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Bold Lit­tle Castle

Dec 28, 2009 8:37 pm

[cap­tion id=“attachment_2415” align=“aligncenter” width=“468” caption=”“Packet Ship Pass­ing Cas­tle Williams, New York Har­bor,” by Thomas Cham­bers. Pho­to: Board of Trustees, Nation­al Gallery of Art via New York Times ”][/​caption] Rober­ta Smith’s recent New York Times piece, ​“The Year in Arts”, is giv­ing us the excuse to share a delight­ful paint­ing fea­tur­ing Cas­tle Williams that we saw at the Amer­i­can Folk Art Muse­um ear­li­er this fall. It is part of an exhi­bi­tion of work by 19^th-cen­tu­ry Amer­i­can painter Thomas Cham­bers that is ongo­ing until March 7. In the course of our Gov­er­nors Island research, we’ve seen our share of sim­i­lar 19^th-cen­tu­ry har­bor scenes, but there’s some­thing incred­i­bly appeal­ing and bold about this piece.