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| Title: | In Nature’s Realm: The Art of Gerard Rutgers Hardenbergh | | Date: | 2/19/2021 - 1/9/2022 | | Address: | Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 | | Location: | Princeton, NJ | | Hours: | 10:00am - 4:00pm | | Cost/Cover: | General Admission: $10, Seniors & Students: $8, Friends of Morven and children under 6: Free, Active Military: Free | | Web Page: | https://morvenmuseum.squarespace.com/in-natures-realm | | Contact Info: | 609.924.8144 |
| Details: | In line with its mission of celebrating the art of New Jersey, Morven Museum & Garden is proud to present the first exhibition examining the work of Gerard Rutgers Hardenbergh (1856–1915). Born in New Brunswick, the great-great-grandson of Reverend Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh (1736–1790), the first president of Queens College (Rutgers University), Hardenbergh was a self-taught artist and ornithologist. As a young man he spent time at Chadwick House, the Jersey Shore’s most famous sporting club located just south of present-day Mantoloking. His early love of wildlife became a lifelong passion for the study of birds. Splitting his time between New Brunswick and the Jersey Shore, Hardenbergh collected and preserved shore birds, sending important specimens to the Biology Department at Princeton University. Intertwined with his interest in the young field of ornithology was his development as an artist. At the age of eighteen, Hardenbergh’s paintings were exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia where he was praised as “a careful and accurate ornithologist and prominent artist.” His works were scientifically accurate and popular, one newspaper later described Hardenbergh as “...a student whose books have been the woods and whose mentor Dame Nature herself…” With a studio on board his houseboat Pelican, which he moored around Bay Head, Hardenbergh became an eccentric fixture along the Jersey Shore.
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| Event is: | Every Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun | | Audience: | All Welcome | | Category: | Exhibit | | Submitted by: | contributed |
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