John Mackie Falconer
United States (born Scotland) 1820-1903 Untitled, 1882
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Spencer Museum of Art: The Elmer F. Pierson Fund, 1999.0198
Born in Edinburgh Scotland, Falconer emigrated to the United Sates in 1861. Described as “a central figure in the cultural life of nineteenth-century Brooklyn – a hardware merchant and amateur artist” Falconer is known to have taken special interest in the disappearing buildings that gave evidence to the Dutch and English heritage of the region (Ferber). Ferber notes that “Indeed, Falconer seems to have often recorded Long Island’s buildings just prior to or even during their destruction” (Ferber, 21) The farmhouse in this print, with its stepped gables, is doubtless an example of a Dutch style farmhouse, probably on Long Island or in the Catskills.
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