Curated by Janice La Motta

October 27 - December 30, 2018

RECEPTION Saturday, November 3, 4-6 PM

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Earle B. Winslow (1884-1969), The Woodstock Bus, c. 1930 oil on canvas, WAAM, Gift of the Estate of Zenna W. London

Alexander Brook (1898-1980) View from Ohayo Mountain over Wittenberg Road, 1925 oil on canvas Goodwin / Mosenfelder Collection

Hermon More (1887-1968) Whittenberg Hills, 1920-30 oil on canvas Goodwin / Mosenfelder Collection

Marianne Appel (1913-1988) Maverick House, c. 1940 gouache on illustration board WAAM, Gift of Sarah Greer Mecklem and Merrill Mecklem Piera 1988-10-01

Theodore Roszak (1907-1981) Woodstock Through the Window, c. 1929 crayon lithograph WAAM, Gift of Janis Conner and Joel Rosenkranz 2004-20-05

Emil Ganso (1895-1941) Studio, Old Saw Mill, 1935 wood engraving WAAM, Gift of Janis Conner and Joel Rosenkranz, NY 2017-07-01

Philip Guston (1913-1980) Ref’s Back Porch, 1947 pen & black ink in paper WAAM, Gift of Karl and Lillian Fortess 1985-14-01

Pele deLappe (1916-2007) Maverick Theater, 1931 graphite WAAM, Karl E. Fortess and Aileen B. Cramer Purchase Funds 2012-01-03

Arnold Wiltz (1889-1937) Winter Landscape, 1920s oil on canvas WAAM, Gift of Olin Dows 1973-07-03

Julia Leaycraft (1885-1960) Village in Winter (Woodstock), c. 1940 oil on canvas WAAM, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar C. Leaycraft 1982-10-01

Earle B. Winslow (1884-1969) The Woodstock Bus, c. 1930 oil on canvas WAAM, Gift of the Estate of Zenna W. London 1990-04-01

Georgina Klitgaard (1893-1976) Church in Willow, n.d. oil on canvas Goodwin/Mosenfelder Collection

Peggy Bacon (1895-1987) Clams and Clodhoppers, 1933 drypoint WAAM, Gift of Gioja Webster 1988-08-01

Arnold Blanch (1896-1968) Interior Scene with Lucile at Piano, 1920s ink & charcoal pencils WAAM, Permanent Collection Purchase Fund 2012-01-25

Pele deLappe (1916-2007) Woodstock (cabin studio interior), 1932 graphite WAAM, Karl E. Fortess and Aileen B. Cramer Purchase Funds 2012-01-05

Eugenie Gershoy (1901-1986) Maverick Sketch Class, c. 1935 ink WAAM, Gift of Peter Jones from the estate of Jane Jones 2006-17-01

Henry Lee McFee (1886-1953) Interior, 1929 graphite WAAM, Gift of Alice Wardwell Tripp 2007-07-01

Eugene Ludins (1904-1996) Maverick Studio, 1931 oil on canvas WAAM, Gift of Peter Jones 2013-03-01

John McClellan (1908-1986) Woodstock Christmas, 1936 lithograph WAAM, Gift of Suzan McClellan Whiting 2000-09-03

John McClellan (1908-1986) Woodstock Picnic, 1936 lithograph WAAM, Gift of Suzan McClellan Whiting 2000-09-01

Austin Mecklem (1894-1951) Vacation [Sawkill Creek, Woodstock], 1939 oil on masonite WAAM, Gift of Sarah Greer Mecklem and Merrill Mecklem Piera 2000-01-01

Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1889-1953) Untitled (Bather I), c. 1930s photograph WAAM, Gift of Douglas C. James 2016-07-01 Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1889-1953) Untitled (Two Bathers), c. 1930s photograph WAAM, Gift of Douglas C. James 2016-07-03

Harvey Emrich (1884-1972) Summer Haven, Woodstock, c. 1910s oil on canvas board WAAM, Gift of Joseph A. DePaul 2001-03-02 Sally Michel Avery (1902-2003) Mountain Lake [Cooper Lake], 1972 oil on canvas WAAM, Gift of Eric Goldman 1998-21-02

Our Town: Images of Woodstock

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John McClellan (1908-1986), Woodstock Picnic, 1936, lithograph, WAAM Gift of Suzan McClellan Whiting

Our Town: Images of Woodstock

Our Town: Images of Woodstock highlights the significant holdings in the WAAM’s Permanent Collection of imagery that depicts Woodstock and its environs along with supplemented works from private collections. Artists’ studio interiors, village architecture, and scenic locales such as Cooper Lake and Overlook Mountain are represented in a diverse selection of paintings, drawings, prints and photographs.

There are images that depict specific locales and those that provide classic images of Woodstock and the surrounding area. Marianne Appel’s gouache on board titled, Maverick House, c. 1940, is a charming rendition of a simple house on the Maverick colony during the winter season with smoke flowing from the chimney and stacks of wood surrounding the home. The winter season is also represented in

a marvelous snow scene of the village green in Julia Leaycraft’s Village in Winter (Woodstock) - a bustling scene of cars and town folk navigating the snow-filled streets of the village.

