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Before conservation, The First Gentlemen of Virginia is grimy with dirt and unusable in its current state

After conservation, the painting is clean and ready to be exhibited; note how the details of George Washington, his horse, and his dogs truly come to life
   

Conserving the Dunsmore Collection

Conservation Update (Spring 2010)
A total of 34 of our 45 John Ward Dunsmore paintings have been identified as needing conservation treatment.  To date, 27 of those 34 have been sponsored and conserved.  However, there are still 7 paintings that need treatment. The Museum needs to raise approximately $40,000 to complete the needed conservation treatment of all of its John Ward Dunsmore paintings.  Therefore, we look to you for assistance; the average cost of conservation of a painting and its frame is $3,500 (larger paintings with ornate frames cost more). 

Complete sponsorship of a painting and frame will be recognized with a notation on the painting’s title card whenever it is displayed as well as in texts that mention or discuss the painting in detail.

Sponsorship Update:

Our heartfelt thanks to Lawrence K. Casey, Jr., SR Texas, for his generous support of the conservation of “Spirit of ’76.” In the past, Mr. Casey has also sponsored three other Dunsmore paintings: “Bunker Hill: Fight at the Rail Fence,” “Arousing the Minutemen,” and “Paul Revere, 1775”. Each of these works is supported by matching grants from ExxonMobil. Mr. Casey grew up along the Battle Road in Massachusetts, so these paintings are especially important to him.

We’re thankful to Leonard Augsberger and Joel Orosz for their recent sponsorship of “Washington Inspecting the First U.S. Coins, 1792.” Mssrs. Augsberger and Orosz will discuss the image in their upcoming book “Pictures of the First United States Mint: The Legacy of Frank H. Stewart” (August 2010, Whitman Publishing, Atlanta, GA).

We want to recognize the Color Guard of Pennsylvania for their recent support of the conservation of “Washington and Members of Congress Leaving Christ Church, Philadelphia.” The Color Guard has sponsored four other Dunsmore paintings in the past. For this, we are very grateful.

 


Paintings still available for sponsorship are:

John Adams Proposing Washington for General
Washington Leaving Mount Vernon for his Inauguration
Lafayette at the Dinner of General Gates
General George Washington (portrait with hat)
General Henry Knox
Fox Hunt at Mount Vernon - The Start
General George Washington (portrait with no hat)


Please contact the Museum Curator at 212-425-1778 for further details, or email at: curator@frauncestavernmuseum.org

You can also send your tax-deductible donation, made out to "Sons of the Revolution NY" to: Sons of the Revolution, ATTN: Administrator, 54 Pearl Street, New York, NY 10004; donations can also be made online here:

 


We would like to thank those who have graciously donated in the past.


The following donors have provided 100% sponsorship of a painting:

The Bay and Paul Foundations
 - Washington & Staff at Ft. Lee

Washington & Staff at Ft. Lee
Color Guard of the PA Society of Sons of the Revolution:
 - Captured Flags from Yorktown
 - Lafayette and Washington at Valley Forge
 - Valley Forge - Lafayette at Washington's Headquarters
      - Currently at the Conservator
Robert N. McKay, Esq.:
 - The Surrender at Yorktown, (call to Parley)


Sons of the Revolution in the State of New Jersey, the 225th Anniversary of the Battle of Springfield Committee, and the Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York:
 - Battle of Springfield, N.J. (Give 'em Watts Boys)

Battle of Springfield, N.J. (Give 'em Watts Boys)

 
Westmoreland Davis Memorial Foundation, the Museum of Hounds and Hunting, Robert N. Ferrer, and John M. Hilliard:
 - Fox Hunt at Mt. Vernon - The Meet
 - Return from the Fox Hunt
 - The First Gentlemen of Virginia

Fox Hunt at Mt. Vernon - before


Fox Hunt at Mt. Vernon - after

We also received individual donations from: Sondra Blewer, Barry S. Cohen, Lawrence K. Casey, Jr., Muriel Talbot French, A. Neil Hefti, Richard Hershner, John Hilliard, Alexander Katlan Conservator, Inc., Ambassador John L. Loeb, Jr., Lisa Beth MacKinlay, Eugenia & Dennis McCrary, Edward O'Hara, M.D., Frederick W. Pattison, Joseph B. Rosenblatt, Elizabeth & Stanley D. Scott, Alice & Roger Soderberg, Roland S. Summers, M.D., P.C., The Veteran Corps of Artillery, Earl D. Weiner, and Lucy Pullen Werner. Finally, we want to recognize 100% staff participation from the Museum and SRNY and Susan Hefti for her assistance with this endeavor.

Fraunces Tavern Museum and Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York sincerely appreciates your support.
   

 




 

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