Jeremiah Darling House, Stony Brook, NY

Jeremiah Darling House, Stony Brook, NY

Watercolor, gouache, and lead pencil on blue tinted paper depicting the house and grounds of Jeremiah Darling. Far left of painting shows extended dirt drive bordered by split logs leading to red carriage house with cupola behind and to left of main house, two-horse carriage and driver inside, separate portion of drive curves to meet side entrance to house at uncovered porte cochere, woman with parasol walking to the back of the house; ornamental median garden planted with small trees and flowers divides carriage house drive from main house drive. Center foreground grassy yard planted with small trees accompanied by flower planters and flagpole, three-story main house with yellow clapboarding, red shutters, and green eaves beyond, veranda on front with woman leaning on rail and man sitting and reading beside her; house likely dates to the fourth quarter of the nineteenth century or just prior; ornamental trees and shrubs to the far right extend back behind the house, green outbuilding on back edge of property. Horizon line shows brushy treeline with blue sky above, white clouds filling the majority of the upper half of the paper.

1991.60

Gift of Mr. Valdemar F. Jacobsen