Upper Hudson

For our last days in New York we went with family to an Airbnb house in Garrison, a village in the Upper Hudson accessible by an hour or so train ride on the Metro NorthWest Line, and were joined by family friends also with 2 children. For enfants the pool was the main attraction;

for adults  it was relaxation in gentle countryside

Our final day included a visit to the Neue Galerie, to see the Austrian Secessionist collection of  artifacts and the Klimt collection (including the famous Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer)

 
 and a special short time exhibition of works by Richard Gerstl (1883-1908), an expressionist artist tragically allied with Schonberg musical family, .
"Gerstl was an extremely original artist whose psychologically intense figure paintings and landscapes constitute a radically unorthodox oeuvre that defied the reigning concepts of style and beauty during his time. The longstanding secrecy surrounding Gerstl’s dramatic and untimely suicide at the age of 25, and the scandalous love affair that preceded his death, only further magnify the legend that has grown around this lesser known, but influential member of Vienna’s artistic avant-garde at the turn of the twentieth century."

This post concludes our account of our September Experiences.