Twin Peeks: Scenes Seen Twice, Paintings & Photographs – Virtual Exhibition
(March 19 – August 1, 2021)
Chosen entirely from LIM’s art collection, Twin Peeks will present side-by-side views of nearly 60 paintings, from the 1830s to the present, placed beside photographs of the same or similar locations and buildings. Primarily drawn from Long Island or New York City artists and locations, this project has been an adventure in discovery and documentation for LIM’s Art Collection. Artists did not leave behind GPS coordinates, titles can leave vague and uneven clues, and the Museum has only recently attempted to more carefully track the locations of places represented in their collection.
Part of the power of landscape painting is its ability to capture and evoke a certain place that resonates with the viewer’s imagination and experience. Whether working out of a tradition of the Hudson River School, Impressionism, Photo Realism, or Abstraction, artists over the past 200 years have been the recorders of a specific moment and an interpretation of the locale they chose put to canvas or paper. Occasionally, their renderings may be the only tangible documentation that remains of a location that has vanished due to the forces of modernization: road construction, real estate development, and other human- and natural-born phenomena make the landscape mutable and difficult to capture the same way, even just twenty or thirty years later
Exhibition funding was provided, in part, by
Empire National Bank
Germano & Cahill, P.C.
Humanities NY
MargolinBesunder
New York Community Bank Foundation
NYSCA
The Peter & Barbara Ferentinos Family Endowment
Robert W. Baird Incorporated/Baird Foundation, Inc.
The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation
Thank you to our generous sponsors.
If you are unable to join us in person, enjoy a portion of the exhibition from the comfort of your home.
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1. Theodore Marsden (active 1860-1890);
James S. Green’s Livery Stable;
Chelsea, Mass., n.d. (c. 1870);
Oil on canvas;
The Long Island Museum;
Bequest of Ward Melville, 1977
Exterior view of the J. S. Green Boarding and Hack Stable building, corner of Second and Broadway Streets, Chelsea Square, with street traffic, n.d. (c. 1875); Historic New England Collection, GUSN-202392
2. Louis Bouché (1896-1969);
Mamaroneck Harbor, 1956;
Oil on canvas;
The Long Island Museum;
Museum Purchase, 2000
Long Island Museum photo taken in January 2021 at Harbor Island Park, Mamaroneck, NY; Latitude: 40.945099; Longitude:-73.732075
3. Samuel Rothbort (1882-1971);
The Promenade, Brooklyn, n.d. (c. 1949);
Oil on canvas on board;
Long Island Museum;
Museum Purchase, 2002
Long Island Museum photo taken in January 2021, Shore Boulevard, Brooklyn (Manhattan Beach);
Latitude: 40.581921; Longitude: - 73.948096
4. Charles Henry Miller (1842-1922);
Freeport Oyster Houses, Sept. 1, 1885;
Oil on canvas;
The Long Island Museum;
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ward Melville, 1976
Photo taken in November 2020, by Jason Velarde, Freeport River, Freeport;
Latitude: 40.649395; Longitude: - 73.574526
5. Walter Farndon (1876-1964);
Clock Tower, Roslyn, New York, n.d.;
Oil on canvas;
The Long Island Museum;
Museum Purchase, 2007
Long Island Museum photo taken in December 2020 on Main Street, Roslyn, NY; Latitude: 40.798845; Longitude: - 73.650178
6. Daniel Pollera (b. 1953);
The Goodwin Bay House, 2017;
Oil on linen canvas;
Long Island Museum;
Gift of the artist, 2017
Taken c. 2014, by Daniel Pollera, at Horserace Channel, near Merrick Bay; Latitude: 40.636176; Longitude: - 73.554387
7. Susie Gách Peelle (b. 1944);
Pink Umbrella Eastscape, 2000;
Oil on Masonite board;
The Long Island Museum;
Gift of Michael W. Peelle, 2020
Long Island Museum photo taken in January 2021, at the west end of Jones Beach, Massapequa, NY; Latitude: 40.585327; Longitude: - 73.553982
8. Charles Webster Hawthorne (1872-1930);
Tiffany’s Estate, Laurelton Hall, 1926;
Oil on board mounted on Masonite;
The Long Island Museum;
Museum Purchase, 1994
Photograph of the home of L.C. Tiffany, Laurelton Hall, Tiffany Foundation, Oyster Bay, NY, May 1926; The Long Island Museum, Gift of Nancy W. Canetta, 1995
9. Artist unknown (signature: P. Morels)
Untitled, Scene of Eaton’s Neck Lighthouse and Eaton’s Neck Point, c. 1890
Oil on canvas
The Long Island Museum
The Baker-Pisano Collection
Gift of D. Frederick Baker, 2020
Aerial view of Eaton’s Neck Lighthouse, by Peter Van Alst, 1938 (#2138), courtesy of Northport Historical Society
10. Margery Caggiano (1929-2015);
No Exit, 2006;
Acrylic on linen canvas;
The Long Island Museum;
Gift of the artist, 2015
Long Island Museum photo taken in December 2020, westbound off the Long Island Expressway, just past exit 69; Latitude: 40.861773; Longitude: - 72.827380
11. Pat Ralph (b. 1929)
Heading West, 1998
Oil on linen canvas
The Long Island Museum
The Ronald G. Pisano Memorial Collection
Gift of the artist, 2002
