Art

Bush-Holley Historic Site in Cos Cob, CT

Overlooking historic Cos Cob Harbor in Greenwich, Connecticut, the Bush-Holley Historic Site consists of four buildings with historic landscape and grounds restored circa 1900. Once home to the Cos Cob Art Colony, today’s Bush-Holley House is a historic museum featuring two distinct time periods. The first spans the years 1790-1825, when the new nation transitioned from an agricultural economy to one that was based on the manufacturing of goods. The second period focuses on the turn of the twentieth century, when the Holley House functioned as a boarding house. During those years it provided a place for Cos Cob Art Colony artists to gather together and share ideas with each other, as well as with novelists and journalists who gathered at the [...]

National Museum of the American Indian - NYC Branch

The National Museum of the American Indian is dedicated to the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of the indigenous inhabitants of the United States. Under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution, it has three facilities. One of those facilities is the George Gustav Heye Center, a permanent museum that is housed in the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House near the southern tip of Manhattan. The National Museum of the American Indian is home to the collection of the former Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, which owns more than 800,000 objects and a photographic archive of 125,000 images. The collection was assembled by George Gustav Heye during a 54-year period that began in [...]

John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove

Mill Grove was the first home of John James Audubon in the United States and is the only true Audubon home that remains standing in this country. This Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, estate was owned for 17 years by Audubon’s father, who was a French sea captain. While at Mill Grove, John developed his “wire armature,” a device that gave life to his freshly shot specimens and his drawings of the birds. The home, now a museum, contains the complete editions of every major work published by Audubon including the world famous Birds of America, which was printed and hand colored from copper plate engravings that were produced in London. The Mill Grove Audubon Center is maintained as both a museum and a bird sanctuary, with five miles of marked [...]