ABOUT THE PROJECT
This digital exhibition was created by the students of “Adirondack Arts and Archives,” a First-Year Seminar taught by English professor Mark Sturges. As part of a visual artifact project, classes examined materials related to the Adirondacks and St. Lawrence River Valley that are owned by St. Lawrence University and housed in the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery and Owen D. Young Library’s Special Collections.
Each student selected a painting, print, map, or material object; conducted research on the artist, medium, content, and context; and wrote an interpretive text panel to accompany a digital image of the visual artifact. The end result is a digital exhibition that showcases a variety of visual representations of the Adirondacks and St. Lawrence River Valley available to students and the public at St. Lawrence University. We hope it inspires viewers to visit the university and experience the aura and artistry of these visual artifacts in person, to sit or stand in their physical presence and recall that the world has more depth and meaning than the surface of a digital screen. The students would like to thank gallery and library staff Catherine Tedford, Carole Mathey, Eric Williams-Bergen, and Paul Doty for collaborating on this project.
SPRING 2023
Adirondack Park Agency, Adirondack Park Portion of the N.Y.S. Wild, Scenic, and Recreational Rivers System
Artist unknown, View of Blue Mountain Lake from “The Hedges” Road and “The Hedges,” Blue Mountain Lake, NY, Adirondack Mountains
Sheila Kanieson Ransom, Waves Basket
Seneca Ray Stoddard, Map of the Adirondack Wilderness
Sandra Hildreth, Adirondack Mandala
Iakonikonriiosta, Tsi Kiontahsawen / In the Beginning
John Henry Rushton, Punkie
Robert Walp, Peak to Peak: Verplanck Colvin and the First Years of the Adirondack Survey
Verplanck Colvin, The Crest of The Gothics – View Southward
Verplanck Colvin, Adirondack Survey: Specimen of Preliminary Reconnaissance Sketch
Charles Ingham, Trap Dyke, at Avalanche Lake
Sue Ellen Herne , Our Spirits Don’t Belong Here
Tehanetorens (Aren Akweks/Ray Fadden), Ka-hon-hes (Kahionhes/John Fadden), The Vicious Cycle of Indian-White Relationships on the Frontier
Rockwell Kent, Eternal Vigilance Is the Price of Liberty
Harold Weston, Haystack – Winter
Harold Weston, Frost before Night
SPRING 2024
Stephany Hildebrand, Traces Ⅰ
Untitled Adirondack postcards
The Spalding St. Lawrence Boat Company Catalogue
Katsitsionni Fox, Three Sisters Seed Pot
Arthur Einhorn, Gov. Denny Belt
Mercedes Herold, Adirondack wood engravings
Winslow Homer, two prints from Harper’s Weekly
Seneca Ray Stoddard, three stereographs
E.A. Merritt and Henry Thompson, Field Notes of Piercefield
Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait, Camping in the Woods: A Good Time Coming
Railroad Advertising Posters
Wilma (Kawennaronnion) Cook Zumpano, untitled purple beaded bag
SPRING 2025
Natasha Smoke Santiago, Water Pollution, the Problem, and the Protectors
Ken Marcle, Miniature Wampum Belt – Flag of the Iroquois Confederacy
Daniel Beard, “Evicted Tenants” of the Adirondacks
Paul Jamieson’s Underwood No. 5
George Washington Sears (Nessmuk), Woodcraft
Sue Ellen Herne, Lodge (Fear)
Tehanetorens (Aren Akweks / Ray Fadden), Conservation as the Indian Saw It
Albert Bierstadt, Sunset with Cottonwoods
Edward Bierstadt, The Adirondacks: Artotype Views in the North Woods,
J.W. Rushton, Rushton Canoes and Boats
Marjorie Kaniehtonkie Skidders, Looking into the Future
David H. Burr, Map of the County of Clinton
Vintage Adirondack lithographs
In the Adirondack Mountains, travel brochure published by New York Central and Hudson River Railroad
Charlie Reinertsen, Northern Peatlands No. 3
