Velino Shije Herrera (October 22, 1902 – January 1973), also known as Ma Pe Wi , was a Zia Pueblo Indian painter.
73-537: The Montclair Art Museum (MAM) is located in Montclair in Essex County, New Jersey and holds a collection of over 12,000 objects showcasing American and Native North American art . Through its public programs, art classes, and exhibitions, MAM strives to create experiences that inspire, challenge, and foster community to shape our shared future. Montclair Art Museum has been privately funded since it opened in 1914 as
146-466: A non-partisan basis in elections held as part of the May municipal elections. The mayor is elected directly by the voters. The Township Council includes six members, of which two council seats are elected from the township at-large and one council seat is elected from each of four wards . A deputy mayor is selected by the six council members from their members, and this position is largely ceremonial. Though
219-545: A "more rough-hewn and turbulent form". Walter and Emilie Greenough worked as stained-glass designers in the studio of John LaFarge , who lived in Montclair for a time as well. Sculptors included Jonathan Scott Hartley , Inness's son-in-law, and William Couper . The "Inness Colony" provided the impetus for the establishment of the Montclair Art Museum. The town created a Village Improvement Society in 1878, superseded by
292-462: A 20th-century American artist's fascination with and use of motifs from Native American art to critique their clichéd use by earlier artists. It included a Lichtenstein parody of Bierstadt, a variation on the Indian head nickel, and attempts to incorporate Indian symbolism into cubist and surrealist imagery. MAM also features exhibitions that highlight its region. It participates with other institutions and
365-482: A Municipal Art Commission in 1908, to beautify Montclair and preserve the charm of a country town. The Commission's head was William T. Evans , an Irish immigrant dry-goods magnate who had acquired the Inness estate in 1900. Between the early 1880s and 1913, Evans amassed a collection of more than 800 American paintings, by far the largest collection of American art before World War I. In 1907, he donated several dozen works to
438-405: A collection of Native American art amassed by her mother, Annie Valentine Rand. The Rand Collection's several hundred objects included baskets, clothing, jewelry, and household items. The museum's holdings have expanded by means of acquisitions and donations. In 1922, the museum invited Montclair residents to vote for their favorite among 25 works for acquisition. The museum's art committee overrode
511-579: A dedicated structure to house the collections, museum trustee Michel Le Brun hired Albert R. Ross to design a neoclassical building. Ross had worked on several Carnegie libraries and the Pueblo County Courthouse (1908–12) in Colorado. When the museum opened on January 15, 1914, it was the first museum in New Jersey that granted access to the public and the first dedicated solely to art. On
584-502: A museum. She had arrived in Montclair from Massachusetts as a teenager in 1873. Her initial donation was the first of many that totaled more than $ 250,000 over the next thirty years, plus $ 200,000 in her will and more from her estate. She was heir to much of the Rand family fortune, amassed by her father Jasper Rand (1837–1909) and bachelor uncle Addison C. Rand (1841–1900), who together had founded Rand Drill Company in 1871. Needing
657-500: A new wing that doubled the museum's square footage. To mark its 75th anniversary, MAM published Three Hundred Years of American Painting: The Montclair Art Museum Collection . It provided detailed entries for 538 paintings, detailed discussion of 32 of them, and a set of thematic essays. In 1999, MAM collaborated on American Tonalism: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Montclair Art Museum . In January 2009,
730-564: A news release, MAM called the show "the largest, most ambitious exhibition in the 95-year history of the museum." After appearing in Montclair, the exhibition traveled to the Baltimore and to the Phoenix Art Museum . As its centennial year approached, MAM undertook a fundraising campaign to double its endowment to $ 20 million. It also mounted an exhibition of contemporary sculpture based on the gifts of New Jersey resident Patricia A. Bell over
803-685: A pond that is fed by Yantacaw Brook and that in turn feeds into the Third River on its way towards the Passaic River . The township has 18 public tennis courts, four skating rinks (two of which are indoor), and three public swimming pools: the Mountainside pool, the Nishuane pool, and the Essex pool. In 2007, township residents advocated for the construction of a public skatepark. Community members revitalized
