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42-467: The museum also houses a collection of fine art, including works by major American artists who lived or worked in the New Bedford area, such as Albert Bierstadt , William Bradford , and Albert Pinkham Ryder , as well as a collection of locally produced decorative art, glassware, and furniture associated with the rise of New Bedford as a whaling port in the 19th century. The museum's Bourne Building houses

84-663: A land surveyor for the U.S. government, to see those western American landscapes for his work. He returned to a studio he had taken at the Tenth Street Studio Building in New York with sketches for numerous paintings he then finished. In 1860, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Design ; he received medals in Austria , Bavaria , Belgium , and Germany. In 1863, Bierstadt traveled west again, this time in

126-706: A national park that includes several New Bedford historical sites, including the Seamen's Bethel , which is located across the street from the Whaling Museum. The museum features a twenty-minute short film titled The City that Lit the World courtesy of the National Park Service. 1996 was also the year of the first annual Moby-Dick Marathon Reading. In 1998, the New Bedford Whaling Museum collaborated with

168-535: A company own by his uncle Herbert Mosley Plimpton (1859-1948). He worked his way up from a minor position to general manager and treasurer in 1910. In this period he had grown an interest in the scientific management techniques of Frederick Winslow Taylor , which he had applied in the Plimpton Press plant. This became one of the earliest successful applications of the Taylor system. In 1903, Henry P. Kendall took over

210-680: A cooper. His older brothers were prominent stereo view photographers Edward Bierstadt and Charles Bierstadt . Albert was just a year old when his family immigrated to New Bedford, Massachusetts , in 1831. He made clever crayon sketches in his youth and developed a taste for art. In 1851, Bierstadt began to paint in oils. He returned to Germany in 1853 and studied painting for several years in Düsseldorf with members of its informal school of painting. After returning to New Bedford in 1857, he taught drawing and painting briefly before devoting himself full-time to painting. In 1858, Bierstadt exhibited

252-469: A half-scale model built in 1916 of the ship Lagoda owned by Jonathan Bourne Jr . The Lagoda is 89 feet (27 m) in length and has a mainmast 50 feet (15 m) in height, making it the world's largest model whaling ship. It is fully rigged and showcases some of the supplies needed for an extended whaling voyage. The Bourne Building also houses a permanent installation that explores the Azorean impact on

294-648: A large painting of a Swiss landscape at the National Academy of Design , which gained him positive critical reception and honorary membership in the Academy. Bierstadt began painting scenes in New England and upstate New York , including in the Hudson River Valley . He was part of a group of artists known as the Hudson River School . In 1859, Bierstadt traveled westward in the company of Frederick W. Lander ,

336-456: A substitute to serve in his place. By 1862, he had completed one Civil War painting Guerrilla Warfare, Civil War based on his brief experiences with soldiers stationed at Camp Cameron in 1861. That painting was based on a stereoscopic photograph taken by his brother Edward Bierstadt, who operated a photography studio at Langley's Tavern in Virginia. The painting received a positive review when it

378-477: A year, most of whom were from out of town. The museum further expanded with the bequest of the Wood Building by Annie Seabury Wood in 1935. In 1936, the museum acquired its first whale skeleton, a three-year-old humpback whale known as Quasimodo. In the words of curator William Tripp, "We are no longer a whaling museum without a whale, as some in the past have chosen to call us." In 1953, the whaling film, All

420-508: Is a 66-foot (20 m) juvenile male named KOBO . The sperm whale is a 48-foot (15 m) 30-year-old male. The right whales include a 49-foot (15 m) 15-year-old female named Reyna that was ten months pregnant and her fetus. This exhibit explores the region of Old Dartmouth from the 1602 landing of English explorer Bartholomew Gosnold to the dominance of New Bedford in the whaling industry. It explores themes related to religion, geography, and maritime commerce, which combined to influence

462-459: Is home to five fully articulated whale skeletons: a blue whale , a humpback whale , a sperm whale , and a pregnant mother and fetus North Atlantic right whale . All of the specimens came from animals that either died accidentally or by undetermined circumstances, and were not killed as a result of whaling. The first skeleton to be acquired was a 37-foot (11 m) three-year-old male humpback whale named Quasimodo, which died in 1932. The blue whale

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504-574: The Lagoda , a half-scale model of a whaling ship that was commissioned in 1916 and is the world's largest model whaling ship. On January 7, 1903, Ellis L. Howland, a news reporter for the Evening Standard , presented a paper urging the establishment of a historical society and a museum: I believe that the need of a historical society arose not recently but generations ago when the history of New Bedford and vicinity commenced. Today we are suffering from

546-656: The Azorean Maritime Heritage Society to build the Azorean Whaleman Gallery, an exhibition devoted to the contributions of Azorean sailors and whaleboat builders to US whaling history. In August 2000, the Jacobs Family Gallery was built thanks to the donation of Irwin and Joan Jacobs. The humpback whale skeleton Quasimodo was moved to the new Jacobs Family Gallery and suspended alongside a new juvenile blue whale skeleton, named KOBO (King of

588-584: The Hudson River . Their style was based on carefully detailed paintings with romantic , almost glowing lighting, sometimes called luminism . Bierstadt was an important interpreter of the western landscape, and he is also grouped with the Rocky Mountain School. Bierstadt was born in Solingen , Rhine Province , Prussia , on January 7, 1830. He was the son of Christina M. (Tillmans) and Henry Bierstadt,

