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Lydia Brewster Hubbard
Lydia Brewster Hubbard was an exuberant woman. She had
eight children and was successful enough at painting
flowers to put a son through Yale. Born in 1849, she was
raised on the Brewster farm, and met her husband Rollin
Hubbard when he was a student at the Cream Hill
Agricultural School. She moved with Hubbard to Ohio,
where he worked for the family lumber business. They
spent summers in Cornwall.
Lydia's heavy parental responsibilities did
not
prevent her studying several weeks during many winters
at the Art Students League in New York. She died in 1911
in California, and was buried in the North Cornwall
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Still Life with Poppies
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Lewis Gannett; Ruth
Gannett
Cream Hill became a favorite location
for the artists and writers who inhabited Cornwall in
the 20th century, claiming among others Lewis and Ruth
Gannett, who respectively wrote and illustrated the book
Cream Hill: Discoveries of a Weekend Countryman, based
on their experiences there. Lewis Gannett described the
reforestation process that transformed the look of Cream
Hill and much of the rest of Cornwall as less and less
of the land was farmed. "I have watched what twenty
years can do in my own hill pasture. In 1924 I took a
snapshot, looking down across an open
fern-and-boulder-strewn pasture slope to the house and
barns. Today, from the spot where I stood with my Kodak
in 1924, you cannot even see a roof. The pasture has
become the kind of dense, poor forest known here-abouts
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Ruth Gannett made this drawing of her
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James
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Born in Whitby,
Ontario, Canada, James Moser became a landscape painter
in oil and watercolor and was awarded the first Corcoran
Prize by the Washington Watercolor Club. He married
Martha Scoville in 1877.
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James Thurber 1894-1961 |
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Birthplace: Columbus, Ohio Thurber's
witty short stories and lumpy cartoons were a
popular mainstay of The New Yorker
magazine in the 1930s and 1940s. A Midwestern
boy with an urbane twist, Thurber mixed comical
reminiscences of his Ohio childhood with wry
observations on modern times and the battle of
the sexes. (His best-known story is
The
Secret Life of
Walter Mitty, the tale of a henpecked
husband who escapes into heroic daydreams.)
Thurber's funny, loopy, absurdist cartoons
featured men, women, dogs and other strange
animals. He was by turns hilarious and
melancholy, and his darker nature seemed to come
out in stories and cartoons about husbands and
wives: the wives often domineering and
sarcastic, the husbands harried or bitterly
triumphant. Like
Mark Twain, Thurber became increasingly
morose in his last decade, although he continued
to write until his death. His books include the
spoof Is Sex Necessary? (1929, with E.B.
White), the fanciful "autobiography" My Life
and Hard Times (1933), the New Yorker
memoir The Years With Ross (1959), and
the short story collections The Middle-Aged
Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935) and The
Thurber Carnival (1933). He also wrote the
1950 children's book The Thirteen Clocks.
With Elliot Nugent he wrote the play The Male
Animal (published 1940).
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Mark Van Doren
1894-1973 |
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American poet and critic, b. Hope,
Vermilion co., Ill., grad. Univ. of
Illinois, 1914, Ph.D. Columbia, 1920;
brother of Carl Van Doren. He taught
English at Columbia (1920–59), where he
was a renowned and dedicated teacher. He
was also on the staff of the Nation
(1924–28, 1935–38). With Carl Van Doren
he wrote American and British
Literature since 1890 (1939). He
wrote critical studies of various
authors, including John Dryden (1920)
and Nathaniel Hawthorne (1949), compiled
several anthologies, and collected his
lectures on poetry in The Noble Voice
(1946). As a poet Van Doren was deeply
influenced by Wordsworth. Among his
volumes of poems are Collected Poems,
1922–1938 (1939; Pulitzer Prize) and
Morning Worship and Other Poems
(1959). Other writings include novels
and a play, The Last Days of Lincoln
(1959). He also wrote the influential
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Carl Van Doren 1885-1950
American editor and author, born in Hope, Vermilion
county, Ill., graduated University of Illinois, 1907,
Ph.D. Columbia, 1911; brother of Mark Van Doren. He
lectured at Columbia from 1911 and was an associate in
English until 1930. He was literary editor of the
Nation (1919–22) and Century Magazine
(1922–25), managing editor of The Cambridge History
of American Literature (1917–21) and editor of the
Literary Guild (1926–34). His writings include critical
works, such as Many Minds (1924), American
Literature: an Introduction (1933), a study of
Sinclair Lewis (1933), and The American Novel,
1789–1939 (1940); fiction, such as The Ninth Wave
(1926); historical works, such as his Secret History
of the American Revolution (1941) and The Great
Rehearsal (1948); and biographies, such as those of
Thomas Love Peacock (1911), Jonathan Swift (1930), and
Benjamin Franklin (1938; Pulitzer Prize).
Carl Van Doren came to Cornwall during World War I.
In his autobiography, Three Worlds, Van Doren
commented on a place be called "the greenest town in New
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The above is a partial listing of Cornwall's artists and
writers from the past.
It is an on-going project which will be updated as information is
collected.
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