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#1732851739049876-561: A procedure abandoned when artists objected to having to characterize themselves in such a fashion. The building has since expanded along with the collection. The museum grew with additional gifts from Lang that allowed the front portico and mezzanine to be completed in 1924 and a new East Wing added in 1931 to house the Rand Collection. In the 1950s the high-ceilinged North Gallery was divided horizontally. The most recent renovation by architectural firm Beyer Blinder Belle in 2000-2001 added
949-482: A referendum held on February 21, 1894, Montclair was reincorporated as a town , effective February 24, 1894. It derives its name from the French mont clair , meaning "clear mountain" or "bright mountain." In 1980, after multiple protests filed by Montclair officials regarding inequities built into the federal revenue-sharing system, Montclair passed a referendum changing its name to the "Township of Montclair," becoming
1022-427: A ribbon-cutting ceremony to officially recognize this space as a temporary skatepark. The township's playground insurance covers skateboarding, allowing it to allocate funds to the park. The township has paid for signage using its playground fund. All skating equipment (ramps, rails, etc.) at Rand Park has been provided by community members with no financial support from the township. Montclair has one local newspaper,
1095-572: A seminal event in the development of the Southwest Movement of Native American painting. The work of DeHuff's students were displayed at the Museum of New Mexico in 1919 and museum director Edgar Lee Hewett hired Herrera and other artists for various jobs at the museum and for the School of American Research . Herrera said, "Dr. Hewett selected a few he thought had talent and started us to painting. I
1168-487: A separate ZIP code, 07043. Because the ZIP codes do not exactly match municipal boundaries, a few homes near the borders with neighboring towns fall into the ZIP codes for those communities. A few homes in some adjoining municipalities use one of the two ZIP codes assigned to Montclair, as does HackensackUMC Mountainside (07042, formerly known as Mountainside Hospital), whose campus straddles the border with Glen Ridge. Small areas in
1241-404: A wide public, from toddlers to senior citizens. Collaborations with numerous cultural and community partners bring artists, performers, and scholars to the museum on a regular basis. MAM's Yard School of Art is a regional art school offering an array of classes for children, youth, adults, seniors, and professional artists. In the summer of 2014, MAM launched a new community outreach program called
1314-492: Is 90; the area has an average of 202 sunny days. Montclair is one or two degrees warmer than the neighboring municipalities of Verona and Cedar Grove because of the mountain between them, which sometimes blocks winds and clouds, including warmer air from the ocean to the east. The township has long celebrated its diversity, a feature that has attracted many to the community. The African American population has been stable at around 30% for decades, although it fell from 32% in
1387-526: Is a township in Essex County in the U.S. state of New Jersey . Situated on the cliffs of the Watchung Mountains , Montclair is a commercial and cultural hub of North Jersey and a diverse bedroom community of New York City within the New York metropolitan area . The township is the home of Montclair State University , the state's second-largest university. As of the 2020 United States census ,
1460-679: Is also located there. Since July 1, 1988, Montclair has been governed under the Council-Manager Plan 13 form of municipal government under the Faulkner Act , whose originator, Bayard H. Faulkner , was a former mayor of Montclair. The township is one of 42 municipalities (of the 564) statewide that use this form of government. The governing body is comprised of the Mayor and the Township Council, who are elected to concurrent four-year terms on
1533-790: Is represented in the United States Senate by Democrats Cory Booker ( Newark , term ends 2027) and George Helmy ( Mountain Lakes , term ends 2024). Ma-Pe-Wi Born in Zia Pueblo, New Mexico , Herrera attended the Santa Fe Indian School . The Bureau of Indian Affairs prohibited arts training, but the wife of the superintendent of the school, Elizabeth Willis DeHuff , invited Herrera and his fellow students Fred Kabotie , Otis Polelonema , and Awa Tsireh to paint in her living room. DeHuff's painting groups have been described as
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#17328517390491606-451: Is the border between those two counties. Montclair has a temperate climate, with warm-to-hot, humid summers and cool-to-cold winters, as is characteristic of the Köppen climate classification humid continental climate. January tends to be the coldest month, with average high temperatures in the upper 30s Fahrenheit and lows averaging 21. July, the warmest month, features high temperatures in