A featured work from WAAM’s Permanent Collection is Earle B. Winslow’s oil painting, The Woodstock Bus, 1921, that depicts the backside of artist Wilna Hervey as she boards the quaint town taxi. In his biography Living Large, on the artist and her companion Nan Mason, Joseph P. Eckhardt likens the image to scenes of the Powerful Katrinka (portrayed by Wilna Hervey) boarding the Toonerville Trolley, filmed the same year.

The artist Hermon More (1887-1968) and Alexander Brook (1898-1980) were regular painting buddies and the exhibition includes a wonderful representation of the same vista painted by each artist. The paintings depict the view from the ridge of More’s home on the slopes of Ohayo Mountain by two artists who often worked side by side.

Several prints and drawings in the exhibition reflect the convivial community of the artists who lived and worked in Woodstock in the early decades of the 20th century as in Peggy Bacon’s Clams and Clodhoppers, dated 1933, Arnold Blanch’s print of the 1920s, Interior Scene with Lucile at Piano and Eugenie Gershoy’s, Maverick Sketch Class, c. 1935. The artist’s studio was also a popular theme of many Woodstock artists and Maverick Studio, 1931 by Eugene Ludins is a marvelous example of an intimate and personal interior and having recently been conserved, shows off Ludins’ lively brushwork and bright palette.

Depictions of Woodstock, both real and the imagined, coexist in the exhibition and several works provide an imaginative look at our town, such as John McClellan’s lithograph, Woodstock Picnic, with its fantastically exaggerated and evocative landscape. Similarly, in Philip

Neil McDowell Ives (1892-1946) Cooper Lake, c. 1940 oil on canvas WAAM, Gift of Peggy Ives Cole 1974-08-01

Hermon More (1887-1968) View of Woodstock, 1920-30 oil on canvas Mosenfelder/Goodwin Collection

Earle B. Winslow (1884-1969) Woodstock Barns, 1927 lithograph WAAM, Gift of Janis Conner and Joel Rosenkranz 2013-05-04

Charles Rosen (1878-1950) Barns and Apple Tree, 1932 conté crayon WAAM, Gift of the Estate of Nan Mason 1982-05-28

John Pike (1917-1979) Woodstock Artists Association, n.d. watercolor WAAM, Gift of an Anonymous donor 1996-26-01

Polly Kline (1903-2004) Woodstock Post Office, 1930s graphite WAAM, Gift of the Estate of Polly Eddy Kline 2006-16-03

Ernest Fiene (1894-1965) Woodstock Road crayon lithograph WAAM, Karl Fortess Purchase Fund 2002-01-01

Konrad Cramer (1888-1963) Early Woodstock, c. 1940-50 gelatin silver print WAAM, Gift of Howard and Ellen Greenberg 2010-13-51

Konrad Cramer (1888-1963) Parade in Woodstock, c. 1930s gelatin silver print WAAM, Gift of Howard and Ellen Greenberg 2010-13-67

Bolton Brown (1865-1936) Woodstock Scene, 1932 wash, ink & pencil WAAM, Gift of Karl and Lillian Fortess 1985-14-05

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Guston’s ink on paper, Ref’s Back Porch, a surrealist tangle of debris suggests the detritus of the artist Anton Refregier’s back porch.

The natural beauty of Woodstock, its forests, swimming holes and lakes, were not only popular recreational locales but also the subject of many works represented in the WAAM’s Permanent Collection. Cooper Lake, by Neil Ives, offers a majestic view of this much painted and photographed landmark. Austin Mecklem’s, Vacation [Sawkill Creek, Woodstock] captures the natural and pristine beauty of one of the town’s many swimming holes. A more intimate view of this experience is found in Harvey Emrich’s small painting of a woman resting atop a boulder in Summer Haven, Woodstock and in the two black and white photographs of bathers by Yasuo Kuniyoshi. One of the bathers is identified as the artist Rosella Hartman.

I hope Our Town: Images of Woodstock offers a reverie into the many fond locales of Woodstock and the many ways in which the members of this community have enjoyed and embraced this beloved town.

Janice La MottaExecutive Director /Curator of the Permanent Collection

Images (from top): Marianne Appel (1913-1988), Maverick House, c. 1940 gouache on illustration board, WAAM, Gift of Sarah Greer Mecklem and Merrill Mecklem Piera

Austin Mecklem (1894-1951), Vacation [Sawkill Creek, Woodstock], 1939, oil on masonite, WAAM, Gift of Sarah Greer Mecklem and Merrill Mecklem Piera

Sally Michel Avery (1902-2003), Mountain Lake [Cooper Lake], 1972, oil on canvas, WAAM, Gift of Eric Goldman

Julia Leaycraft (1885-1960), Village in Winter (Woodstock), c. 1940, oil on canvas, WAAM, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar C. Leaycraft

Theodore Roszak (1907-1981), Woodstock Through the Window, c. 1929, crayon lithograph, WAAM, Gift of Janis Conner and Joel Rosenkranz