campus. This is the invitation to the occasion—a trip also included an invitation to dine with Alice Walton probably didn’t matter to the Walpoleans, who seemed pre-dinner cocktail party where, given the mid-century at her Rocking W Ranch, near Mineral Wells, where she determined to broaden themselves aesthetically in the date, hard liquor no doubt flowed. Today the alcohol served arranged for the men to see a cutting-horse demonstra- closing years of the 20th century. As nonjudgmentally at society functions is apt to be white wine in moderation. tion, her other great passion besides collecting art. described by the Note Book scribe, the dwelling was a The Walpole Society’s first visit to the region of the “severely modern setting for a collection of bronzes and a talk about himself and his tribe. country known as the “Big Middle” was prompted by the classical antiquities, set off by the blond veneer of Bie- Back home, Walpolean William Bradford Osgood of opening of Walton’s Crystal Bridges Museum of Amer- dermeier furniture.”4 Boston reflected on the trip in a serious mood, writing an ican Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, in 2012. They were The Walpoleans chose to go to Santa Fe and Albuquer- eloquent report of his own for the Note Book—he who guided through it by its director and two curators before que two years later. New York, New Haven, and Newport had been deemed too young to have joined the group 40 it opened for the day. That evening, as the men assem- had long been their more typical destinations. Now here years earlier in 1957. “What was remarkable about the bled in their hotel’s lobby decked out in their traditional they were in New Mexico. “Walpoleans found Old Albu- trip for those of us who have seldom strayed from the black tie and silver gorgets and waiting for their trans- querque to be a foreign place,” recounted the Note Book confines of the East was sensing the vastness and time- portation, another hotel guest guessed correctly that their scribe in the same tongue-in-cheek manner that club lessness of the Southwestern landscape,” he said. “The dinner host was Walton. scribes have been favoring since the Note Book’s incep- long history of Indians and Hispanics in the West, their “What restaurant are you going to?” she asked them. tion.5 “A first exposure to an entire village seemingly pace of life, value systems, and cultural imprint helps We’re going to her house, the men replied. composed of adobe walls can be disarmingly novel and us see our own lives and traditions more clearly.... We “Wow!” she said. “You must be important.”9 enchanting,” he wrote archly of the Land of Enchant- returned home...energized by a broader perspective on In the new millennium, the Walpoleans have also taken ment.6 They got “an in-depth introduction to New Mex- our own country and its peoples. Perhaps we are now two trips abroad together. In 2001 they went to England, ican colonial life” at the adobe home of a new member, better advocates for the arts and for mankind.”7 where they visited many of the sites associated with their Ward Alan Minge, elected to the Walpole Society the Alice Winchester, Antiques magazine editor for 38 patron saint, Horace Walpole.
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