1679-592: The 2000 census to 27% in 2010. Montclair has attracted many New Yorkers. Many residents work for major media organizations in New York City, including The New York Times and Newsweek . A March 11, 2007, posting in the blog Gawker.com listed some of those who work in the media and live in Montclair. Many residents are commuters to New York City and the Metro Area. The 2010 United States census counted 37,669 people, 15,089 households, and 9,446 families in
1752-581: The Lincoln Tunnel under the Hudson River , the Whole Theatre productions were readily available to New York City and New Jersey audiences. In the two decades in which Whole Theatre flourished, they presented a long list of performances in a wide variety of genres. Productions included The Rose Tattoo , Mother Courage , Rabelais: a Dramatic Game (1985), and America at Full Moon (1986). They enjoyed
1825-664: The Main Interior Building of the US Department of the Interior in Washington, DC . Herrera's work included detailed, representational depictions of Pueblo life, including ceremonial kachina dances , and abstract works based on Pueblo symbolism. The work of Herrera and other Native American artists was not always viewed positively in their native communities, especially when it came to depictions of restricted ceremonies. Herrera
1898-653: The Montclair Local . In addition, there is a radio station at 90.3 FM on the campus of Montclair State University , WMSC . The township has a municipal public service television channel, Channel 34, where township council and school board meetings are broadcast. Montclair High School has its own paper the Mountaineer , and Montclair State University has its own student-run paper, the Montclarion . WNJN , one of four stations of state-wide PBS member station NJTV ,
1971-614: The New Jersey State Council on the Arts in New Jersey Arts Annual: Fine Arts, which develops juried exhibitions of works by local artists. For example, as part of that program, in 2012 MAM presented 13 works that explored technology and "sampling, appropriating and remaking older artworks" in an exhibit called "New Media: New Forms". In 2014, "Robert Smithson's New Jersey" explored how the artist's early exploration of
2044-561: The New York Times described Montclair as "the home of more prominent artists and wealthy art connoisseurs, probably, than any other place in New-Jersey." Others had preceded him as early as the 1860s, when illustrators Harry Fenn and Charles Parsons commuted by rail to their New York City studios, just as Inness and others did in the decades that followed. They were year-round resident-commuters and varied in their stylistic approaches, unlike
2117-594: The Presby Memorial Iris Gardens , a 6.5-acre (2.6 ha) living museum donated by the family of Frank Presby that is maintained by volunteers and dedicated to the iris . Covering nearly 20 acres (8.1 ha) of wetlands and uplands along the Third River , the Alonzo F. Bonsal Wildlife Preserve offers hiking trails and other passive recreation. Yantacaw Brook Park , covering 11.5 acres (4.7 ha), surrounds
2190-469: The Presby Memorial Iris Gardens , and many school-owned sports fields, viz., Montclair State University 's Sprague Field . In total Montclair has 153.9 acres (0.623 km ) of township park land spread over 18 parks and 123.8 acres (0.501 km ) of county park land consisting of five parks. Municipal parks include Mountainside Park, the township's largest at 33.2 acres (13.4 ha), which offers extensive tennis and recreation facilities, and includes
2263-642: The Second River , and the others flow into the Third River . Montclair lies just north of the northernmost extent of the Rahway River watershed. Montclair borders the municipalities of Bloomfield , Cedar Grove , Glen Ridge , Orange , Verona , and West Orange in Essex County; and Clifton and Little Falls in Passaic County . The southern border of Montclair is a straight line between Eagle Rock, on
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2336-504: The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. (named "National Gallery of Art" at that time), and grew that number to 160 by the time of his death in 1918. In 1909, Evans offered to donate 26 oil paintings to the town of Montclair on condition that it provide a fireproof gallery space to house and display them. The proposal was defeated in a referendum in 1910. In response to that rejection, on December 8, 1910,
2409-505: The 1948 biographical novel Cheaper by the Dozen , the principal characters Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr. and Lillian Moller Gilbreth live in Montclair, as the authors did in real life. Some scenes of the film "Seven Minutes in Heaven" (1986) were filmed in and around Montclair High School . The 1989 film Bloodhounds of Broadway , which starred Madonna , Matt Dillon , and Jennifer Grey ,
