Join us next week on Sunday, June 26, 2022 at 2 PM for a special event where we’ll unveil two paintings by 19th-century American portrait artist, Ammi Phillips, that were stolen and missing from HHS for fifty years. The two portraits, returned with the help of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, depict prominent New Paltz residents Dirck D. Wynkoop (1738-1827) and his wife Annatje Eltinge (1748-1827). This event will feature presentations by Josephine Bloodgood, HHS Director of Curatorial and Preservation Affairs; Carol Johnson, HHS Trustee and Coordinator of the Haviland-Heidgerd Historical Collection at Elting Memorial Library; and guests, who will relay the story of the paintings’ shocking theft and amazing recovery.
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