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2024-03-04, 500, “Orange”, 1971

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Digitized Folders from the Yale Peruvian Expedition Papers (MS 664)

Digitized folders: All 26 folders of material from this archival collection that Amy Cox Hall cites in her endnotes (labeled “Notes” on pages 311-315 of the article you read) have been digitized for your use. You can access each folder from the links provided below. The structure of the arrangement of this collection listed below is mapped to the online finding aid so you can see what other materials related to the digitized folders below are in the collection.

Note: Access to the digitized folders stored on Google Drive works best if you use the Google Chrome web browser.

Series II. Correspondence, 1909-1925

Box 5

Folder 2: General correspondence, January 4-21, 1911

Folder 6: General correspondence, March 16-21, 1911

Folder 13:  General correspondence, April 4-10, 1911

Folder 15:  General correspondence, April 21-24, 1911

Folder 16:  General correspondence, April 25-30, 1911

Box 6

Folder 34:  General correspondence, January 13-31, 1912

Folder 38:  General correspondence, March 11-15, 1912

Folder 40:  General correspondence, March 19-24, 1912

Box 7

Folder 58:  General correspondence, May 6-8, 1912

Folder 71:  General correspondence, October 21-25, 1912

Box 10

Folder 126:  General correspondence, March 19-22, 1914

Box 11

Folder 152:  General correspondence, February 1-6, 1915

Folder 161:  General correspondence, May 3-18, 1915

Box 15

Folder 238: Select correspondence, National Geographic Society, May-December 1912

Folder 247: Select correspondence, National Geographic Society, January 1914

Box 16

Folder 263: Select correspondence, National Geographic Society, May 1-June 7, 1916

Folder 285: Select correspondence, Yale University, Treasurer’s Office, September 1915-February 1916

Series III. Journals and Notebooks, 1911-1915

Box 19

Folder 17: Bumstead, Albert H., journal and notebook, June-September 1912

Folder 20: Erdis, Ellwood C., journal (typewritten copy), July-November 1912

Box 20

Folder 33: Bingham, Hiram, journal-letters, April-May 1915

Box 21

Folder 38: Bingham, Hiram, notebook: archaeology, zoology, botany, circa 1914-1915

Box 23

Folder 55: Hasbrouck, Joseph J., notebook, 1914-1915

Series IV. Reports and Articles, 1911-1921

Box 24

Folder 10: Eaton, George F., “Indian Graves at Machu Picchu,” 1912

Box 25

Folder 23: Heald, Kenneth C., Manuscript notes on the 1847 map of Choquiquirau [Choquiquirao] district drawn by the French vice-consul in Lima, Leonce Angrand, 1912

Box 26

Folder 26: Little, Joseph P., “Peru, 1912-1914″ typescript

Box 27

Folder 46: Heller, Edmund, manuscript and typescript drafts of an account of Heller’s work on the expedition, 1914-1915

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Yale Peruvian Expedition Papers (MS 664). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library

Link to the online finding aid for this collection in Archives at Yale

Overview: Correspondence, administrative records, scientific reports, writings, and illustrative material on the three expeditions to Peru sponsored by Yale University between 1911-1915. The most celebrated discoveries, the finding of Machu Picchu and of Vitcos, the last capital of the Incas, were studied during the expeditions by scientific specialists who were drawn principally from the Yale faculty. The papers include their diaries, manuscripts, and published reports of their work, as well as the writings of Hiram Bingham III, professor of Latin American history at Yale, and leader of the expeditions.

Digitized folders: All 26 folders of material from this archival collection that Amy Cox Hall cites in her endnotes (labeled “Notes” on pages 311-315 of the article you read) have been digitized for your use. You can access each folder from the links provided below. The structure of the arrangement of this collection listed below is mapped to the online finding aid so you can see what other materials related to the digitized folders below are in the collection.

Note: Access to the digitized folders stored on Google Drive works best if you use the Google Chrome web browser.

Yale Peruvian Expedition Papers (MS 664)

Series II. Correspondence, 1909-1925

Box 5

Folder 2: General correspondence, January 4-21, 1911

Folder 6: General correspondence, March 16-21, 1911

Folder 13:  General correspondence, April 4-10, 1911

Folder 15:  General correspondence, April 21-24, 1911

Folder 16:  General correspondence, April 25-30, 1911

Box 6

Folder 34:  General correspondence, January 13-31, 1912

Folder 38:  General correspondence, March 11-15, 1912

Folder 40:  General correspondence, March 19-24, 1912

Box 7

Folder 58:  General correspondence, May 6-8, 1912

Folder 71:  General correspondence, October 21-25, 1912

Box 10

Folder 126:  General correspondence, March 19-22, 1914

Box 11

Folder 152:  General correspondence, February 1-6, 1915

Folder 161:  General correspondence, May 3-18, 1915

Box 15

Folder 238: Select correspondence, National Geographic Society, May-December 1912

Folder 247: Select correspondence, National Geographic Society, January 1914

Box 16

Folder 263: Select correspondence, National Geographic Society, May 1-June 7, 1916

Folder 285: Select correspondence, Yale University, Treasurer’s Office, September 1915-February 1916

Series III. Journals and Notebooks, 1911-1915

Box 19

Folder 17: Bumstead, Albert H., journal and notebook, June-September 1912

Folder 20: Erdis, Ellwood C., journal (typewritten copy), July-November 1912

Box 20

Folder 33: Bingham, Hiram, journal-letters, April-May 1915

Box 21

Folder 38: Bingham, Hiram, notebook: archaeology, zoology, botany, circa 1914-1915

Box 23

Folder 55: Hasbrouck, Joseph J., notebook, 1914-1915

Series IV. Reports and Articles, 1911-1921

Box 24

Folder 10: Eaton, George F., “Indian Graves at Machu Picchu,” 1912

Box 25

Folder 23: Heald, Kenneth C., Manuscript notes on the 1847 map of Choquiquirau [Choquiquirao] district drawn by the French vice-consul in Lima, Leonce Angrand, 1912

Box 26

Folder 26: Little, Joseph P., “Peru, 1912-1914″ typescript

Box 27

Folder 46: Heller, Edmund, manuscript and typescript drafts of an account of Heller’s work on the expedition, 1914-1915

Amy Cox Hall’s 2017 book, published by University of Texas Press. The article we read for today, published in 2012, was a precursor to this book:

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Lablanc was shaking his head.  “I had dreamed that some important papers of state had been hiding in there all these years.  Maybe something that would explain where all the remaining manuscripts from the Cathedral's collection were stored.  The 13th century catalog includes perhaps several hundred artifacts that I have never been able to locate.  I have always just believed they had been destroyed in the bombing, or stolen.  After all, across all those centuries it is a wonder anything is left intact!"

"We are very grateful to you, Monsieur Leblanc, for helping us so kindly.  What will happen to this box now?"  I was holding the book in my hand, it was small, the kind of notebook that could be used for keeping records or short entries of some kind.

"This box does not appear in any catalog that I have ever discovered.  So there is no legal basis for the Cathedral to claim ownership.  How the box found its way into these rooms is completely unknown to me.  Since you seem to have some knowledge of it, I will presume you have some right of ownership and can transfer it to you."

"We are so grateful for your help professor," Elisia said as she threw me a quick smile.

