John Freeman Gill writes about the Anonymous Arts Recovery Society in The Atlantic. Photo by John Bartelstone.
Far earlier than just about anyone else, Ivan C. Karp recognized that many of New York’s late-Victorian stone and terra-cotta facade ornaments—keystones, plaques, and friezes, even those that embellished tenements and rowhouses—were artworks in their own right. Spurred to action by their wholesale destruction at a time of galloping development, Karp spent several years scooping up the forsaken fragments by himself, before joining forces with a few friends whom he led on clandestine raids of demolition sites. In homage to the immigrant artisans who had created the unsigned ornaments, Karp named the group the Anonymous Arts Recovery Society.
And the Anonymous Arts Museum in Charlotteville, NY:
Anonymous Arts Museum
606-610 Charlotte Valley Road
Charlotteville, NY
Open Sundays only from 10 am - 3 pm. Free.
607.397.8606
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