2482-533: The Art Truck, using an ice cream truck refurbished with funds from a grant from the Partners for Health Foundation. A pilot program in its first year, the Art Truck brought art instructors and supplies to conduct open studio art classes at sites in several New Jersey counties, including town pools, senior centers and assisted living facilities, local festivals, and farmers markets. Montclair, New Jersey Montclair
2555-659: The Claridge Cinema on Bloomfield Avenue which shows different types of movies from documentaries to small-scale indie films. The township hosted its first annual film festival in 2012 to provide a platform for filmmakers from New Jersey, the US, and the world. Live theaters include The Montclair Operetta Company, the Wellmont Theater , Montclair State University 's Kasser Theater, Montclair State University's theater in Life Hall, and
2628-705: The Fourth Ward. Montclair is split between the 10th and 11th Congressional Districts and is part of New Jersey's 27th state legislative district. Prior to the 2010 Census, Montclair had been part of the 8th Congressional District and the 10th Congressional District, a change made by the New Jersey Redistricting Commission that took effect in January 2013, based on the results of the November 2012 general elections. The split that took effect in 2013 drew
2701-821: The Mayor has no executive powers, the mayor presides over council meetings and has both a voice and vote in its proceedings. The Mayor appoints members to many local governing groups, most notably the board of education. As of 2023 , the Mayor of Montclair is Sean M. Spiller. Members of the Montclair Township Council are Deputy Mayor William L. Hurlock (First Ward), Lori Price Abrams (Third Ward), David Cummings (Fourth Ward), Robert J. Russo (at-large), Robin Schlager (Second Ward) and Peter Yacobellis (at-large), all of whom serve terms of office scheduled to end on June 30, 2024. In elections held on May 12, 2020, Sean M. Spiller
2774-508: The Montclair Art Museum's collection". Some of Inness's most important landscapes were inspired by the Montclair country side with works such as Early Autumn, Montclair, 1888 . The intimate George Inness Gallery displays selected works from the museum's 21 Inness paintings, two of his watercolors, and an etching by the artist. It also features the work of sculptor William Couper , who lived in Montclair for fifteen years while sculpting and for another thirty in retirement. Artists represented in
2847-548: The Municipal Art Commission transformed itself into the Montclair Art Association and proposed to create and manage an art gallery without government support. Raising funds still proved difficult until another Montclair resident, Florence Rand Lang (1861–1943), agreed to bear most of the expense and her gift of $ 50,000, much of it for the purchase of the site, transformed the project from a gallery into
2920-650: The Studio Playhouse. On Bloomfield Avenue, there is a public stage used for concerts and other events. Dotted around Montclair there are also many art galleries, though most are centered in the Bloomfield Avenue Downtown Area. Concerts are held at the Wellmont Theater and at several churches and auditoriums sponsored by Outpost in the Burbs, a community-based organization. In 2017, The Montclair Orchestra
2993-505: The actors Louis Zorich and his wife, the later Oscar-winning actress, Olympia Dukakis , founded a theatre group that included Remi Barclay , Jason Bosseau, Margery Fierst, Gerald Fierst, and many others. Some of the acting artistic and administrative participants were permanent, and semi-permanent. Performances were peppered with visits and occasional celebrity artists. Naming themselves Whole Theatre, they based themselves in Montclair. Located 12 miles (19 km) from Midtown Manhattan via
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3066-470: The circular lawn in front of the museum's entrance, the founders placed a bronze sculpture by Hermon Atkins MacNeil , The Sun Vow , another gift from Evans. It remains on view. At its opening the museum had two collections gifted by its principal organizer, Evans, and its principal funder, Lang. Evans' donation of American art included 2 sculptures and 54 paintings, among them works by George Inness , Ralph Albert Blakelock , and Childe Hassam . Lang donated