"There's a form for this purpose.  Let me dig around my desk, I'm sure it is here in this drawer."

Leblanc pulled open the drawers of his desk, one after another.  On the bottom right he dug through a pile of papers and pulled out a bundle of small yellow cards.

"Yes, this is it.  Just fill in your name and some contact information.  That should do it.  Let's call this object the Eaton Mystery Box!"

I handed the card to Lebanc and he filed it on the top of the bundle and place it back in his bottom desk drawer.  I wondered how many years it would be before someone would ever need to transfer an object again.  Such is the way of an archive, years after years go by and then suddenly a frozen moment in time reappears in an entirely new light, in the sounds and atmosphere of a completely different world.

"It is late, we have detained you longer than we should have.  I can't tell you how much I appreciate your help.  I think we all had hoped for some kind of mysterious treasure, but even this small notebook will be a treasure to me as I learn more of the journeys my great-grandfather took so long ago.  Good night and the best to you!"

Elisia and I stepped out into the square and walked together back towards our room.

"I think we have some reading to do tonight," she said. "I can't wait to see what is in the book!"

"Exactly!  But let's grab a quick dinner at the cafe first.  All this ancient mystery stuff is making me feel like I haven't had a meal for at least a century!"

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Three months back in the UK

This time three months ago was our last night in South Africa after a three month stay in Cape Town. It was an amazing and life changing experience, and I still can’t quite believe it happened. I came home changed in many ways - my faith was challenged in a positive way, as well as my use (and waste)of water, and how much more could be recycled. I made new friends and renewed old friendships, all of which I treasured, and discovered a love of trail running, especially in the dark.

So, three months on, what have we been doing and what impact have those challenges and experiences had on my life here in York, UK?

For a start, it was great to see family and friends again, and we’ve valued the time we’ve spent with them since coming back. On our first day back at home we attended our granddaughter’s 8th birthday party, and it’s been great to share in the lives of the grandchildren, taking them to the pantomime, having them over for sleepovers, etc. We also met up with Sammi and other family members for her birthday, and she and Heather came to visit us when we went to Willersley Castle for the weekend with Joe, Lorna and Toby. And we’ve had the privilege of attending Mark and Steph’s wedding, a fantastic and very special event, and then having the children stay with us for a few days whilst their parents went away on honeymoon.  It was a shock to be doing the school run etc again, but we really enjoyed the time the children were with us.

Whilst I went straight back to work the day after we returned to the UK (the jury’s still out on whether that was a good or bad move) I tried not to rush straight back into all of the activities I was previously involved with, choosing to take some time to reassess where I might be needed going forward. Whilst this has been a welcome chance to have a bit of ‘me’ time and to try out new and different things, not immediately getting caught up in lots of busyness, it’s meant that I’ve felt somewhat detached from church and community life. I was glad to get back to the Aroma craft evenings and to explore some new ways of using craft to provide a safe space for people. I’ve also enjoyed having time to read, and for Rob and I to go on some lovely walks in the beautiful Yorkshire countryside, and we’ve definitely appreciated being able to walk around all over the place at any time of the day or evening without having to worry too much about security. But it’s been difficult to ‘slot back in’ to life in Haxby. We may look the same on the outside, but we are very different on the inside, having experienced life differently, and we want to make sure we process those differences and learn to find our place here as different people, not necessarily always doing things as we used to do before.

Having done so much running in South Africa, it’s been great to start regularly attending Easingwold Running Club training sessions on Thursday evenings, making new friends and starting to feel fitter. And it’s been fab to see how the Haxby and Wigginton Methodist parkrun group has grown and how much people are enjoying and benefitting from their Saturday morning fix. Rob and I have also done some parkrun tourism (Dalby Forest, Long Eaton, York, Fountains Abbey, Bakewell and New Earswick) as well as our regular Heslington course. Rob completed his 50th parkrun on the last Saturday in December. It seemed fitting that it was in Long Eaton, where our first house was and where we lived happily for the first 8 years of our married life. And we started the new year with a parkrun double, running the York course at 9am (with Rob getting a PB) and the Heslington course at 10.30am! This Saturday I had the privilege of running with Joe at his first 5k parkrun, which he says he enjoyed and wants to come again.

We’ve also done a couple of 10k trail races with the running club, and we’ve done three headtorch night trail runs - two in Dalby Forest and one at Castle Howard. Nothing can compare with the exhilaration and sense of achievement of completing a hilly trail run in the dark, not to mention the spectacular stars visible in the night sky (if the clouds deign to lift, and we dare to look up rather than watch out for tree roots, rocks, etc on the path!). We first experienced night trail running at Groot Constantia in Cape Town and entered the UK races while we were still in South Africa because we so enjoyed the experience. 

In terms of faith, I’ve met with Paula, spiritual accompanist, on three occasions and she’s been brilliant at helping me to talk and think through some of the experiences I had in South Africa, and also my sense of grief at leaving friends behind, and my feeling of confusion at where God might use me going forward. I’m still work in progress, but I’m so grateful for her wisdom and support, as well as for my friends in the PSD core group, and several other close friends. I think the time in South Africa showed me that God can use us in unexpected ways, so I hope I’m open to new challenges - the discernment is a bit more tricky though!

As I frequently mentioned in my blogs when we were in South Africa, last year Cape Town experienced its worst drought in 25 years, with fears that they would actually reach Day Zero where there was no water left. However, with rationing in place, very careful use of water, and some unseasonal rainfall the dams started to fill, although the water situation is still precarious. Whilst we were there we got used to only flushing the toilet when absolutely necessary, harvesting water in buckets when showering (and then using it to fill the cistern), only washing up once a day, only putting the washer on for a full load, wearing clothes a little longer than we might do at home, collecting grey water for the garden, etc, etc. Returning home we thought about how much clean potable water we must have wasted over the years and decided to adopt some of the practices we learned in South Africa as just because the UK isn’t experiencing drought it doesn’t mean we should continue to use as much as we like. So we now harvest water in a bucket when showering, and don’t automatically flush the loo every time. We also wait until we have a full load for the washer, and we’ve had a water meter fitted. So far we have saved £30 a month and expect it to probably be more as we continue to adapt, especially as we are in the process of having three water butts fitted to harvest rainwater.

Another thing we heard about in South Africa was Ecobricks. These are plastic bottles filled with compressed non-recyclable flexible plastic which can then be used in a variety of ways. In some developing countries they are actually used as bricks for building houses. In the UK schools have built greenhouses and other garden structures with them. I’m planning to have a go at making stools for the grandchildren with mine. It’s been sobering to see how much plastic we accumulate and the next challenge is to try to reduce the amount we actually get/use in the first place. It’s also been great to see so many other people take up this idea, especially our grandchildren and their friends encouraging their schools to get involved.

Another project we have always been impressed with in Hout Bay in South Africa is the Original Teabag Company. It’s amazing to see what beautiful and creative items people can make from a used teabag! We visited the teabag place several times on our last visit and bought many of our Christmas presents from there. They are always short of dried used teabags so we now have lots of people saving them for us. Could be interesting getting them all through customs next time we visit, but it does illustrate the phrase ‘one man’s junk is another man’s treasure’.

