Catskill: Benjamin Bellows Grant Stone Personal Papers
Series — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents
This series is comprised of the correspondence, writings, and miscellaneous papers of Benjamin Bellows Grant Stone of Catskill, NY. Benjamin Stone [alternately styled BBG Stone and Colonel Stone] was a landscape artist who relocated to Catskill in the late 1850s to practice landscape drawing in a style which later came to be known as the Hudson River School of Landscape Art. Stone married Mary Allen DuBois of Catskill prior to the Civil War, and on his return from service with a Massachusetts Artillery regiment in 1865 he resumed his artistic career. Stone met with nominal success during his career by creating sketches and oil paintings which were converted to mass-produced lithographs, and he also made sketches incorporated into local travel guides and publication during the peak years of the extensive tourism industry in the Northern Catskill Mountains.
Dates
- 1693 - 1972
Extent
From the Collection: 8.5 Cubic Feet (Fifteen legal size document boxes, four small oversize boxes, five large oversize boxes, two flat file folders. ) : Handrwitten documents, pencil sketches, oil-on-board and oil on panel studies. ; Various
Arrangement
Files in this series are broken down by material type, with correspondence and personal papers appearing first, followed by writings and literary materials, followed lastly by business and financial papers. Materials are sorted in their containers in a rough chronological order by year. Files with inclusive date ranges are sorted by earliest year.
Repository Details
Part of the Vedder Research Library Repository