Portraits, photos, and sketches of Benjamin B. G. Stone, 1855-1900
File — Carton: MSS Box 44
Identifier: 44.21
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
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
- Other: 1855-1900
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
Repository Details
Part of the Vedder Research Library Repository