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Welcome to Crane Hall Studio!

Artist Judith Funkhouser
Having wandered for some distance among the overhanging rocks I came to the mouth of a huge cavern before which for a time I remained stupefied...my back bent to an arch, my left hand clutching my knew, while with the right I shaded my eyes and I bent first one way and then another in order to see whether I could make out anything inside, though this was almost impossible because of the intense darkness within. And after remaining there for a time, suddenly there were awakened in me two emotions, fear and desire; fear of the dark, threatening cavern and desire to see whether there might be any marvelous thing in it. - Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1527)
Throughout the ages have given significant names to their studios, such as:
Eastern Slope
The famous Chinese writer, poet, artist, calligrapher, pharmacologist, and statesman Su Shi (1037 - 1001) called his retreat Dongpo ('Eastern Slope'), from which he took his literary pseudonym, Su Dongpo
Mountain of the Dragon’s Brightness
Li Lung-mien (1040-1106) was one of the leading Chinese painters of the Sung dynasty, and a master of ink drawing in the Northern Sung wen-jen hua, the literati school of painting. His ink technique depended on sharply etched, fluent lines, which he used with grace and precision to define a subject. He lived a life of pious insight at his villa Mountain of the Dragon’s Brightness.
A studio is also a spiritual place. Here the artist meets with kindred spirits - past and present. For Funkhouser such places have been Concord, Massachusetts and Kennebunkport, Maine. For a time she painted in a place that had been turned into a studio by Naum Gabo, Russian-born American Constructivist Sculptor)1890-1977). Gabo was a friend of Wassily Kandinsky, painter and author of Concerning the Spiritual in Art, which asserted the principles of abstract art. In Woodbury his neighbors were Kay Sage and Ives Tanguy, Alexander Calder, Hans Richter, and Andre Breton, artists she felt a special kinship with.
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