Queens College (Godwin Ternbach Museum)

The Godwin-Ternbach Museum, part of the City University of New York and located in Flushing, NY, will use grant funds to conserve Humbert Arcamonte’s painting, Washington Irving’s House c. 1930-1940. Depicting the famous author’s Manhattan home, said to be at the corner of 17th Street and Irving Place (named for the author), the painting depicts a village scene of red-brick houses and tree-lined streets, traveled by horse-drawn carriages. Created under the WPA program, the painting is one of four such works donated to the museum that act as both historic and artistic documents of the period. Once conserved, the painting will go on exhibit so that scholars and community members alike will have access to the stories this painting may unlock.