The collection exists within a labyrinth of rooms,
possessing traffic patterns unfamiliar today. A small
entranceway, with steep narrow stairway, is consumed
at its center by a grandfather clock and to its right, a
modernist painting by Selena Trieff. Upstairs, there is
a painting of a snake, Leviathan. From a series called
Answer to Job, inspired by the movie Alien, Ives Gammell
completed it after several
years, in 1980, just before
his death. It is modern,
powerful.
The sitting room to the
right and dining room to
the left each serve also as
passageways to the back
of the house, the former,
through what is now a
family room and a hall to
the kitchen, and the latter
through the dining room
and the same hall to the
kitchen. Each area has
adjacent small halls, a second staircase, a sunroom,
study or a bedroom suite. Passage doors define each
space, the open plan simply does not exist: walls do.
These walls contain paintings by Herman Dudley
Murphy, William Paxton, Twachman and Robert Hunter
in the violet-colored dining room. Over the purple sofa
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