It’s been fantastic to keep in touch with so many of our friends in South Africa, and we are very grateful for What’s App, Facebook and email. We’ve discovered how difficult it is to post/courier anything to our friends, so being able to keep in touch through messages and photos is great. We look forward to the parkrun updates from the Bowers and Gearys on a Saturday, and to hearing other things about their lives throughout the week, and I love receiving news from Debbie, Zukie and Ncumisa about the school work and Langa Fellowship. I long to be able to just call round and see them, or to meet up for parkrun and breakfast, but then I remember they’re 5,000 miles!

Looking forwards, Rob and I have booked to go and visit my niece in Valencia for a few days, and we are planning some more parkrun tourism involving weekends away. Monthly Aroma craft evenings are planned, and I’m still exploring other new craft initiatives. Rob and I have both signed up for several runs with the running club, including a 10 miler and a tough hilly trail run, which will test our new fitness! I’m hoping to get my trumpet out after a six month break and start playing in the church music group again, and also to go back to volunteering as a befriender for the Refugee Council.  We have also been invited to give several talks to local groups about our experience, and this year’s Haxby and Wigginton Scarecrow Festival will be supporting the Common Good organisation (whose projects we volunteered in). We also hope to host the Gearys for a visit later this year, and hope some of our other South African friends might come and visit before too long too. Added to this we will host different members of our family for weekends, and spend time with the children and grandchildren.  

Lent starts next week, a time when we remember Jesus spending 40 days in the wilderness, leading up to the Easter celebration of His resurrection.

As we continue to travel through our wilderness of uncertainty, we look forward with hope to Easter.  Maybe by then we will be involved in some new things, and maybe we will have more of a sense of God’s leading, or maybe we will still be searching, I don’t know. But what I do know is that we will try to seize the opportunities that come our way, hoping to make the best of them, and in doing so seeking to serve God and come to know Him better.

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2012-12-06, 500, “Untitled”

Bill Martin

Missing: 5

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Growing up as A Baby Boomer - Part 9

My normal schedule for updating my blog is 1 – 2 weeks. But then, being away for Christmas, and coming home and getting caught up makes the time just fly by.

I remember Christmas when we were growing up in the 50’s and 60’s. Back then I’m certain that Mother had a fixed amount that would be spent on each of the four kids. She most likely put aside a couple of dollars each week so that Christmas wouldn’t bankrupt us.

We each got a stocking filled with some candy, a pack of gum, a new toothbrush of course, and whatever she could find that could be bought for next to nothing. Typically there would be one main present, which would already be opened and placed beneath the tree. It was normally something a little larger than the other presents, and usually too big to really wrap up anyways. As we got older, the 4 kids would start buying presents for each other as well as for Mother and Dad.  I always got Mother something that was useful around the house. It may have been an appliance or a clock or something similar. Getting something for Dad was easier. A tie, or socks or a tie clip, anything but a hair product. No Combs or Brushes, no Vitalis or Brylcream.  You see dad has a receding hairline. It was basically receding down the back of his neck. He swore that it was caused by wearing hats, especially the covers he wore in the Air Force.

Now back in the 50’s, most men wore hats. They wore fedoras or other blocked hats with a full brim. There were no “ball caps” but other soft hats were worn as well. Business men wore Fedoras or Tribly Hats. Some wore Porkpie hats and others wore Straw hats. For leisure times, they may have worn Walking hats. Working class people typically wore a soft woolen hat. You can still buy these hats today on-line at places like http://vintagedancer.com/1950s/the-styles-of-1950s-mens-hats/

To Mother and Dad, it didn’t make any difference what we got them, a paper clip with a homemade card would have been enough for them, but that only works once or twice.

Christmas week was a whirlwind. The hardest part was Christmas morning until we were old enough to go to Midnight Mass the night before.  That meant that, once we got up on Christmas Morning, we didn’t have to stop part way through, get dressed and be off to the 9:00am Christmas Mass, where the priest that was giving the sermon would undoubtedly squeeze as much time as he could so that the people leaving the 9 o’clock Mass would be running into those coming to the 10:15am Mass. As the collection was always taken immediately after the sermon, one would think that the amount  of the collection would be inversely proportionate to the length of the sermon.  Some priest never learn.

The other big dent in Christmas morning was breakfast. Why would any one in their right mind, think that we wanted to stop opening presents or playing with those already opened, to eat breakfast. Mind you, our Dad was always the one to make Sunday or Christmas breakfast. So that meant that we all would get enough to carry us through to dinner. Lunch was not even an option back then.

As there were four of us kids, Mother always managed to host Christmas dinner (and Easter and all the other biggies). It made sense, in the early days, we really didn’t have a car and so everyone came to our house for dinner. My grandmother and grandfather, my Uncle Ed and my Aunts , Pat, Noreen, and sometimes Mary.  Some years we had an additional guest, usually one of the priests in Toronto that my parents knew, that somehow figured out how to have someone else let my mother know that the priest in question was going to be alone for Christmas.

Boxing day was a hectic day to say the least. That was the day that you took back all the presents that were the wrong size, or the wrong colour, or something you has three of already. All the major Department stores has their own gift boxes that were freely included in every gift that was bought at that store. You didn’t need a receipt, as long as you had the box, you could return it for exchange or refund. There were certain stores that were so customer satisfaction oriented, that they would let you return stuff that was bought at another store, rather that tick off a good customer. They would secretly call the store that they knew sold that product and asked what it was selling for before Christmas. Can you imagine that happening now. I remember my grandmother Catherine taking something back to Eatons that I know she had bought at Simpsons, and in fact, has the purchase receipt still in the box, and they simply gave her the amount that was on the receipt – no questions asked.  I think that those stores got together in a big warehouse in January and exchanged  all these items rather than make a customer look wrong.  Back in those time, the phrase “The Customer is always right” was more than just a slogan.

Sometime during the time between Christmas and New Years, we would all go and visit my Uncle Ken and his family. They lived down in the Beeches. It was great seeing  all our cousins and finding our what they had been up to since the last visit.

It’s funny how times have changed. Everyone would wish you a Merry Christmas, even the Jewish merchants. No one got offended – not even the atheists. There was nothing even close to being “Politically Correct”. The phrase didn’t really even exist. Everyone at that time knew that all the Politicians were corrupt so how could there be something called Politically correct. That would be an oxymoron. Like Military Intelligence. The two words couldn’t be used in the same sentence.

Even when we had grown up and had moved away, we were always home for Christmas.

Christmas was a special time for our family. No matter how good or bad the past year had been, Christmas was always special. The gifts we gave and the gifts we received were always given and received with love. You didn’t have to spend a fortune and no one cared how much something they got cost. Even a pair of socks were treasured because it was something new that you didn’t have the day before. As kids we learned that asking Santa for something extravagant never worked. We made a list as soon as we could write, and spent hours looking through the newspapers for ads that might be in the right price bracket to have a chance of getting it.  Our list contained the word “or” rather than the word “and” because we knew that if we got one big present and 4 or 5 smaller ones, it was a great year. We were never disappointed.

When I think of today and what people buy for their kids these days for Christmas, I realize that Christmas back then and Christmas today are nothing even close to each other. People who max out their Credit cards to buy all the kids what they ask for, and then spend the next 11 months paying them off,  need to rethink what Christmas is all about.

