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5th annual New Jersey Arts Collective College Winner (Montclair State University – Montclair, NJ) Undergraduate in Music Composition Hometown – Toms River, NJ College Honorable Mention Winners Nicole De Maio, Whirlwind (Montcair State University – Montclair, NJ) Undergraduate in Music Composition and Music Education Hometown – Toms River, NJ Molly Rotondo, Defeating Enthrallment (St. Peter’s College – Jersey City, NJ) Undergraduate in Criminal Justice and Music Hometown – Little Falls, NJ Pre-College Winners Siddarth Viswanathan, Whirlwind Senior at East Brunswick High School – East Brunswick, NJ Tyler Rubin, Cyclonic Calm Senior at Somerville High School – Somerville, NJ Pre-College Honorable Mention Winner Kevin Madison, Spring Winds Freshman at North Plainfield High School – North Plainfield, NJ All pieces were performed at the COMPOSER’S FORUM on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at 2pm at WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY, Hunsiker Theater Pieces by Thomas Oltarzewski, Nicole De Maio, Molly Rotondo, Siddarth Viswanathan,Tyler Rubin and Kevin Madison will be performed on Sunday, May 8 at 1pm at the PICTURES 2010 CONCERT at the Montclair Art Museum along with the Ionisation Pictures 2010 Commission, Whirlwind by Amanda Harberg.
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J. Scott Hartley |
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Jonathan Scott Hartley (1845 - 1912) Jonathan Scott Hartley, a late nineteenth century sculptor, helped influence the newly developing artistic center of Montclair, New Jersey. Hartley, son-in-law to the famous landscape painter George Inness, was born in Albany, New York and was first employed in a marble monument yard. It wasn’t until later that he was able to work in a studio with one of the most famous neo- classical American artists of the day, Erastus Dow Palmer. Hartley then went abroad, spending most of his time in London, Berlin, and Paris, where he studied the great sculptors. He returned to New York in 1875, and soon produced his acclaimed piece The Whirlwind, in 1878. After his marriage to Helen Inness in 1888, Hartley moved to Montclair, where he continued to work as a sculptor. “The Hartleys lived next to the great landscape painter in a reconstructed farmhouse, connected to the Inness house by a covered passage. There was a large studio on the grounds which was used by both the painter and his sculptor son-in-law.”(1) At this time his focus was on the production of portrait busts, many of them actors portraying their most famous roles. Toward the end of his life Hartley returned to New York, where he died in 1912. Dana E. Stoy (2003), The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
(1) William H. Gerdts,
Painting and Sculpture in New Jersey (Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand,
1964), pp.189-190 from David B. Dearinger, Painting and Sculpture in the Collection of National Academy of Design (v. 1).
Mr. Hartley’s fame is
largely due to his ideal subjects in clay, one of which, entitled “The
Whirlwind,” created no end of public discussion in 1878. This remarkable
work, the personification of the whirlwind, was first exhibited in 1878,
the year in which Mr. Hartley was made an associate of the Academy of
Design. This beautiful nude figure of a woman, involved in whirls of
drapery, appears to spin in perfect poise, in a pillar of cloud. The
criticism which it aroused was due to a certain feeling that action is
not permissible in sculpture. Mr. Hartley’s works are exceedingly
numerous, and include the statue of Ericsson, which graces Battery Park,
and a splendid statue of Daguerra, in Washington. |
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