INDIA HOUSE FOUNDATION

OUR TENTH YEAR PRESERVING MARITIME ART AND HISTORY

Kent Barwick-Municipal Art Society President Emeritus

Honors Peter Stanford at India House Foundation Event.

"Ships, Explorers and the World Trade Center" Click here for presentation

"SHIPS, EXPLORERS AND THE WORLD TRADE CENTER"

Exhibition open to the Public February 2-26, 2010 for Group Tours and General information Click Here

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INDIA HOUSE FOUNDATION TRUSTEES

·         Bruce R. Bent

·         Dwight Demeritt, Jr. Esq.

·         Gerard Fernandez, Jr, Esq.,

·         Svend Hansen, Jr.,

·         Miriam Moran

·         Niels W. Johnsen, President

·         Marshall P. Keating, Esq.,

·         Captain James J. McNamara,

·         Christopher C. Schwabacher, Esq.

·         Margaret D. Stocker

Cocktails,Luncheon and Exhibit Preview!!!

“SHIPS, EXPLORERS and the WORLD TRADE CENTER” is an exhibition open to the public February 2-28, 2010, curated by Margaret Stocker, Trustee, India House Foundation, and hosted by India House Inc., One Hanover Square, New York City. Over 2009 the India House Foundation has sponsored research and conservation of objects found on the site of the World Trade Center prior to 2001 to separate facts from fictions surrounding some of New York's oldest maritime relics. More

Fitz Henry Lane, American Luminist Painter

For recent breakthoughs in Fitz Henry Lane scholarship see: The Magazine Antiques, Collectors Notes by Eleanor Gustafson

"Fitz Who Lane?" by Sarah Dunlap and Stephanie Buck, The Magazine Antiques, June 2005.

"Another piece in the Fitz Henry Lane name puzzle" by Margaret Stocker, The Magazine Antiques, August 2007.

For newly discovered Lane in the South Street Seaport Museum see: Seaport Summer 2007, “The Ship is Ready” by Margaret Stocker

Cape Ann Historical Museum and Spanierman Gallery, NYC, 2007 exhibition: “Fitz Henry Lane and Mary Mellen: Old Mysteries and New Discoveries” curated by John Wilmerding.

Fitz Henry Lane scholar John Wilmerding with India House Foundation Trustee Margaret Stocker at fundraiser "The Mysteries of Fitz Henry Lane" at India House January 31, 2007. Stocker and Wilmerding are collaborating on a history of the Maritime Collection at India House for publication in 2010 through the India House Foundation.

Clipper Ship FLYING CLOUD

"A Celebration of the Clipper Ship FLYING CLOUD"

October 10, 2007, Fundraiser

Arthur Donovan's Address "A Celebration of the Clipper Ship FLYING CLOUD"

Stephen Perkins' remarks "FLYING CLOUD and The First Female Navigator, my ancestor Eleanor Creesy" 1854

The India House Foundation and Bowne House Historical Society Thanks the following Individuals & Institutions for their Generous Support

Cadets from the Maritime College, State University of New York, Fort Schuyler, attended the October 10, 2007 fundraiser "A Celebration of America's Clipper Ship FLYING CLOUD" as the guests of the India House Foundation.Standing: Keynote speaker Arthur Donovan, Emeritus Professor, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, King's Point, Captain Eric Johanssen, Professor, Fort Schuyler, and Rosemary Vietor, President of the Bowne House Historical Society, event partners, in

front of ship models of the FLYING CLOUD and FLYING FISH, contenders in 1854 for the fastest voyage by sail between New York and San Francisco. Arthur Donovan and Joe Bonney’s most recent book on maritime history is “The Box that Changed the World: Fifty Years of Container Shipping – An Illustrated History”, 2006.

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