The next blog will start to get into more of the 60s . I do remember the 60’s and yes I WAS there.

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Inside incredible 'Aladdin's Cave' cottage where £50,000 of treasures were found

Inside incredible ‘Aladdin’s Cave’ cottage where £50,000 of treasures were found

The prized art collection was amassed by by Torquil Stewart and his late father Alastair, a member of the Royal Academy of Arts, in £1.75million Eaton Cottage in the upmarket village of Thames Ditton, Surrey Go to Source

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Opinion: Dusting off an art deco feminist treasure

NEW YORK — On a recent spring evening, two young women, Amore Pistorius, 27, and Garima Deopura, 28, took the elevator to the 26th floor of Beekman Tower, an Art Deco landmark building from 1928 a few blocks north of the United Nations.

When the doors opened, the women, both accountants at a private equity firm around the corner, were greeted by three double-height windows with delicate ironwork, a 24-foot pewter-cast bar with a glass inset holding curiosities from another era, and a mounted albino pheasant with its wings spread over a curated collection of spirits.

They were led to the terrace, with its 360-degree views of Manhattan, and took a seat on a red velvet-covered bench.

Both ordered the Bullet Proof, a photogenic play on a whiskey sour featuring rye, St. Germain, turmeric, lemon, chili and bitters with a foamy egg white that Pistorius had seen on Instagram. The two chatted about their families, dating, work gossip and what it’s like to live in New York — Pistorius is from South Africa, and Deopura moved to Manhattan in 2016 from California.

Whether they knew or it not, these women were continuing a legacy from 1928, when the Beekman Tower, then called the Panhellenic Tower, opened as a women’s clubhouse, dormitory and social hub for sorority sisters who had recently graduated and were moving to New York in record numbers to join the workforce.

In the years leading up to the Depression, it was increasingly common for women to have a gap between college and marriage, with many of them moving to the city for work, said Joanna Scutts, the author of “The Extra Woman: How Marjorie Hillis Led a Generation of Women to Live Alone and Like It.”

The rooftop bar was originally a solarium, which provided a common space for the building’s female residents to relax — and to receive “men callers,” according to a brochure of the time.

The ability to “bask” under glass year round was advertised as part of the building’s commitment to its residents’ health, Scutts said. “The rooms would’ve been tiny, very simple dorm rooms, but you would come up here and you could read and hang out with your friends in this beautiful space.”

The Great Depression changed everything. The Panhellenic was forced to accept non-sorority women in 1931 and then men as well in 1934, when it was rebranded as Beekman Tower.

In 1940, the solarium was converted into a bar called Top of the Tower, which over the years would become a favorite haunt of employees of the United Nations and celebrities like Frank Sinatra and Pearl Bailey.

In 1964, the Panhellenic House Association sold the building, and the new owners converted the dorm rooms into apartments for a residential hotel. Top of the Tower remained open to the public — it was best known among locals in the know as a once-grand, now-dusty and dated spot with so-so drinks and gorgeous views — until it closed in 2013.

Five years later, Merchants Hospitality Inc., which now owns the rooftop bar, has updated the space by simultaneously getting rid of a certain ‘80s pallor that had settled in and choosing to highlight its former Art Deco and early feminist glory with plush fabrics and vintage memorabilia.

The Panhellenic Tower was the idea of Emily Eaton Hepburn. Hepburn, a member of the sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma who graduated from St. Lawrence College and Barnard College, devoted herself to civic and social causes, most notably women’s suffrage. After her husband died in 1922, she became president of the Panhellenic House Association in 1925. “After women won the vote in 1920, Hepburn saw the sororities as continuations of the spirit of that campaign,” Scutts said.

Hepburn, who also helped open the Theodore Roosevelt house-museum in 1923, was drawn to the Panhellenic Tower project to “prove that women could do big business,” according to her biography. In 1926, she purchased the site at 49th Street and First Avenue, hiring the architect John Mead Howells to build the skyscraper. Construction began in 1927, and by the following year, residents had started to move in.

Hepburn not only developed the building herself — adding details like a scattering of Greek letters on the building’s base, and hiring the renowned sculptor Rene Paul Chambellan to add ornamental Art Deco-style carvings — but also ensured that upon its completion, the trustees who ran it would all be women, Scutts said. By 1928, Hepburn had turned the building over to the Panhellenic House Association. It was the only hotel in New York at the time to be owned and managed by women, according to a 1929 sorority publication.

The building was celebrated for its dramatic design and ingenious solution to a housing crisis. While the 380 rooms were decorated simply, the solarium was highlighted by Robert A.M. Stern in his book “New York 1930” for its “dark tones and sinuous patterns on the wall” and “waving fronds of metallic foliage applied around the central elevator door, tall lancet windows, and French-influenced furniture.”

But as the decades wore on, these design elements went out of fashion. A 1970 review of the Top of the Tower’s $3.25 lunch buffet by Craig Claiborne of The New York Times said, “There is nothing wrong with the tawdry interior of the Top of the Tower that an accomplished designer couldn’t improve.”

That happened in 2017, when Merchants Hospitality acquired the rooftop lounge. Soon, a female design team, Public Agenda, had been hired to update the rooftop.

Laura Mueller-Soppart, 26, and Eliza Liepina, 27, the founders of Public Agenda, met through a more modern communal housing version of the Panhellenic Tower: Airbnb. In 2015, Liepina was visiting New York and stayed in Mueller-Soppart’s apartment. The two discovered they had a lot in common, both working in real estate development — Mueller-Soppart for Two Trees and Liepina for WeWork, as its development manager in Germany. They started Public Agenda in 2016 and had recently partnered with Merchants to design a speakeasy-style bar also in Midtown, Sugar East.

Mueller-Soppart and Liepina were immediately taken with Beekman Tower. “We were inspired by the history and strong female narrative surrounding the lounge and needed to pay respect to it,” Mueller-Soppart said.

“You have a responsibility both to the history of the space and the community of the building,” Liepina said, “as well as a responsibility to create a space that actually works for the people that will use it in the future.”

Public Agenda then hired other women who they felt would respect the building’s history to customize furniture and consult on finishes and design the graphics and website. Early on, the designers came up with the idea of a cabinet of curiosities. For this, an antiques specialist was hired to source items from the first half of the 20th century. The most exciting finds were items with direct provenance to the building, like postcards with images of Beekman Tower and a matchbox from Top of the Tower, which are displayed on shelves on either side of the bar — or in the bar itself, inside its glass inset. There are also various sorority ephemera, about 100 mounted butterflies, a silver etched vanity set from 1930s New York and a Kewpie doll, which Scutts noted has ties to the woman’s suffrage movement.

But some people find themselves missing the old bar. Ann Seligman, 67, has lived in the neighborhood for 25 years. She first remembers going to the Top of the Tower around 2001, and it soon became her favorite place to bring out-of-towners. “The last time I went, there was a big comet in New York, I think that was in 2012, and I went with a friend because we thought that would be the place we could get a good view of the comet.”

After recently going to Ophelia, Seligman found herself missing the old incarnation. “The design is lovely and there’s not any particular thing I can point to, but in an overall way I feel like the previous décor was more genuinely Art Deco than this is,” she said. “I hate to say it, but I probably prefer the old.”

