Elsa Kny Steinback collection, 1830-1997.

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Elsa Kny Steinback collection, 1830-1997.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155424618

The collection contains a compilation by Frances Herman and Elaine Angel of slides and color photocopies of art works by Lake George artist Elsa Steinback. These photographs mainly illustrate Steinback's depiction of botanical subjects such as flowers (especially wildflowers) and vegetables, but also include renditions of landscapes, views of Lake George, boats, old equipment, and views of the Southwest and Arizona. She worked mainly with oils, watercolors, and pastels.

1 cubic foot (2 boxes)

New York State Historical Documents (Albany, N.Y.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6867091

New York State Historical Documents (Albany, N.Y.)

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Angel, Elaine.

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Steinback, Elsa Kny, 1911-1996.

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Artist and author Elsa Kny Steinback (1911-1996) was born in New York City, but spent summers at Shelving Rock on Lake George at a house built by her grandparents. She became interested in art in high school and received training at the Pratt Institute and with artist Eric Pape. For years she spent winters in Brooklyn, where she had an art studio. In the 1940s, she had a winter home built in Bolton Landing and continued to spend summers across the lake at Shelving Rock. Most of her artistic and ...

Stoddard, Seneca Ray, 1844-1917

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Seneca Ray Stoddard was an American landscape photographer, publisher, and conservationist active in the Adirondack Region of New York State. From the description of Seneca Ray Stoddard collection, 1848-1916. (New York State Historical Documents). WorldCat record id: 155514215 Seneca Ray Stoddard (1844-1917) was an American landscape photographer, naturalist, writer, poet and cartographer. Born in Saratoga County, New York, he taught himself painting (one his fi...

Herman, Frances.

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