Watkins Glen Resident Artist, James Hope
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From 1872 until his death in 1892, landscape artist Capt. James Hope had an art gallery next to the gorge of Watkins Glen. A lesser known figure of the Hudson River School of landscape painters, Hope captured the beauty of the glen on his canvases and realized his life’s dream of supporting himself and his family with his landscape art. Tony Ingraham tells the second half of this story in this encore episode of Walk in the Park (#131) following the previous episode (130) that was cablecast on Ithaca channel 13 last week. You can watch both parts online anytime.
Tony originally gave this illustrated presentation in February 2016 to an audience at the Rockwell Museum in Corning, NY.,
Walk in the Park, a commercial-free, public access cable TV series in Ithaca, NY is produced by Owl Gorge Productions a Finger Lakes Tourism Alliance partner.