Luckily for Seligman and other nostalgic New Yorkers, the views remain no less dazzling.

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

DEVORAH LEV-TOV © 2018 The New York Times

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Couture à la Canadienne: A Dior Exhibition Opens at the Royal Ontario Museum

With “Christian Dior, Couturier du Rêve” at Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris continuing its blockbuster run, the heaving queue outside the museum as daily confirmation, one might wonder what a noticeably smaller exhibition an ocean away could contribute to Dior as a cultural experience. Turns out, quite a bit. When “Christian Dior” at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto opens this weekend, the presentation of 38 early designs from its own collection plus dozens of accessories and heritage items on loan will shed light not just on the master’s approach to constructing a coat or dress, but also on the women who purchased and wore them. Curated by Dr. Alexandra Palmer, the ROM’s Nora E. Vaughan senior curator, the show reveals a treasure trove of donations, which in turn puts a local spin on an otherwise Parisian narrative. One diminutive dress was created for a girl’s bat mitzvah; another was bought for a honeymoon in Jamaica. Toronto’s mid-century socialites had Dior, Norman Hartnell, and Balenciaga in their closets, even if they weren’t traveling abroad.

Photo: Courtesy of the Royal Ontario Museum The pieces Palmer has selected, on view together for the first time, all date back between 1947 and 1957, the brief but pivotal period between the founding of the maison and Monsieur Dior’s death. Devotees will recognize some of the silhouettes, if not their names: There’s Palmyre (1952) with its narrow bodice and medley of golden thread and Swarovski embellishment; Delphine (1956) a crimson dress boasting a signature Dior construction; and Auteuil (1994) a suit that feels quintessentially chic with its wasp waist and padded hips. But if the hidden corsets, innovative seams, and darts signal the fine details that preoccupied him in the studio, the exhibition reveals that his approach to disseminating the collections in a transatlantic postwar economy was just as telling. Palmer, who has already written about this in Dior: A New Look, A New Enterprise (1947–57) managed to interview several of the donors while they were still alive, which means she is prone to serving up charming anecdotes alongside the specificities of Rébé embroidery of Robert Perrier satin.

Photo: Courtesy of the Royal Ontario Museum “We don’t really need another great Dior exhibition with all the fabulousness. There’s one in Paris. I cannot do that; I do not have the resources. But I can drill down; I’m an academic and this what I love—to unpack all this stuff and explain things from a different point of view,” she said last week while the looks were huddled together in a workroom, still under their protective covers. Perhaps surprisingly, the Toronto clientele could purchase Dior right from its debut, thanks to the defunct department store Eaton’s followed by an exclusive arrangement with Holt Renfrew, which is the show’s title sponsor. Back then, with ready-to-wear not yet in place, retailers staged fashion shows for special clients with couture designs sent over from Paris. Other looks were also manufactured as made-to-order by license, precisely according to the atelier’s specifications. Additionally, there were the “bonded models,” which arrived in Canada via American stores a few months after the couture shows. In 1956, Mrs. John David Eaton (familiarly known as Signy) donated her Nocturne two-piece dinner dress to the ROM, before the museum, which is best known for its massive dinosaur fossils and indigenous artifacts, had begun collecting couture. She also donated a lustrous jacket lined with guipure lace from Spring ’49 that she would have worn over a black evening dress; Monsieur Dior had named it the Tour Eiffel.

Photo: Courtesy of the Royal Ontario Museum As for the striking plaid dress, called Batignolles after the Parisian neighborhood, it belonged to Lillian Weiss, who is now 97. The silk taffeta came from Soieries F. Ducharne, and Dior aligned the pattern impeccably while adapting a redingote style to his new volumes. Indeed, Weiss donned her dress more often as a coat, as a photo taken outside a nightclub in the town of Cambridge, Ontario, suggests. Incidentally, the same design was worn by Mexican screen siren María Félix. The violets embroidered on Abraham on Avril, a two-piece number from 1955, suggest ideal garden party attire, not to mention Dior’s ongoing love of flowers. That design belonged to Mrs. Philippe Hecht (known as Frederica), a couturier who came to Toronto from Milan upon being hired by yet another defunct department store, Simpson’s, before opening her own boutique. “It’s perfectly made with a strapless corset with a re-appliquéd cummerbund that’s part of the skirt,” Palmer explained. Of the dramatic Isabelle gown from 1948, Palmer said this gift from Mrs. David Meltzer (if not already obvious, the donors’ names remain a reflection of their time) looks particularly fantastic when laid out flat, thus highlighting Dior’s double circle design. “What the heck he was thinking of when he made these clothes?” she exclaimed, noting how it underscored his use of historical dressmaking. And while the three dresses grouped together might appear as though intended for a wedding, Elaine Roebuck can confirm she wore the medium-size one for her bat mitzvah in 1957, with the other two worn by her mother and sister. In a video prepared for the show, she says, “I didn’t know Dior from a hole in the ground; having a date was important.” In fact, her mother’s dress was adapted from a 1956 wedding dress, whereas hers was made to order by Holt Renfrew’s Montreal atelier, based on a design from Paris. Two other mentions: the cocktail dress striped with bands of Valenciennes lace. Palmer pointed out how Dior achieved remarkable fluidity in the skirt by conceiving it as quadrants, while also noting the modernity of the leather belt. This was what Ann Levitt, the daughter of Holt Renfrew’s president at the time, Alvin Walker, wore on her honeymoon at Tower Isle, Jamaica, and might be the only one of its kind in an institution, according to Palmer. She believes the black tiered dress from 1947, known as Chandernagar after a town in West Bengal, was the couturier’s way of channeling the romantic ideal of a region still under French rule, noting how the bodice and short sleeves suggest a choli blouse worn under a sari. “It absolutely encapsulates Dior’s New Look,” she says, adding that this could have been the dress he presented when Neiman Marcus awarded him a fashion “Oscar” in Dallas. Apparently, Marlene Dietrich wore a modified version (less décolleté) for a shoot in either Vogue or Harper’saround the same time. When asked whether these dresses with their stories speak to her, Palmer said no, at least not in the fantastical sense of them seeming alive. “I always tell my students and reviewers that the clothes don’t actually speak; they’re mute. But we interpret them. And we bring our baggage to them. And what is that? What are the questions they pose? It’s an interesting thing, because people do get emotions from beautiful things and fashion exhibitions are interesting, because you have an audience that can immediately engage with things and can project on them.” In that spirit, speaking personally, I returned to Paris before having the chance to see the exhibition installed. Upon receiving a photo of the accessories case, I marveled at the secret jewelry compartment emerging from a Dior purse. But I felt a special connection to the black Dior gloves, which belonged to Rose Torno, the wife of my father’s uncle (go figure, the lawyer with a love of fashion happened to favor Balenciaga). Most visitors to this show will not know the women who owned these beautiful specimens, yet they will find evidence that Dior cast his spell far, if not wide. “Christian Dior” at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto runs from November 25 until March 18, 2018. For more information, visit www.rom.on.ca. Read the full article

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Covert Gems in Toronto You Have To See

Ever before wanted to go to a huge city but as opposed to hitting all the popular tourist attractions you wished to dig much deeper? While I love a mix of both I have actually pertained to understand that beyond the iconic CN Tower truth essence of Toronto is off the ruined path. So, I'm sharing some of my preferred 15 hidden treasures in Toronto.

