The Gilded Refuge Where Manhattan's Elite Escaped to Water's Edge — a tableau of shingled verandas and yacht-flecked harbor
every line of the portrait carrying the brass and bluster of a man who believed the strenuous life was a national posture as much as a personal creed
Archival pigment inks on premium canvas
The Atlantic stretches behind them like a stage curtain
mailed between saltwater and smokestack
55th Spanish-American War Congress, 1899 Size:36x24 The Gilded Refuge Where Manhattan's55th Spanish American War Congress, 1899 a group portrait of the legislators who steered the republic through its imperial debut, their composed rows belying the volatile session that ratified the Treaty of Paris and inherited Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines in a single stroke of pen. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical