Brunch with Feast on History
Published on Nov 18, 2015
Highlights from Feast on History's Brunch & Castles tour. Start the day with brunch at Rusty Mackerel, see the ruins of Paterno Castle and then visit the Hispanic Society of America
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Paterno Castle at 181st Street and Cabrini Blvd (Northern Blvd) 1909-38
Charles Paterno 1876-1946
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Archer Milton Huntington
Collector and Founder of the Hispanic Society of America 1870-1955
Huntington's Cultural institutions
- Hispanic Society of America
- American Numismatic Society
- Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina
- Mariner's Museum, Newport News
- American Academy of Arts & Letters
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- American Geographical Society
- Museum of the American Indian
- Established and endowned the National Poet Laureate stipend
- Archer Milton Huntington and Anna Hyatt Huntington Wildlife Forest,
- Atalaya Castle, South Carolina
The Huntington's home on 5th Ave. Now the National Design Academy
John James Audubon 1785-1851
Audobon's Estate
The Hispanic Society on the new AudubonTerrace
Excerpt from:
http://learn.columbia.edu/hispanic/essays/huntington.php
"Huntington strove to facilitate more than traditional academic research. Huntington hoped learning could be accomplished with beauty, charm and romance. He wrote to his mother: "If I can make a poem of a museum it will be easy to read. I have often said I am not a 'collector,' rather an assembler for a given expression".1 Huntington's collections are shaped to woo and enchant the viewer, to inspire rather to intimidate."
http://learn.columbia.edu/hispanic/essays/huntington.php
"Huntington strove to facilitate more than traditional academic research. Huntington hoped learning could be accomplished with beauty, charm and romance. He wrote to his mother: "If I can make a poem of a museum it will be easy to read. I have often said I am not a 'collector,' rather an assembler for a given expression".1 Huntington's collections are shaped to woo and enchant the viewer, to inspire rather to intimidate."
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A key strategy was thematic focus. Here the example of Huntington's mother, Arabella Huntington, may have been an influence. Herself an important collector of French art, and the second wife of a collector—Henry E. Huntington—who focused on British art and literature, she taught her son French literature and Enlightenment values. Each of Huntington's institutions concentrates on one field of thought or collecting: a single medium, like numismatics; a single cultural heritage, usually Spanish; or a single topic, like Geography. None of his institutions are large or rambling, unlike many initiated by his peers. Huntington's exhibits told a single visual narrative, with a beginning and an end, supported behind the scenes by archival collections and research.
Anna Hyatt Huntington, Sculptor
1876-1973
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Excerpt from: http://learn.columbia.edu/hispanic/essays/beaux-arts.php
"This complex provided a single location in which one could study and admire the accomplishments of a once-powerful empire of the Old World (the Hispanic Society); the artistry of the money used by a variety of world civilizations (the American Numismatic Society); current thinking and efforts on how best to document and describe the full extent of the globe (the American Geographical Society); the culture of "primitive" peoples whose "disappearance" was thought a necessary, if tragic, side effect of the march of civilization (the Museum of the American Indian); and the works of the nation's finest artists (the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters). In this thematic unity we may discover the personal interests of Archer Milton Huntington, the wealthy patron who brought these institutions together on Audubon Terrace. More broadly, however, it may be read as the preoccupations of an entire nation poised to assume its role as a civilization for the ages."
"This complex provided a single location in which one could study and admire the accomplishments of a once-powerful empire of the Old World (the Hispanic Society); the artistry of the money used by a variety of world civilizations (the American Numismatic Society); current thinking and efforts on how best to document and describe the full extent of the globe (the American Geographical Society); the culture of "primitive" peoples whose "disappearance" was thought a necessary, if tragic, side effect of the march of civilization (the Museum of the American Indian); and the works of the nation's finest artists (the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters). In this thematic unity we may discover the personal interests of Archer Milton Huntington, the wealthy patron who brought these institutions together on Audubon Terrace. More broadly, however, it may be read as the preoccupations of an entire nation poised to assume its role as a civilization for the ages."
A few HIghlights of the Collection
Photo by Mark B. Schlemmer
DUCHESS OF ALBA, 1797 JOSÉ DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES
The Spanish Dancer, 1882 John Singer Sargent
The Provinces of Spain by Sorolla
The Sorolla mural gallery
Photo by Mark B. Schlemmer
Ignacio Zuloaga, 1908, Carmen
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