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Booklet, Williamstown, the Village Beautiful (Motoring in the Berkshires), 1924 (Published by the Greylock Hotel, Main Street at North Street). Lent by Henry W. Art

Booklet, M.G. Sherman, A Day in Williamstown, 1915 (Published by the Forget-Me-Not Inn, Main Street off Southworth Street—structure still extant). Lent by Henry W. Art

Photograph, View of Stone Hill from the Thompson Memorial Chapel, photograph, mid-twentieth century. Lent by Williams College Archives

Photograph, View of Christmas Lake and Stone Hill, late nineteenth century. Lent by Williams College Archives

Photograph, View toward Williamstown Center from Stone Hill, late nineteenth century. Lent by Williams College Archives

Postcard, “Stone Hill Road, Williamstown, Mass,” c. 1907–15. Lent by Henry W. Art

Postcard, “Stone Hill Road, Williamstown Mass,” c. 1907–15. Lent by Henry W. Art

Postcard, “Stone Hill Road, Williamstown, Mass,” postmarked, 1906. Lent by Henry W. Art

Postcard, “Stone Hill Road, Williamstown, Mass,” postmarked, 1917. Lent by Henry W. Art

Postcard, “Stone Hill Road, Williamstown, Mass,” postmarked, 1914. Lent by Henry W. Art

Double postcard, “Williamstown from Stone Hill,” postmarked, 1907. Lent by Henry W. Art

Postcard, “View of Williamstown,” postmarked 1905. Lent by Henry W. Art

Postcard, “A Glimpse of the Village Williamstown, Mass,” postmarked 1913. Lent by Henry W. Art

Postcard, “Williamstown from Stone Hill,” postmarked 1909. Lent by Henry W. Art

Postcard, view of Williamstown with the Warren Estate in the foreground—now the Buxton School, early twentieth century. Lent by the Buxton School

Postcard, “The Greylock Range from Bee Hill, Williamstown, Mass,” c. 1901–07. Lent by Henry W. Art

Postcard, “Greylock Mountain and Hopper, Williamstown, Mass,” postmarked 1906. Lent by Henry W. Art

Postcard, “Greylock Mountain from Stone Hill, Williamstown, Mass,” c. 1898–1901. Lent by Henry W. Art

Postcard, “Grazing on the Green River Bank, Williamstown, Mass,” postmarked 1916. Lent by Henry W. Art

Postcard, “Four Corners and Petersburg Mountain, Williamstown, Mass,” postmarked 1915. Lent by Henry W. Art

Postcard, “Proctor Farm, Stone Hill Williamstown, Mass,” c. 1915–30. Lent by Henry W. Art

Maquette for sculpture of Georg Hegel's initial “H” designed by Mark C. Taylor. Courtesy of the artist

Mark C. Livingston, A Portraiture of Stone Hill, 1972. Paper poster, 53 x 40 1/2 in. (134.6 x 102.9 cm). The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Mark C. Livingston, original drawing for center illustration of A Portraiture of Stone Hill, 1972. 32 x 26 in. (81.3 x 66 cm). Lent by Sheafe Satterthwaite

Mark C. Livingston, Topographic drawing of Stone Hill for A Portraiture of Stone Hill, 1972. 18 x 23 3/4 in. (45.7 x 60.3 cm). Courtesy of the draughtsman

Mark C. Livingston, Ruinous Farmscape drawing for A Portraiture of Stone Hill, 1972. framed 9 x 13 3/4 in. (22.9 x 34.9 cm). Courtesy of the draughtsman

NeXus video by Mark C. Taylor

George Yeomans, (American, 1833–1895), Williamstown, Mass. As seen from Stone Hill, 1855–56. Hand-colored lithograph, 15 3/8 x 26 in. (39.1 x 66 cm). Printed by P.S. Duval Co, Philadelphia, PA. Flynt Family Collection

Side-hill plow, c. 1910. Wood and metal. Lent by Hopkins Memorial Forest–Farm Museum

Mourning Cloak butterfly, Northwest Massachusetts, fall 2015. Private collection

John Barney Wright’s Sharps rifle (Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company, Hartford, Connecticut), mid–late 19th century. Lent by the Berkshire Historical Society

Stone shards from an erratic, carbonate. Collected on Stone Hill, winter 2016

Stone wall, fieldstone replica of field walls built on Stone Hill, 1700s. Constructed by Mountain Home Landscape, spring 2016

Two-man saw, late nineteenth–early twentieth century. Metal and wood. Lent by Hopkins Memorial Forest–Farm Museum

Wildflowers, live plants. Cultivated on Stone Hill and elsewhere in Berkshire County

Cow skull, unearthed from Galusha Farm, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Lent by Mark C. Taylor

Sparrow songs, audio recordings and sonograms, Stone Hill, May 2015. Recorded by Heather Williams, Professor of Biology, Williams College

Proprietors Book of the west Township at Hoosuck, 1750–c. 1805, pen and ink in original binding. Lent by the town of Williamstown

Surveyor’s chain (Manufactured by W. & L.E. Gurley, Troy, NY), late nineteenth–early twentieth century. Steel and brass. Lent by Tom Merrill

Raccoon tracks, plaster cast, spring 2016

Panorama of grafted trees, Stone Hill Meadow, early twenty-first century. Photographed by Tucker Bair

Root ball, common buckthorn. Collected on Stone Hill, December 2015

Soil monoliths, collected on Stone Hill, 2015

 

Recovering Place: Reflecting on Stone Hill
By Mark C. Taylor
An illustrated book chronicling the land art and sculptures created by Mark C. Taylor at his home in the Berkshire hills, echoing themes found in the exhibition. Supported in part by Herbert A. Allen, Jr. and the Clark Art Institute and published by Columbia University Press. Call the Museum Store at 413 458 0520 to order.