#Huguette Clark

[oldpaintings]

Scene from My Window, After the Snow Storm by Huguette Clark (American, 1906--2011)

#huguette clark #20th century #american #art #paintings #women painters

[random-brushstrokes]

Huguette Clark - Portrait of a Japanese woman (n.d.)

#women painters #huguette clark #american art #portrait

[gregdotorg]

When reclusive copper heiress Huguette Clark's Degas got stolen, she didn't want a fuss. When it turned up in the collection of the H&R Block guy, she didn't want a fuss. Bloch made a secret deal where Clark donated it to the Nelson-Atkins, where they'd already promised all their art. The Blochs got the credit, and to borrow it back until their deaths. Clark got the $10m tax deduction—and a full-scale photo reproduction, which did not turn up at her various estate auctions in 2014-17.

image: Edgar Degas, Dancer making pointe, 1874-76, pastel and gouache on paper on board, 19 1/4 x 14 1/2 inches, collection: the Nelson-Atkins Museum

#edgar degas #huguette clark #facsimile object #the way rich folk are happy with a copy as long as they also get a tax deduction says a lot

[madamescarlette]

JANUARY 2023 (an exercise in gradual motion)

wordsofnoconsequence / Joni Mitchell by Joel Bernstein / holybeings / Moonstruck (1987) / Traci Brimhall / Julia Alvarez / Huguette Clark / Talin Tahajian / Kazuhiko Fukuōji / Maude Latour / Eileen Myles

#web weaving #not entirely certain what this is but i'm treating it like a lyric journal #how funny to be precariously and continually moved by every aspect of your life whether you like it or not!!!

[morbidology]

Copper heiress, Huguette Clark, owned a number of pristine properties throughout her lifetime. One of these was the Bellosguardo, a beautiful secluded mansion in Santa Barbara, California. 

Over the last few decades of her life, she became a recluse and didn’t step foot inside the mansion, preferring to hide away from the world in her Manhattan apartment before moving to a private hospital room where she remained until she died. 

After she passed away, it was revealed that Clark hadn’t been inside the alluring mansion, which contains original paintings by Cézanne Renoir and Van Gogh, since the 1960s. Regardless of her absence, caretakers had kept the house immaculate, as if waiting for her return. 

The manor today remains the same as the day she left, never to return.

#Bellosguardo #history #houses #homes

[eclecticharmonytimemachine]

Huguette Clark (1906-2011) Grey Pagoda with Red Bridge & Cherry Blossoms

[princejohnii]

La Llamada De Fidel Castro a Su Hija-Zinforosa-Tio casildo-Myrna melendez/macys owner/huguette clark

#Youtube

[int0design]

propertiesofjoy:peter brown / huguette clark https://georgianadesign.tumblr.com/post/707393445924388864

[travel-voyages]

A history of Santa Barbara - May 22, 2022

The city on California's southern coast would evolve dramatically over the course of four centuries, from the home of Chumash people to a Spanish settlement and mission, to an oceanfront jewel whose architecture and lifestyle have become the epitome of the California Dream.

Jane Pauley takes a walk through the history of the "American Riviera."

Santa Barbara County, CA - Official Website

A history of Santa Barbara The city on California's southern coast would evolve dramatically over the course of four centuries, from the home of Chumash people to a Spanish settlement and mission, to an oceanfront jewel whose architecture and lifestyle have become the epitome of the California Dream. Jane Pauley takes a walk through the history of the "American Riviera."May 22, 2022 https://www.cbsnews.com/video/a-history-of-santa-barbara/ Santa Barbara and the Sea https://www.youtube.com/embed/7XWMZgyifVk

Bellosguardo, a reclusive heiress' historic home https://www.youtube.com/embed/AXE-uslzXyQ Built in the 1930s, high above the Santa Barbara coast, the mansion known as Bellosguardo was the summer home of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark, who instructed her staff to never change a thing – and they didn't. Jane Pauley pays a visit to a fabled home constructed from a Gilded Age fortune (made famous from the bestseller "Empty Mansions"), which will open its doors to public tours for the first time later this year.

Montecito's El Fureidis, a Gilded Age treasure in Santa Barbara Built in 1906 in the Montecito Hills above Santa Barbara, Calif., El Fureidis, the Mediterranean-inspired home of real estate tycoon James Waldron Gillespie, is an oasis of tranquility and class, in a lush 10-acre property. Jane Pauley takes us inside. https://www.youtube.com/embed/2XI3JqbiPKA https://youtu.be/2XI3JqbiPKA Santa Barbara Downtown - California Walking Tour [4K] https://youtu.be/S2xXUV5vpho https://www.youtube.com/embed/S2xXUV5vpho Santa Barbara California History and Cartography (1877) Santa Barbara California history and cartography is explored and examined from this vintage map that was originally produced in 1877. In the video we look at historical elements that make this map so great. The map itself is a birdseye perspective map in that we see building architecture, changes in elevation, streets, vegetation and much more. https://www.youtube.com/embed/2iuF8PSnHMM

Comments

Nice map, but you are clearly not from Santa Barbara! Every one from SB has no problem pronouncing street names like Anacapa, Anapamu (Chumash names) and Figueroa.

