{"id":77756,"date":"2022-11-10T10:37:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T10:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loopbeatzz.info\/wp\/jasper-johns-rockland-county-retreat-now-vacation-filming-spot-the-journal-news\/"},"modified":"2022-11-10T10:37:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T10:37:49","slug":"jasper-johns-rockland-county-retreat-now-vacation-filming-spot-the-journal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loopbeatzz.info\/wp\/jasper-johns-rockland-county-retreat-now-vacation-filming-spot-the-journal-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Jasper John's Rockland County retreat now vacation, filming spot – The Journal News"},"content":{"rendered":"

STONY POINT \u2014 A weathered rock wall running along West Main Street conceals a converted 1930s barn tucked into a thickly wooded hillside.
The rustic home\u2019s former owner liked it that way.
Jasper Johns has long been known as private, if not reclusive. It\u2019s not surprising the town\u2019s historian barely knew the man widely considered one of America\u2019s greatest living artists was living just a half-mile away in the 1970s and 80s.
Johns, who bought the home in 1973 for $48,000, proceeded to expand the space and install four floor-to-ceiling garage-door style rollup windows that allowed sunlight to pour into his second-floor studio and living room below.
\u201cI do most of my work here,\u201d he told The Journal News in 1976. \u201cThat\u2019s why I had to add this space. Since I made the addition and have been here full time, I\u2019m beginning to enjoy it.\u201d
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Johns, whose paintings using abstract images of American flags and targets brought him to prominence in the 1950s, has produced some of this country\u2019s most iconic artworks and influenced generations of artists.
His painting Three Flags<\/em>, which he sold to a gallery in 1959 for $600, was resold by a private owner to the Whitney Museum of American Art for $1 million in 1980 \u2014 at the time the highest price ever paid to a living artist. Johns expressed amusement at the price tag in a 1980 Journal News interview. \u201cBut of course, it has nothing to do with painting,\u201d he said.
His neighbors might not have been aware of his presence, but the home caught the attention of burglars who made off with some whiskey but ignored potentially priceless paintings and prints.
\u201cThey had otherwise excellent taste in liquor,\u201d he said in the 1976 interview, provided by the Rockland Room at the New City Library. \u201cThey took only the best Scotches and left a lot of the other bottles.\u201d
Johns, who moved back to Manhattan in 1987, sold the Stony Point home in 1995,<\/em> according to county records. Now 92, he lives in Connecticut.
Nowadays the 1.3-acre property\u2019s rustic vibe inspires fashion photographers and filmmakers, as well as welcoming overnight guests to a converted studio apartment in the standalone wooden garage.
Stephanie Gutmann, who\u2019s owned the property for nearly a decade, has been pitching it on home-sharing websites and Instagram<\/a> as a location\/vacation spot, albeit one that\u2019s showing its age.
In one online listing she describes it as \u201ca real old country house with all the quirks (and unique beauty) that implies,\u201d and advises prospective visitors to \u201cthink \u2018Grey Gardens\u2019 not Better Homes and Gardens.\u201d
The main features of the two-floor, two-bedroom 2,100-square-foot house are much the same as when Johns lived there. The exposed wooden beams, plank walls and tile and wood floors have been preserved. A wooden deck runs along the south-facing rear of the house.
Gone, however, is the backyard picnic table where Johns welcomed avant-garde composer John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham, who lived close by at the Gatehill Cooperative, also known as The Land<\/a>.
Large windows in many rooms look out onto the bucolic parcel\u2019s forested land, rock walls and the winding Cedar Pond Brook running along the periphery.
\u201cHe created light all over the place that he could paint by, and in doing so he created fantastic light for photography,\u201d Gutmann said one recent morning. \u201cPeople are very inspired by the light they get pretty much everywhere, particularly in the studio room because you have light streaming in from above and from virtually all sides.\u201d
Another clue to the home\u2019s past that remains in place is an old-fashioned bathtub whose faucets are depicted in Johns\u2019 artworks, including Racing Thoughts,<\/em> which art critic Deborah Solomon<\/a> placed among her favorites from his Stony Point period.
The 1983 painting, which is owned by the Whitney, is set in the small upstairs bathroom, whose wooden door is recognizable.
\u201cInterestingly, Jasper set some of his most remarkable paintings in the smallest room in the Stony Point house \u2014 the bathroom,\u201d Solomon, who is writing a biography about the artist, wrote in an email.
\u201cIn the painting, you cannot see the bathtub, only the faucets on the tub,\u201d Solomon said. \u201cIf there is a bather, he or she is hidden. But we do see, in vibrant colors, a wall collaged with emblems of the artist’s past, including a print by Barnett Newman, a reproduction of the Mona Lisa, and a black-and-white puzzle picturing the art dealer Leo Castelli.\u201d
Stephanie Gutmann and her husband, William Tucker, bought the home in 2013 for $380,000, according to records. Tucker became \u201cobsessed with owning it\u201d and outbid another buyer, she said.
The husband-and-wife journalists had lived there only a few weeks when Tucker was diagnosed with cancer. \u201cWe still managed to have two great parties here,\u201d she said, before Tucker died in 2016.
Needing to find a way to pay mounting expenses, Gutmann, a self-described semi-trained photographer, realized Johns\u2019 studio would make an ideal location for photographers, videographers and filmmakers. Magazines have done fashion shoots here, and the musician Surf Mesa filmed a music video<\/a> on the property.
The emotional and financial challenges of living in the home have been difficult, said Gutmann, who stays busy with upkeep the old house demands.
\u201cA period that could’ve been very, very hard, and was hard, was really redeemed by having this house to work on, because I like to do carpentry and stuff like that,\u201d Gutmann said, standing outside by a ladder she\u2019d been using while painting one of the barn board walls.
\u201cAnd then also very redeeming for me was this little piece of land with the stream and the different levels and the old trees,\u201d she added.
Deer, hawks, egrets, wild turkeys and the occasional fox and coyote wander freely through the bushes and towering trees. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a little animal sanctuary, so you\u2019ll get deer wandering right up to the windows and peering in,\u201d she said.
Robert Brum is a freelance journalist who writes about the Hudson Valley. Contact him at metro@lohud.com. Read his work at<\/em>robertbrum.com<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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