3139-1221: The collection include Tony Abeyta , Josef Albers , Milton Avery , Will Barnet , Romare Bearden , Thomas Hart Benton , Carl Borg , Margaret Bourke-White , Alexander Calder , Ching Ho Cheng , Thomas Cole , Willie Cole , Stuart Davis , Willem de Kooning , Richard Diebenkorn , Elsie Driggs , Asher B. Durand , Thomas Eakins , Harry Fonseca , Lee Friedlander , Jeffrey Gibson , Arshile Gorky , Marsden Hartley , Elizabeth Hickox , Robert Henri , Winslow Homer , Edward Hopper , George Inness , Ben Jones , Donald Judd , Fred Kabotie , Michael Lenson , Helen Levitt , Roy Lichtenstein , Robert Longo , Truman Lowe , Whitfield Lovell , Man Ray , Thomas Manley , Knox Martin , Ma-Pe-Wi , Robert Motherwell , Dan Namingha , Alice Neel , Louise Nevelson , Tom Nussbaum , Georgia O'Keeffe , Sarah Miriam Peale , Rembrandt Peale , Charles Willson Peale , Philip Pearlstein , Maurice Prendergast , Oscar Bluemner , Ad Reinhardt , Mark Rothko , Morgan Russell , John Singer Sargent , George Segal , Ben Shahn , Lorna Simpson , Jaune Quick-To-See Smith , Joseph Stella , Kay WalkingStick , Andy Warhol , Max Weber , and James Abbott McNeill Whistler . The arrival of
3212-502: The effort in 2010 and lobbied the Parks and Recreation Committee for support. The township council passed a resolution expressing approval of the project but allocated no funds for it. In the spring of 2020, an impromptu skatepark was created by community members on two of the unused tennis courts at Rand Park on North Fullerton Avenue during the COVID-19 pandemic. In July 2020, the township held
3285-578: The few museums in the United States devoted to American art and Native American art forms. The collection consists of more than 12,000 works. The American collection comprises paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, and sculpture dating from the 18th century to the present. The museum's holdings of historical, modern, and contemporary Indigenous art from North America include textiles, pottery, beadwork, woodcarving, jewelry, painting, sculpture, and more. The historical Native art collection represents one of
3358-595: The first museum in New Jersey that granted access to the public and the first dedicated solely to art. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 14, 1986, for its significance in art and architecture. It was listed in the Montclair Artists Colony section of the Historic Resources of Montclair Multiple Property Submission (MPS). The Montclair Art Museum is one of
3431-462: The five municipalities that had authorized the sale of medical cannabis . According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the township had a total area of 6.25 square miles (16.17 km ), including 6.24 square miles (16.16 km ) of land and 0.01 square miles (0.02 km ) of water (0.11%). Montclair is on the east side of the First Mountain of the Watchung Mountains . Some higher locations in
3504-565: The impressionists that abandoned city life to gather for the summer in the " art colonies " at the end of the 19th century in Cos Cob and Old Lyme , Connecticut, and New Hope, Pennsylvania . Charles Eaton painted in a style much like that of Inness and Frederick Judd Waugh devoted himself to seascapes, while painter Henry Rankin Poore preferred a "workaday realism " in subject and texture of brushwork and his colleague Frederick Ballard Williams adopted
3577-597: The landscape and excavations near Paterson and Rutherford , New Jersey, inform Robert Smithson 's later collages and land art projects. One critic wrote in The New Yorker : "This might seem like just more hopeful boosterism by a Garden State that exists in the shadow of a Big Apple, except that it’s true." In 2009, the museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art organized the exhibition "Cézanne and American Modernism," with 131 items, including 18 works by Cézanne . In
3650-426: The largest collection of materials in northern New Jersey. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, the Montclair city council cut library funding to the minimum levels required by New Jersey law. The library's director resigned following a forensic audit, in which no irregularities were found. Montclair is home to many parks and nature reserves. Parks in Montclair are both county and municipal. Additional open space includes
3723-408: The last 20 years to underscore its commitment to the contemporary arts scene. To mark its centenary in 2014, on the anniversary date, it lit a new installation by Spencer Finch , Yellow , that filled the windows on the first level of the museum's facade with a soft glow that suggests someone is home, countering in some measure the formality of the architecture. The museum's educational programs serve
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#17328517390493796-430: The major repositories of the collecting activities of Pasadena-based dealer Grace Nicholson . The museum has the only gallery in the world dedicated solely to the work of the 19th-century American painter George Inness , who lived in Montclair from 1885 to 1894 and painted in the area. He is often acknowledged as the father of American landscape painting. MAM's Inness paintings are, according to one critic, "the crown of
