WOODSTOCK, N.Y. — The Woodstock Historical Society has received two grants worth more than $12,000 combined to support art conservation, an announcement said.
The first grant, worth $6,200, is from the New York State Council on the Arts and the Greater Hudson Heritage Conservation Treatment Grant Program. The grant is to be put toward the restoration of three paintings: “Autumn” (1919) by Carl Eric Lindin, “Shagbarks” (c. 1920-1925) by Allen Dean Cochran, and “Pine Grove Pleasure Park” (1938) by Dorothy Varian. The paintings will be preserved by the Nadia Ghannam Fine Art Conservation.
All three artists whose works will be preserved were important figures in the town’s artistic history, the announcement said. Lindin, born in Sweden, came to Woodstock in 1902 and was a founder of the Woodstock Artists Association. He is well-known for landscape paintings. Cochran was a student at the Art Students League’s Woodstock School of Landscape Painting and is also known for landscape painting.
Varian, also a landscape painter, came to Woodstock around 1917 to study at the Woodstock School of Landscape Painting. Upon her death in 1985, Varian left a “large bequest” to the Woodstock Artists Association, earmarked to establish a building fund for a permanent gallery of Woodstock art, according to the announcement
The announcement said two other grants were previously awarded to the Historical Society of Woodstock through the Greater Hudson Heritage Conservation Treatment Grant Program, one in 2021 and another in 2022, to support the conservation of paintings by Arnold Blanch, Edmund Rolfe and William Arlt.
A second grant, worth $6,000, comes from the Wood Dock Foundation, to be put toward the “retention of art conservators to advise the HSW on its new building,” the announcement said. A.M. Art Conservation, based in Cold Spring in Putnam County, will advise the Historical Society of Woodstock on finishing materials for the interior of its new archival building. The organization will also suggest art storage furniture as well as modifications to accommodate the historical society’s collection of art.
Past clients of A.M. Art Conservation include the American Museum of Natural History, DIA: Beacon, and Tiffany and Co. Archives.
For more information about the Historical Society of Woodstock, visit historicalsocietyofwoodstock.org.