I constantly claim that the very best way to see a city is by foot. Straying the roads, alleys, cafes, and also buildings of Toronto is specifically just how I encountered most of these hidden gems. In this guide to off-beat things to do in Toronto, you'll locate an array of charming green spaces, amazing street art places, and also a healthy mix of coffee, background, and fun.

Top 15 Surprise Gems in Toronto You Need To See

Parks & Environment-friendly Spaces

Allan Gardens Searching for a little environment-friendly oasis in a sea of mortar? After that head to the Jarvis as well as Gerrard location of midtown to discover Allan Gardens. In my viewpoint, it is the very best of the hidden gems in Toronto you'll locate. Allan Gardens is just one of Toronto's oldest parks and is residence to a sunroom, play area, dog parks, as well as much more.

Allan Gardens is the excellent escape in the snow, rainfall, or if you're looking for a little dose of nature. It's open each day of the year as well as it's free. The sunroom mores than 100 years old and has six greenhouses; two tropical, a great pleasant residence, hand residence, dry house, and also a tropical one.

It's a wonderful and Instagram deserving area in Toronto. With vivid greens, flowers to match every colour of the rainbow, koi fish, turtles, and also more, you'll feel like you're going through the web pages of Alice in Paradise. And also make certain to visit throughout whenever of year as there are constantly shows for every vacation.

St. James Park An additional terrific little park in Toronto is St. James Park. Flanked by looming buildings and also the St. James Church-- among Toronto's oldest churches, lies this covert treasure of green room in Toronto. Right here you'll locate an English passionate park with a collection of official yards, a gazebo, crisscrossing courses, and centre phase is a beautiful old fountain. St. James Park is the best place to run away the warmth. Cozy up on among the benches under the huge mature trees and appreciate a little peace.

Cloud Gardens The Cloud Gardens is essentially one of Toronto's concealed treasures. Concealed behind the maddening Yonge Street in an unassuming building is a wonderful greenhouse. Outside lies the only park in the Financial Area, as well as while it's tiny the most effective part lies within. Inside the sunroom you'll be surrounded by lavish tropical plants. And also there's also a five-story falls-- which just runs in the summertime.

Guild Park & Gardens This is the only position on the listing that is not in downtown Toronto but it is still worth the initiative to visit. Guild Park is located in Scarbourgh within the Scarbourgh Bluffs chain of parks along the coasts of Lake Ontario. Guild Park is hands down among the very best concealed treasures in Toronto.

Treatment 80 acres Guild Park is the ideal combination of outdoors fulfills background. The park is home to various trails, consisting of a beachfront path, and awesome yards. Yet this as soon as musician's swarm is additionally residence to the residues of over 60 historical buildings from Toronto and also somewhere else in Ontario. Purposefully placed amongst the trees, routes as well as flower gardens these pieces of Toronto's past create a magical air to the location.

Road Art, Statues & Sculptures

Shark Mural Toronto is residence to some of the best road art in Ontario. Some locations to locate road art are prominent but there are a lots of covert treasures in Toronto-- like the shark mural. Located in Yorkville, the shark mural admires Canadian filmmaker and also preservationist Rob Stewart. Widely known for his film Sharkwater he was a passionate conservationist and also stayed in Toronto when he wasn't going after sharks.

After his untimely passing Toronto-based musicians Birdo and GETSO developed a huge shark mural on the back wall of the Opus Restaurant in Stewart's honor. Mayor John Tory said, "this mural will commemorate the life of a remarkable Toronto resident and advise us that the health of the globe's seas is of critical relevance to every person."

Galaxy When we discuss road art in Toronto most think about Graffiti Alley. But Toronto is house to a lot of excellent street art streets like Ossington Lane as well as Milky Way. If you're seeking to stay clear of the groups head to Milk Method. The laneway is located between Dufferin Road and also Elm Grove Opportunity and runs alongside Queen Street.

Elephant Statues Who does not like elephants? Toronto is home to one of the globe's largest bronze elephant statuaries yet the challenging point is-- finding them. Concealed amongst imposing structures in Commerce Yard you'll discover Tembo, Mommy of Elephants statue. Walking happily with infant in tow is one of Toronto's finest concealed treasures when it comes to statues.

Shangri La Hotel Sculpture Another terrific item of artwork in Toronto that you may not have actually seen as you strolled past is the Shangri La Resort sculpture. Located on College Opportunity in front of the hotel is a huge sculpture of twisting steel called Increasing. Dominating a mirroring pool, this sculpture begs to be looked at. It's a thrive of tree fulfills dragon with an upset flock of birds assaulting. Whatever you see in it, it will certainly blow your mind.

Iron Artwork in Corktown Several of my preferred concealed gems in Toronto are ones that celebrate the city. And in Toronto's Corktown area you'll discover one that satisfy that mark. On the corner of Eastern Opportunity and Sumach Street is a simple fencing that pleads a more detailed look. The iron fencing showcases the background of Toronto from the Glacial Period to the contemporary age.

Among the background and also cityscape, the piece likewise weaves in the story of the Blackburns. Lucie and also Thornton Blackburn were previous slaves who got away the United States using the Below ground Railway. They ended up in Toronto as well as prospered below, and also this ironwork artwork stands beside their former house.

Cafés, Areas, Squares & Extra

Arts & Letters Club While it's no secret society the Arts & Letters Club contains mystery and intrigue. Embed in the historic St. George's Hall, built in 1891, they are an exclusive club of artists, from writers to architects as well as painters to actors. And they have actually been satisfying in this impressive structure for nearly 100 years.

The only time us simple people have access is during Doors Open Toronto, when numerous buildings that aren't typically open up to the general public are. Within this nationwide historical site is a captivating lounge, a library with a narwhale tusk, and also the Great Hall. The Great Hall advises me of Edinburgh Castle's Great Hall but others might create pictures of Hogwarts, with elaborate home windows, layers of arms hung around, as well as a grand ceiling. Famous participants consist of the Group of Seven, Robertson Davis and Frederick Banting.

Restroom in Web Page One Café Admission-- I dislike public washrooms! However to be honest, who likes them? But if there was an amazing washroom in Toronto that must be on your radar it's the one in Web page One COFFEE SHOP. If you're looking for terrific cafés in Toronto than Page One is it.

Page One COFFEE SHOP lies in a transformed warehouse that goes back to 1910. It has a trendy literary vibe with its wall of typewriters and is understood for its latte art but I urge you to take a leak. They've morphed an ordinary commercial washroom right into an enjoyable experience. Cluttered throughout the walls are quotes from literary titans that review witty and also totally comical in the ways they exist.

A couple instances are, "words are however wind" by Jonathan Swift with an arrowhead indicating the hand dryer and "perhaps all enjoyment is only alleviation" by William s. Burroughs with an arrowhead indicating the urinal. If there was a leading restroom concealed gem in Toronto this is it!

Trinity Square Covert in between the Eaton Centre, a massive hotel and an office complex lies a lovely square. This off the beaten track Toronto treasure will take you back in time. Trinity Square is residence to the Holy Trinity Church that was constructed in 1847 and whose parishioners assisted in saving the square from being destroyed. And say thanks to God! As it's the sweetest little sanctuary.

