Golden Heart Farm is a private residence in the

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, in the United States. It served as the

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of Thomas and Weber Furlong from 1921 to 1962.Smithsonian Archives of American Art Oral history interviews with Dorothy Dehner, 1965 Oct.-1966 Artists from Manhattan came to the art colony to study with

Wilhelmina Weber Furlong Wilhelmina Weber Furlong (1878–1962) was a German American artist and teacher.The Biography of Wilhelmina Weber Furlong: The Treasured Collection of Golden Heart Farm by Clint B. Weber, Among America's earliest avant-garde elite modernist p ...

of the

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of New YorkThe Biography of Wilhelmina Weber Furlong: The Treasured Collection of Golden Heart Farm by Clint Weber,

History

Warren Counties Golden Heart Farm was the residence of the Thomas and Wilhelmina Weber Furlong. The artist chose the name for her colony while living in

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. Thomas Furlong was an accomplished

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and

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. His wife

was a major American

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ist. The farm house was built in the 1860s by Rufus Randall, a veteran of the

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, upon his return home. Randall cleared and farmed the land and raised his family there before selling the property to another Bolton man, Edson Persons. The farm was reputed to have “one of the most magnificent views of the lake in the vicinity,” according to a newspaper clipping from 1961.The lage George MirrorTales from Golden Heart, Part Three: Documenting the LifeThe Biography of Wilhelmina Weber Furlong:

References

External links

The lake George Mirror Tales From Golden Heart Part One

The lake George Mirror Tales from Golden Heart, Part Three: Documenting the Life and Times of Bolton Artist Weber Furlong

Detailed description of the Max Weber papers, 1902-2008 ...

Detailed description of the Dorothy Dehner papers, 1920 ...

Oral history interviews with Dorothy Dehner, 1965 Oct.-1966 ...

The Weber Furlong Foundation
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