Len Jenshel Photograph - Candace Wheeler Library, Onteora Park, New York - 1986

Title: Candace Wheeler Library, Onteora Park, New York
Photographer: Len Jenshel
1986
Overall size matted is approximately 20 x 26 inches

This fine art photograph by Len Jenshel captures the historic library in Onteora park, N Y

Candace Wheeler and her brother Francis Thurber founded Onteora Club in 1887. Wheeler, an important figure in the American Arts and Crafts movement and a partner of Louis C. Tiffany in the decorating firm of Associated Artists, invited many prominent artists, writers and philosophers to come visit for weeks at a time to take part in what was considered a novel “experiment in plain living with high thinking.”

Local lore attributes the name Onteora, "Hills of the Sky," to indigenous people who once inhabited the area. To this day it embraces the same vistas that first attracted its founder “… a view of mountain-tops with blue wavering mists lying in the valleys, and sun-struck patches of forest above them.”

Onteora culture has continued to flourish, growing to include an expanding art collection, live theater productions, an active library and historic archive with annual programs, as well as vast sporting and social events and opportunities.


Len Jenshel | American, 1949 -
Len Jenshel is one of the pioneers of "The New Color," photographing landscape and culture since 1974. His books include Travels in the American West (Smithsonian, 1992), Charmed Places (Abrams, 1988), and Charleston and the Low Country (Spacemaker Press, 1997). His photographs have been exhibited internationally in one-person shows at the Yokohama Museum in Tokyo, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the International Center of Photography in New York City, to name a few. His work is represented in over one hundred collections worldwide. He has received numerous grants including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Arts, two from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Graham Foundation, and the Design Trust for Public Space.

In addition to his personal projects, he also work on assignments for major domestic and international magazines including National Geographic, Conde Nast Traveler, House & Garden, The New Yorker, National Geographic Traveler, New York Times' Sophisticated Traveler, Washington Post Magazine, Fortune, Men's Journal, Audubon, Departures, Civilization, Travel & Leisure, GEO, Life, T&L Golf, Organic Style, Budget Travel, Nest, Outside, Town & Country, and many others.

Len and his wife, Diane Cook, currently live and work in New York City.