by Lisa Bramen | Nov 21, 2019 | October 2019
Jean-Jacques Duval creates masterpieces from his Willsboro studio “Artists don’t retire,” says Jean-Jacques Duval, sitting in his Willsboro studio in front of an unfinished abstract painting on an easel. Another work in progress leans against a wall. On his drafting...
by Peggy Byrne | Jan 2, 2019 | History
Throughout 2019, in celebration of Adirondack Life’s 50th anniversary, we’re sharing an article per week from our archives—one for each year since 1970. First up is an interview with the acclaimed artist Rockwell Kent, by Peggy Byrne. Byrne was such a...
by Elizabeth Folwell | Aug 24, 2016 | August 2016
Photograph by Najma Pirani Rogers The Lake Placid homecoming of an artist with a global perspective Nip Rogers sees things differently. Maybe it’s because he’s six feet seven inches tall. Maybe it’s because he’s traveled the world—from his home in Lake Placid...
by Anne Mackinnon | Aug 4, 2016 | February 1994, From the Archives
HAROLD WESTON was born on February 14, 1894, in Merion, Pennsylvania, but his real life began—according to the evidence of his memoir—when his father took him up Mount Marcy for the first time, at the age of nine. “Well I do remember the sound of the trees...
by Anne Mackinnon | Aug 5, 2014 | From the Archives, June 2001
In the early 1950s, at a bend in the Ausable River near the foot of Ebenezer Mountain, Arto Monaco conceived and built a place he called Land of Makebelieve. There had never been anything quite like it. Less a “theme park” as we understand the term today...