Next to the Trinity Church stands a brick townhouse that resembles something you would certainly see in old Britain. This was where the church's initial rector lived. The square likewise has a decorative fish pond and water fountain as well as a maze.

Arthur Conan Doyle Room If you're a literary geek like myself or just a large Sherlock Holmes follower, after that you'll like the Arthur Conan Doyle area at the Toronto Referral Collection Found on the top flooring of the collection the room is similar to an old English collection area with a Persian carpet, magnificent desk with royal chair as well as wood shelfs lining the walls.

Below you'll discover one of the globe's most significant collections of library products committed to Arthur Conan Doyle's life as well as job. Within the glassed-in space you'll discover initial versions, Doyle's works in different foreign languages therefore far more. There's also a Sherlock Holmes themed chess set as well as a smoking pipe set on the fireplace mantel.

Osgoode Hall Library. An additional remarkable building that needs to be on your listing throughout Doors Open Toronto is Osgoode Hall. House to the Regulation Culture of Ontario, Osgoode Hall is a National Historic Website and has plenty of majesty with it's palatial like areas, detailed floors and attractive skylights. However there are 2 very unique areas that swept me away.

The Great Library is the research study hall of the law culture as well as is residence to the biggest private collection of lawful product in Canada (around 120,000 volumes). The prompt feeling you obtain when you go into is simply how little you are. The space is 40 feet large with Roman-like columns holding up the extraordinary ceiling that stands 40 feet above you. There's a huge fireplace that appears like it might transport you to Narnia and also the windows have a delicate etched detailing on them.

But it's the smaller room following door that moves my book-lovers heartstrings. Named the American Space it is flooring to ceiling wooden bookshelves with an iron spiral staircase bring about the 2nd flooring which is open to the first. It is a proper library room that oozes old world charm.

Campbell Home In regards to galleries, the Campbell Home defeats the rest for covert gems in Toronto. Many walk past it every day, with its surrounded grass as well as crown of mature trees. But the Campbell house holds a considerable slice of Toronto's past. Integrated in 1822 it is the oldest building from the Community of York (the community prior to Toronto was included as a city) that has actually made it through.

The grand Georgian building is home to a museum and art gallery inside and also has a long-term exhibition on their front lawn. Below you'll locate the Lost & Found exhibit that showcases pieces of old Toronto. There are sensational sculpted rock pieces of famous Toronto structures like the old Toronto Celebrity structure, the headquarters of the Bank of Toronto and more.

There are more hidden gems in Toronto, yet you'll need to see, roaming and locate them on your own!

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I held the box in my hand, and and looked at Elisia with a questioning glance.  Throughout these past weeks I had imagined that the box would contain a rare stone artifact or large manuscript from the ancient world.  But the box was actually quite small and not heavy enough for stone artifacts.  Coins, perhaps?  There must be something valuable inside.  Eaton had said his time in Athens had been very lucrative.  Wouldn't his assistant have given him something particularly significant?  

"Can you open it Richard?" Elisia asked as she stepped across the room to see the box up close.

"It is indeed locked," Leblanc said with shrug.  "Do you have a key?"

"No, my great-grandfather left a diary that I have read but there is no mention of a key.  He must have kept the key with him when he sailed back to London."

"Yes, probably." Lablanc was starting to pack up his things.  He seemed genuinely disappointed.

"After all these years, Dr. Leblanc, you deserve a resolution to this mystery.  Surely there is a way to open this box.  If you will permit that the box transfers to my personal property i will slice it open and we can all discover its contents together."

"I do grant you that it is your property.  There is no record of ownership in the files that I can find and there appears no reason for it to be held in the collection of the cathedral.  it appears to have no religious or artistic value of any kind.  Yes, Dr. Eaton, it is yours."  Leblanc still looked disgusted and maybe a little irritated that this whole thing was so meaningless.

"Do you have a knife I can use to break it open?"

"Wiat!" Elisia was looking through her purse, digging down to the very bottom where the good stuff hides.  "Here is the key that opened the box with the diary in it.  Before you break it open, try this.  It just might work.  It's the key from the box at the British Museum!"

She handed me the key and I looked at it for a moment.  It was about the right size, although it was far less worn and discolored from the passage of time than the box appeared.  "Ok, here' goes!"

I pushed the key into the lock and tried to turn the lock.  It was stiff and wouldn't move.  After several twists, the key began to rotate in the lock.  Only two more tries and the lock popped open.

"It worked, you Elisia, are a genius!"

We all moved closer as I lifted the lid of the box. The lining was dark and frayed.  A dark rich color of silk probably that had deteriorated over time.  As I lifted the lid, visions of precious gemstones or a treasure map flashed across my brain.  But no, not this time.  No diamonds no ancient manuscripts, or early stone artifacts.  There was no leather pouch of rare and fabulously valuable gold Macedonian coins.  

With a shrug of resignation, I reached in the box and pulled out a small red leather book, a hand-drawn map of some of islands, and another key.  This time, the key was small, rounded, old but not worn, as if it had been kept in a hiding place for a very long time.

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These Forgeries Fooled the Art World—What about You?

Elmyr de Hory, Portrait of a Woman, in the style of Amedeo Modigliani, ca. 1955. Collection of Scott Richter and Pamela Richter-Lenon. Courtesy of the Winterthur Museum.

Untitled seascape, in the style of Winslow Homer, 19th century. Courtesy of the Winterthur Museum.

Artist Elmyr de Hory is famous for his fakes. Throughout the 20th century, he forged the likes of Matisse, Picasso, and Modigliani—and did it so skillfully that he managed to pawn off more than a thousand of his own works as those of the greats.

When his deception was discovered in the 1950s, de Hory’s story became an international sensation. Writer and reporter Clifford Irving made him the subject of a 1969 book; five years later Orson Welles released a documentary film about his life. In 1976, while living in Spain and facing extradition to France for fraud prosecution, de Hory took his own life. His works have since become collectibles that are hungrily snapped up at auction.

And now that his fakes are worth something, they’re worth faking, says Winterthur Museum curator Linda Eaton.

She believes one of the paintings on view as part of the Delaware museum’s ongoing show “Treasures on Trial: The Art and Science of Detecting Fakes” is likely the work of another, anonymous forger who was imitating a de Hory fake of a Renoir.

“It’s like a double negative,” she laughs. “Do two fakes equal a real thing?”

The subject of the painting is a girl from an existent, genuine work by Renoir—which, Eaton says, was the first red flag. “De Hory would do things in the style of” an artist, Eaton explains. “He never really copied something.”

Work in the style of Jackson Pollock. Courtesy of the Winterthur Museum.

Ostensibly produced by one of the world’s most infamous (and prolific) forgers, work attributed to de Hory has been subjected to scientific technical analysis in an effort to determine authenticity, the same process afforded to famous and lucrative artists. This material fingerprint can help historians and conservationists identify those de Horys that may still be tucked away in personal or museum collections.

Some of these tests—in particular, an analysis of de Hory’s pallette—were conducted by students in Winterthur’s graduate programs for material culture and conservation. Bringing art-historical and scientific analysis together, “Treasures on Trial” features dozens of fake or suspected-to-be-fake artworks and objects, offering a window into the methods authenticators employ to outwit wily con artists.

