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The phrase “air castle” appears just once in Theodate Pope’s diaries, as she emerges from adolescence and is on the brink of womanhood, while still living in Cleveland, Ohio and before she enrolled in Miss Porter’s School in Farmington in the fall of 1886. It was a defining period of her life that would eventually bring her family to this central Connecticut village. The diary passage foretells what her life would become.
Tony Yurgaitis, owner of Arethusa Farm in Litchfield, has been collecting since boyhood. From Renaissance Madonnas to contemporary paintings, Picasso ceramics to Murano glass, and folkloric weathervanes to Danish silver, Tony has acquired works of art of all kinds from all around the world. He is a collector who lives with his art, thoughtfully placing each object within the stunningly beautiful interiors of his home. In these rooms, he enjoys and shares the collection with his family and friends.
Though the two never met, it is unquestionable that Theodate, working within the small radius of Connecticut and New York, knew of Wright, who has been described as the “greatest American Architect of all time”…
Alfred Pope: An Evolution of Ingenuity is the first major publication created in conjunction with Hill-Stead Museum’s temporary loan exhibition program.
Hill-Stead Museum was thrilled to announce its first Annual Juried Members Exhibition, which is intended to connect present day artists with the Museum’s natural beauty and collection masterworks.
The concept of “born in 1867” came from the nearly identical birthdates of Hill-Stead’s founder, Theodate Pope Riddle, and writer Laura Ingalls Wilder, February 2 and February 7 respectively.
Alfred Pope: An Evolution of Ingenuity illuminates a long-overlooked figure in the history of Hill-Stead and of American art collecting.
Seeking freedom within oppressive societies, women throughout history have gravitated toward alternative creative and spiritual practices.
Hill-Stead embodies a passion for all manner of design—architecture, interior appointments, artistic vision painted on a canvas or etched into a plate and transferred to paper, horticultural…the list goes on.