Long Island Museum photo taken in December 2020, westbound off the Northern State Parkway, between exits 43 and 42N; Latitude: 40.821472; Longitude: - 73.304848
12. William Sidney Mount (1807-1868);
Crane Neck Across the Marsh, 1841;
Oil on panel;
The Long Island Museum;
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Heyser, Jr., 1961
Long Island Museum photo taken in January 2021, from West Meadow Beach, looking north towards Crane Neck Point; Latitude: 40.939404; Longitude: - 73.145138
13. Edward Lange (1846-1912);
The Setauket Rubber Factory, c. 1880;
Watercolor and ink on paper;
The Long Island Museum;
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ward Melville, 1976
Long Island Museum photo taken in October 2020,
on NY State Route 25A, Setauket; Latitude: 40.941159;
Longitude: - 73.107209
14. William de Leftwich Dodge (1867-1935);
Stony Brook Harbor, 1920;
Oil on canvas;
The Long Island Museum;
Gift of the late Mrs. William F. Youngs (Harriet C.) through her sister, Mrs. Joseph K. Choate, and Mr. Hall, care of William P. Youngs Bros., Inc., 1951
Long Island Museum photo taken November 2020, at the end of Laurel Drive, Stony Brook, overlooking the water; Latitude: 40.924910; Longitude: - 73.147069
15. Christian White (b. 1953)
Box Hill in Snow # 3, 2002
Oil on linen canvas
The Long Island Museum
Gift of the artist, 2001
Photograph taken by Christian White in February 2021 on the grounds of the Box Hill estate; Latitude: 40.888953; Longitude: - 73.177462
16. William Sidney Mount (1807-1868)
The Mount House, 1854
Oil on canvas
The Long Island Museum
Bequest of Ward Melville, 1977
Long Island Museum photograph taken looking towards the Hawkins-Mount House; Latitude: 40.928283; Longitude: - 73.147241
17. Walter Mason Oddie (1808-1865);
Long Island Inlet on the North Shore, 1850;
Oil on canvas;
The Long Island Museum;
Museum purchase, 1987
Long Island Museum photograph taken January 2021 from south bank of Flax Pond, Old Field, NY; Latitude: 40.961790; Longitude: - 73.139709
18. Charles Yardley Turner (1850-1919);
Long Island Potato Patch, 1887;
Oil on canvas;
The Long Island Museum;
Museum purchase made possible due to
Bequest from Melville A. Kitchin,
in memory of Isabelle Carr Kitchin, 1991
Long Island Museum photograph taken November 2020 from East Hampton Town property behind Gardiner Mill, East Hampton, NY; Latitude: 40.953189; Longitude: - 72.189993
19. Claus Hoie (1911-2007);
Mulford Farm, East Hampton, 1620, 1999;
Watercolor on paper;
The Long Island Museum;
Gift of the Helen and Claus Hoie;
Charitable Foundation, 2012
Long Island Museum photograph taken November 2020 from James Lane, East Hampton, NY; Latitude: 40.953189; Longitude: - 72.189993
20. Paton Miller (b. 1953);
Dune Road, 1999;
Oil on linen;
Long Island Museum;
The Ronald G. Pisano Memorial Collection
Gift of D. Frederick Baker, 2001
Long Island Museum photograph taken January 2021 from Gin Lane, Southampton, NY; Latitude: 40.869544; Longitude: - 72.391904
21. George Newell Bowers (1849-1909);
Farmhouse in East Hampton,
Near the Hook Windmill, 1893;
Oil on canvas;
Long Island Museum;
The Baker-Pisano Collection
Gift of D. Frederick Baker, 2018
Long Island Museum photograph taken January 2021 looking towards the Hook Mill, East Hampton, from the North End Cemetery; Latitude: 40.966570; Longitude: - 72.182586
22. Richard Newton, Jr. (1874-1951);
Mecox Bay, Long Island, 1895;
Oil on canvas;
The Long Island Museum;
Gift of Murray Louis and Alwin Nikolais, 2000
Long Island Museum photograph taken January 2021 from Bay Lane, Watermill, NY; Latitude: 40.934390; Longitude: - 72.247822
23. Gifford Beal (1879-1956);
Cliffs at Montauk, 1921;
The Long Island Museum;
Gift of the Estate of Gifford Beal,
courtesy of Kraushaar Galleries
Long Island Museum photograph taken January 2021 from Shadmoor State Park, Montauk, NY; Latitude: 41.036336; Longitude: - 71.926995
24. Edith Mitchill Prellwitz (1864-1944);
Untitled, Boats on Peconic Bay, 1920;
Oil on canvas;
The Long Island Museum;
Gift of Samuel B. Prellwitz
(grandson of the artist), 1995
Long Island Museum photograph taken January 2021 from the end of Indian Neck Lane, Peconic, NY; Latitude: 41.030188; Longitude: - 72.439604
25. John Button (1929-1982);
Early Evening on Noyac Path, 1980;
Watercolor on paper;
The Long Island Museum;
The Ronald G. Pisano Memorial Collection;
Gift of Sidney Talisman, 2002
Long Island Museum photograph taken January 2021 from Noyac Path, Water Mill, NY; Latitude: 40.942341; Longitude: - 72.352219
26. Ty Stroudsburg (b. 1940);
Pumpkin Field at Sunset, 2000;
Oil on canvas;
The Long Island Museum;
The Ronald G. Pisano Memorial Collection;
Gift of Ty Stroudsburg, 2001
Long Island Museum photograph taken February 2021 from North Road, Southold; Latitude: 41.0676284; Longitude: - 72.4394307
27. Lemuel Maynard Wiles (1826-1905);
From Sands Point, n.d.;
Oil on paperboard;
The Long Island Museum;
The Baker-Pisano Collection;
Gift of D. Frederick Baker, 1992
Long Island Museum photo taken in February 2021, at the waterfront of Sands Point Preserve; Latitude: 40.863890; Longitude: - 73.696984