Another artist whose materials have been carefully scrutinized is Robert Trotter, who worked out of Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, from 1985 to 1990—after which he was sentenced to 10 months in federal prison for his forgeries. Frustrated with his inability to sell his own works, he had succumbed to temptation and started to paint in the style of various outsider and American folk artists.

Trotter’s work on display in the Winterthur show is on loan from the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York; four more of his pieces are currently in the possession of the Yale Art Gallery to aid investigators in identifying fakes.

“At the time of Trotter’s trial, he’d identified over 50 examples of his work, but not all of them had been found,” says Eaton. “Who knows how many are out there that he didn’t admit to? And so it’s important to be able to recognize his work after his trial.”

Robert Lawrence Trotter, Portrait of Mother and Child, ca. 1980. Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY, Gift of Brian Palmiter, acquired for the teaching collection as a known forgery. Courtesy of the Winterthur Museum.

Pei-Shen Qian painting in the style of Mark Rothko. Courtesy of Luke Nikas, courtesy of th Winterthur Museum.

But, Eaton notes, the line between fake and real is not always clear. She singles out a work in the show purchased by a knowledgeable art historian and collector a half century ago, with a signature that marks it as a Winslow Homer.

“There’s no provenance on this thing, it was in a local antique shop,” she says. “From the connoisseurship, could it be a preliminary sketch? We can’t say for sure. And from scientific analysis, nothing’s found that’s outside Homer’s lifetime. The signature is embedded in the paint, not something that was added later.”

“So we genuinely do not know. And we do not know of a way to prove it one way or the other.”

The star of the show, however, is most definitely a fake—one of the most talked-about in years. With the help of her co-curator, founder and director of D.C.-based Art Fraud Insights Colette Loll, Eaton managed to procure a small fake Rothko that was embroiled in the long-running Knoedler scandal.

John Myatt’s copy of Oleanders, after Vincent Van Gogh, 2012. Courtesy of the Winterthur Museum.

One of New York’s oldest and most venerable galleries, Knoedler abruptly shut down in 2011 when it came to light that its former director Ann Freedman had (according to her, unwittingly) sold $70 million in fake Abstract Expressionist paintings to her clients. Rather than coming from the hands of Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, and other masters, the Knoedler works had been churned out by a Chinese artist in Queens and peddled to Freedman by Long Island dealer Glafira Rosales.

Luke Nikas, Freedman’s defense lawyer, lent the fake Rothko on view at Winterthur. Before that, the painting had been hanging on his office wall.

Forgery, of course, is not the sole purview of the art world. One display features a worn leather baseball glove, sold as Babe Ruth’s for $200,000; another holds a purported Stradivarius violin that doesn’t sound quite right.

What drove the creation of these fakes was the pursuit of money. But Eaton notes there’s a secondary factor that resonates beyond the wallet.

“Many forgers take great pleasure out of fooling the art world,” she notes. “Whether or not that’s their primary intent, they get great pleasure out of it. That’s also a reason why exhibitions on fakes and forgeries are popular with a general audience. People like thinking that rich people and the art world can be fooled.”

—Abigail Cain

from Artsy News

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Exploring NYC From Coney To Harlem: Fresh Art on The Streets This Summer

5 Neighborhoods That Are Popping With Murals and Street Art Right Now

Summer brings people out onto the streets. New Yorkers especially love to congregate on corners, stoops, public parks and plazas, sidewalks and on the streets to soak in the sun and the excitement of summer after its long winter season. With that in mind we want to point you to what’s new on the streets of the city when it comes to Street Art and Graffiti, scenes that are constantly reinventing themselves and moving.

Here are five destinations with fresh new murals and Street Art painted this year that you can track down and enjoy on your own in an afternoon. Take a break by sitting on a stoop or a bench and enjoy the sounds and energy of each neighborhood and have a hot dog or a slice of watermelon, a slice of pizza – maybe an Italian ice!

The Bushwick Collective in Brooklyn.

This 6 year old project spearheaded by Bushwick native Joe Ficalora continues to host international artists on walls spread on five blocks in this gentrifying neighborhood of Brooklyn. With more than a dozen freshly painted murals that were completed for this months annual block party, the cheek-to-jowl collection of murals feels like a treasure hunt of global styles all here to show off their best. While we still have the L train you can take it Jefferson et voilà!

Coney Art Walls in Coney Island, Brooklyn.

In its third year, Coney Art Walls is an initiative of Thor Equities and in a curatorial collaboration with art maven Jeffrey Deitch….This year’s edition of Coney Art Walls brings ten freshly painted murals by American and international artists to add to the collection of 30 or so murals painted during the past two editions. Here you will see an eclectic mix of 1970s era train writers to some of today’s multi-conceptualists take on the broader theme of Coney Island, its characters, its rides, its foot long hot dogs. A plethora of trains will take you there and be prepared to enjoy native graffiti in the “wild”on walls throughout the roughly 45 minutes train ride as your view rises on the elevated tracks. Take the N, Q, F, and D trains to Coney Island.

Welling Court Mural Project in Queens, NY.

The most community oriented among all of the festivals taking place in NYC, Welling Court just completed its 8th edition this month a part of Queens that feels ignored, yet now strangely is getting some high-end real estate?  With a less-structured program and a philosophy of inclusiveness the project attracts a diverse group of local, national and international artists seeking to participate and interact with these neighbors, some of them New Yorks’ newest members, in a weekend-long genuine summer block party. Located in Welling Court in Long Island City in the borough of Queens the walls spread over five blocks or so and can be accessed via the N train to 30th Ave. Take a bus to Welling Court or walk for about 15 minutes on 30th Ave towards the East River.

The L.I.S.A. Project NYC in Little Italy and The Lower East Side.

This Mural Program is the brainchild of Wayne Rada and Ray Rosa, who host artists from all over the world to come and beautify the old neighborhoods of Little Italy and parts of the Lower East Side both in Manhattan. Because its Manhattan and space and turf are contested, you’ll find the works scattered and surprisingly integrated into spots – evoking the element of “discovery” that organic Street Art and graffiti produces.

Not necessarily located on a specific set of blocks the murals are more spread out on several streets in and around Little Italy and can be reached taking a number of subways lines. We’ll advise you take the B or the D trains to Grand Street Station and make your way to Mulberry Street where you’ll enjoy large murals by Ron English and Tristan Eaton and a number of smaller pieces. As you wander, walk, stroll, or crawl through Little Italy you’re bound to discover big and small pieces that run a spectrum of Shepard Fairey, JPO, BKFoxx, KanoKid, The Drif, and Buff Monster.

Monument Art in El Barrio, Harlem.

Monument Art really concentrates on large high quality murals for El Barrio in NYC. Beginning in 2015 a dozen international artists were invited to paint for two weeks including massive murals by ROA, El Mac, Celso, Ever Siempre, Faith 47 and others others. This year German artist Case Maclaim was invited to paint one highly realistic mural on a school wall located at 310 East 113th Street. Take the 6 train to 110 Street and walk north on Lexington ave towards 113th street.

As you make your way north you’ll see some of the murals painted in 2015.

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