Great map. I don't mind the mispronunciations, but the whipping around from the key to the map is disconcerting. I simple writing down of the key ahead of time for the recorder to reference, and a plan to the video would have made this an awesome history lesson.

#Youtube

[random-brushstrokes]

Huguette Clark - View over Central Park from My Window (n.d.)

#women painters #Huguette Clark #interior #american art

[nonfictiongenrereviews]

Huguette Clark was the daughter of a wealthy copper magnate, W.A. Clark. She had the most privileged of childhoods. Living in 120 room mansions, world travel, extraordinary amounts of money. However, for the latter half of her life Huguette lived as a recluse in a hospital, never setting foot in any of her many glamorous homes. Huguette lived through some of histories most tumultuous days, and extraordinary times, but all she seemingly was was a wealthy woman who misspent that wealth and squandered her incredible life.

This biography was billed as the story of an incredibly wealthy, reclusive woman, who seemingly had it all, yet never partook of what she had. Well, the woman, Huguette Clark, did not even make an appearance as a fully fledged, not just mentioned, individual until over quarter of the way into the book. What the book was, in my view, truly a biography of, was the men in her  life, mainly her father. Even when Huguette did appearance in the text, that would be followed by five or six chapters devoted to only to her father or uncle. It was false advertising in the extreme, in my view. I understand that it was her father that made all the money, but then you need to say the book is about him, not about her.

In addition this biography that was described as having elements of mystery, drama and intrigue, was basically just about an incredibly wealthy woman, who misspent that wealth in grand ways and who lived as a recluse for most of her 104 years. This biography promised to be much more than, in my opinion, it was. I was very disappointed, and frankly bored reading it. It was a shame because the book described really could have been interesting.

[propertiesofjoy]

peter brown / huguette clark

#i receive great joy from these. #huguette clark #peter brown #art #parallels #j

[coltonwbrown]

Scene from my Window - Night Huguette Clark

#huguette clark #new york city

[poemaseletras]

Art 1 by Peter Brown, Art 2 by Huguette Clark

#pl #art #Peter Brown #Huguette Clark

[sweet-macaron]

A Day in the Life of Little Huguette Clark, 1928

#huguette clark #1920s #princess #pink #pink aesthetic #princess aesthetic #girly #pastel #pastel blog #pastel aesthetic #aesthetic #princesscore #vintage

[joannalannister]

“Huguette’s girlhood home, the most expensive house in New York”

“When this modern palace is completed,” the New York World reported, “it will rival in beauty and richness the mythical palace of Aladdin.” W.A. Clark had selected the site in 1895, paying $220,000 for the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and Seventy-Seventh Street, prominently situated in the middle of New York’s Millionaires’ Row, up the avenue from Vanderbilt and Astor, down from Carnegie. By the time it was finished in 1911, observers called it the “biggest, bulliest and brassiest of all American castles,” “the most remarkable dwelling in the world,” and “without doubt the most costly and, perhaps, the most beautiful private residence in America.” 

The 121-room mansion was also Huguette’s childhood home from age five to eighteen. This was a fairy-tale castle come to life, with secret entrances, mysterious sources of music, and treasures collected from all the world. When Andrée and Huguette would arrive home in their chauffeured automobile, accompanied by a private security guard, they passed through the open carriage gates—bronze gates twenty feet high, fit for a palace. 

The bottom half of the six-story Beaux Arts mansion was not so unusual in its day, and might not have stood out if it were W.A.’s bank building. But on the top half, every inch was decorated with Parisian Beaux Arts ostentation, a profusion of lions, cherubs, and goddesses. Oh, but the architects weren’t done. Soaring above the mansion was an ornate domed tower reaching nine stories, so pleased with itself that it continued to an open cupola. The overall effect was as if a lavish wedding cake had been designed in the daytime by a distinguished chef, and then overnight a French Dr. Seuss sneaked in to add a few extra layers. […]

Reporters who toured the home counted twenty-six bedrooms, thirty-one bathrooms, and five art galleries. Below the basement’s Turkish baths, swimming pool, and storage room for furs, a railroad spur brought in coal for the furnace, which burned seven tons on a typical day, not only for heat but also to power dynamos for the two elevators, the cold-storage plant, the air-filtration plant, and the 4,200 lightbulbs. As the girls pulled into the U-shaped driveway, they rode first into an open-air main courtyard and then under an archway into a vestibule decorated with a fountain of Tennessee marble. The fountain displayed a satyr’s head projecting from a great clamshell, while two marble mermaids played in the spray. Their carriage then passed into a rotunda, where the young ladies of the house could disembark.

—Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune 

#huguette clark #empty mansions #women in history #architecture #stuff I read