3869-507: The mid-80s and lows in the 70s, with an average high of 86 degrees. From April to June and from September to early November, Montclair experiences temperatures from the lower 60s to the lower 70s. Montclair gets approximately 50 inches (1,300 mm) of rain per year, above the United States average of 39 inches (990 mm). Snowfall is common from December to early March and totals about 30 inches (76 cm) annually. The number of days each year in Montclair with any measurable precipitation
3942-660: The museum announced it had transferred most of its LeBrun Library to the Harry A. Sprague Library at Montclair State University , a public institution that accepts library cards from public libraries in Essex and Passaic counties. MAM often mounts exhibitions that bridge its two collections. For example, a 2001-2 exhibit explored Albert Bierstadt 's depiction of encounters between European settlers and Native Americans, using its collection of Native American art to create conversations with two monumental Bierstadt oils. In 2005, it presented "Roy Lichtenstein: American Indian Encounters" to explore
4015-432: The population were under the age of 18, 6.2% from 18 to 24, 26.7% from 25 to 44, 30.3% from 45 to 64, and 11.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39.9 years. For every 100 females, the population had 87.2 males. For every 100 females ages 18 and older there were 82.2 males. The Census Bureau's 2006–2010 American Community Survey showed that (in 2010 inflation-adjusted dollars) median household income
4088-419: The population. Of the 15,089 households, 33.9% had children under the age of 18; 46.1% were married couples living together; 13.2% had a female householder with no husband present and 37.4% were non-families. Of all households, 30.9% were made up of individuals and 8.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.47 and the average family size was 3.15. 25.5% of
4161-417: The railroad in Montclair in the 1830s transformed a rural agricultural village into a prosperous suburban community, with a rail link to New York that was too expensive for the working class that traveled by street cars and trolleys. Montclair's arts community centered on landscape painter George Inness , who visited for several seasons beginning in 1878 and made it his home from 1885 until he died in 1894, when
4234-484: The ridge of the First Watchung Mountain, and the point where Orange Road begins at the foot of Ridgewood Avenue. The eastern border is roughly a straight line between that point and a point just southwest of where Broad Street crosses the Third River. The western border runs roughly along the ridge of the First Watchung Mountain between Eagle Rock and the Essex County / Passaic County border. The northern border
4307-490: The southeast of the township fall into the Glen Ridge ZIP code 07028. Several streams flow eastward through Montclair: Toney's Brook in the center, Nishuane Brook in the southeast, Wigwam Brook in the southwest, Pearl Brook in the northwest, and Yantacaw Brook in the northeast—all in the Passaic River watershed. Yantacaw and Toney's brooks are dammed in parks to create ponds. Wigwam, Nishuane, and Toney's brooks flow into
4380-450: The southern section of the township (26,730 residents) into the 10th District, while the northern portion (11,299 residents) moved to the 11th District. For the 118th United States Congress , New Jersey's 10th congressional district is represented by LaMonica McIver ( D , Newark ). For the 118th United States Congress , New Jersey's 11th congressional district is represented by Mikie Sherrill ( D , Montclair ). New Jersey
4453-624: The support of the local community and the theatre community of New York and New Jersey generally. For example, in 1975–1976 the company acknowledged over 120 substantial donors in their program as well as funding from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund . In 1989, Olympia Dukakis was named as the company's Artistic Director. Her two co-directors were Remi Barclay and Gerald Fierst, who were jointly responsible for Education and Outreach. In 2018 Brooke Lea Foster of The New York Times stated that it
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#17328517390494526-564: The third of more than a dozen Essex County municipalities to reclassify themselves as townships to take advantage of federal revenue sharing policies that allocated townships a greater share of government aid to municipalities on a per capita basis. Before cannabis was legalized for sale for both medical and recreational use in 2022, the state's first marijuana dispensary opened in Montclair in December 2012, joining Bellmawr , Cranbury , Egg Harbor Township , and Woodbridge Township as one of
