Name/Title
Chappaqua Friends' Meeting House [Side View]Entry/Object ID
1987-4-5Description
Framed watercolor painting of Chappaqua Friends' Meeting House, side view, with meeting house sign hanging on post in front [Quaker Meeting House] by W. Stuart Archibald, 1938.Artwork Details
Medium
Watercolor, Watercolor on paperSubject
Chappaqua Friends' Meeting HouseContext
The Chappaqua Friends’ Meeting House has long been a favorite of local artists. It is unquestionably the most familiar landmark in New Castle. Constructed in stages during the last half of the eighteenth century, its simple, unadorned form reflects the ideals of the Quakers who founded it and who have kept it in uninterrupted service ever since.
W. Stuart Archibald (1910-1987) grew up in Chappaqua and may have been among the first graduates of the new Horace Greeley School in 1929. He attended Antioch College and then became a professional artist, specializing in watercolors of landscapes and marine subjects. In 1938, he was commissioned by Gladys Marshall to paint a series of watercolors of Chappaqua subjects, mostly the Quaker meetinghouse and Ms. Marshall’s own home, the historic Stony Hollow farmhouse on Quaker Road.Made/Created
Artist
W. Stuart Archibald