4599-476: The township provide excellent views of the surrounding area and of the New York City skyline about 12 miles (19 km) away. Named localities in the township include Church Street, Frog Hollow, South End, Upper Montclair , and Watchung Plaza. Montclair is split between two ZIP Codes . The central and southern parts of the township are designated 07042. Upper Montclair lies north of Watchung Avenue and has
4672-451: The township's population was 40,921, an increase of 3,252 (+8.6%) from the 2010 census count of 37,669, which in turn reflected a decline of 1,308 (−3.4%) from the 38,977 counted in the 2000 census . As of 2010, it was the 60th-most-populous municipality in New Jersey . Montclair was initially formed as a township on April 15, 1868, from portions of Bloomfield Township , so that a second railroad could be built to Montclair. After
4745-479: The township. The population density was 5,971.2 per square mile (2,305.5/km ). There were 15,911 housing units at an average density of 2,522.2 per square mile (973.8/km ). The racial makeup was 62.16% (23,416) White , 27.16% (10,230) Black or African American , 0.16% (59) Native American , 3.81% (1,434) Asian , 0.02% (9) Pacific Islander , 2.19% (826) from other races , and 4.50% (1,695) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 7.46% (2,810) of
4818-548: The winning work by the impressionist Daniel Garber and instead purchased a work by the comparatively avant-garde Arthur Bowen Davies , Meeting in the Forest (1900), a depiction of nudes in a landscape in the Symbolist style. In the 1930s the museum was less open to modernists, and in the 1940s it tried to counter that reputation by having works for its annual exhibit of local artists' work selected by two juries, traditional and modern,
4891-469: Was $ 95,696 (with a margin of error of +/− $ 5,396) and the median family income was $ 126,983 (+/− $ 8,950). Males had a median income of $ 83,589 (+/− $ 5,955) versus $ 66,063 (+/− $ 3,616) for females. The per capita income for the township was $ 53,572 (+/− $ 2,671). About 4.6% of families and 2.7% of the population were below the poverty line , including 7.0% of those under age 18 and 4.6% of those age 65 or over. Montclair has six distinct commercial zones: In
4964-467: Was elected as mayor, defeating Renée Baskerville. Peter Yacobellis and incumbent Robert Russo won the two at-large seats, defeating the three other candidates—James Cotter, Carmel Loughman, and Roger Terry. Incumbent Robin Schlager won the Second Ward, defeating Christina M. Thomas; Lori Price Abrams defeated Marguerite Joralemon in the Third Ward; incumbent Bill Hurlock won the First Ward seat, defeating John Hearn; and David Cummings, who ran unopposed, won in
5037-487: Was eventually ostracized by Pueblo elders. Herrera's illustrative work included educational materials for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. He illustrated a number of books for author Ruth Underhill . In My Mother's House , a book that he illustrated for Bureau of Indian Affairs author Ann Nolan Clark , was named a Caldecott Honor book in 1942. In 1954, he was awarded the French Ordre des Palmes Académiques . He largely abandoned painting after being seriously injured in
5110-402: Was formed as a semi-professional orchestra, with professional musicians and students from top colleges. Montclair was the setting for some of the stories in the HBO television series The Sopranos , and many Montclair streets, locations, and businesses were featured in the show, such as Bloomfield Avenue. Montclair Public Library is one of the oldest public libraries in New Jersey, with
5183-412: Was one of several "least suburban of suburbs, each one celebrated by buyers there for its culture and hip factor, as much as the housing stock and sophisticated post-city life." Montclair hosts many art institutions and theaters, and despite its relatively small size, has many art venues. It has its own art museum, the Montclair Art Museum , and several small galleries. Montclair also hosts one cinema,
5256-620: Was one. I have been painting ever since." Following the exhibition at the Museum of New Mexico , press coverage promoted their work and the next year they were included in the annual exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists in New York. Herrera's work was widely exhibited in the US and Europe and included in the Exposition of Tribal Indian Arts traveling show (1931–33). He and five other artists were commissioned to paint 2200 feet of murals for
5329-478: Was partially filmed in Montclair. Herman Hupfeld , composer of the song " As Time Goes By ", was born, lived, and was buried in Montclair. The song was voted No. 2 on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs special, commemorating the best songs in film. The indie rock band Pinegrove is from Montclair. In 2023, it released Montclair: Live at the Wellmont Theater , a film recording a 2021 performance in Montclair. In 1971,
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