630-761: The Westward Expansion to paint the scenes. He was not the first artist to record the sites, but he was the foremost painter of them for the remainder of the 19th century. Bierstadt was born in Prussia , but his family moved to the United States when he was one year old. He returned to study painting for several years in Düsseldorf . He became part of the second generation of the Hudson River School in New York , an informal group of like-minded painters who started painting along

672-417: The conservation movement and the establishment of Yellowstone National Park . His work has been placed in a favorable context, as stated in 1987: The temptation (to criticize him) should be steadfastly resisted. Bierstadt's theatrical art, fervent sociability, international outlook, and unquenchable personal energy reflected the epic expansion in every facet of Western civilization during the second half of

714-608: The Bank of Commerce Building on Water Street to the ODHS for the purpose of establishing a museum. One year later, the New Bedford Whaling Museum was opened. The New Bedford Whaling Museum grew considerably during the 1910s and 1920s. In 1914, the ODHS appointed Frank Wood as the curator and first full-time staff member. In 1915, Emily Bourne donated the Bourne Building in memory of her father, Jonathan Bourne Jr. She also contributed funds for

756-717: The Blue Ocean). In October 2001, negotiations began to merge the Kendall Whaling Museum , which was founded in 1955 by Henry P. Kendall and opened in 1956, with the New Bedford Whaling Museum. The merger was finalized in October 2001, and the Kendall Whaling Museum's artifacts were moved to the New Bedford Whaling Museum by November 2002. As a result, the museum added some 70,000 artifacts to its collections, effectively doubling its size. To accommodate all these artifacts,

798-472: The Brothers Were Valiant , premiered in New Bedford. The anti-whaling movement of the 1970s led Curator of Ethnology John R. Bockstoce to research and compile the most complete data on the bowhead whale to date, reestablishing the importance of the preservation of historical whaling documents. In 1996, the museum played a large role in establishing a New Bedford Whaling National Historic Park ,

840-535: The Kendall Company became a wholly owned subsidiary of Colgate-Palmolive . In April 1994, Tyco Healthcare purchased the Kendall Company. In 2007, Tyco Healthcare spun off as Covidien. Kendall was married to Evelyn Louise Way (1893–1979), and they had three children including Henry Way Kendall (1926-1999), who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1990, and business executive John Plimpton Kendall . Kendall

882-627: The Lewis Batting Company. Kendall acquired and founded many textile factories and other companies through his company, the Kendall Company, which emphasized product research and scientific processes. His company produced products such as Curity Diapers and Curad finger bandages (those brands are now owned by Covidien and Medline Industries ). He first turned around the Lewis Manufacturing Company in Walpole and then purchased

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924-471: The Research Library. In 2002, the museum acquired the skeleton of a sperm whale , and in 2008, it acquired the skeleton of a North Atlantic right whale which was pregnant at the time of its death. In 2012, the Whaling Museum was featured in an episode of Four Weddings on TLC as one of the brides had her wedding reception at the museum. The museum's Jonathan Bourne Building houses the Lagoda ,

966-648: The Sierra Nevada, California in his Rome studio, displaying it in Berlin and London before having it shipped to the U.S. His exhibition pieces both impressed European audiences and furthered the idea of the American West as a land of promise during a period when European emigration to the U.S. was increasing. Bierstadt's choice of grandiose subjects was matched by his entrepreneurial flair. His exhibitions of individual works were accompanied by promotion, ticket sales, and, in

1008-665: The absence of a historical society becomes in our minds almost a crime. On 22 July 1903, the 100 founding constituents of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society selected William W. Crapo , a local lawyer and congressman, as their president. At first, the museum rented rooms to display and store artifacts in the Masonic Lodge on the corner of Pleasant and Union Streets. By 1904, their membership had grown to almost 700, and collections had been expanded to include some 560 artifacts. In 1906, Henry Huttleston Rogers donated

1050-505: The colonial growth of southeastern Massachusetts and the ultimate success of the port of New Bedford, which surpassed Nantucket as the US's largest whaling center around 1827. Albert Bierstadt Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 – February 18, 1902) was a German American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West . He joined several journeys of

1092-458: The company of the author Fitz Hugh Ludlow , whose wife he later married. The pair spent seven weeks in the Yosemite Valley . Throughout the 1860s, Bierstadt used studies from this trip as the source for large-scale paintings for exhibition and he continued to visit the American West throughout his career. The immense canvases he produced after his trips with Lander and Ludlow established him as

1134-527: The construction of a half-sized model of her father's ship Lagoda , which was built inside the Bourne Building in 1916. Nationwide interest in whaling history was raised by the 1922 film Down to the Sea in Ships , which was filmed in New Bedford and featured many New Bedford locals dressed up in their grandparents' clothing as extras. By the 1930s, the New Bedford Whaling Museum was attracting four to ten thousand visitors

1176-454: The growth and development of Southern New England and of New Bedford in particular, which is home to a vibrant Azorean community . The exhibit contains many artifacts related to whaling in the Azores and the islanders' journey to a new life in the US via a "bridge of whale ships." The exhibit features a half-scale model of an Azorean whaleboat and a vigia , an Azorean whaling lookout. The museum

1218-455: The manufacturing village of Slatersville, Rhode Island . Kendall Company produced textiles for the government and Red Cross during World War I and expanded throughout the twentieth century acquiring manufacturing facilities in the United States and Mexico. Kendall eventually acquired and founded many textile factories and other companies through his company, the Kendall Company, which emphasized product research and scientific processes. In 1972

1260-464: The museum acquired a former bank building on Purchase Street three blocks west of the museum campus on Johnny Cake Hill. The Purchase Street Building housed the museum's Research Library for several years; in 2017 it moved to a new building on the main museum campus. In 2002, the New Bedford Whaling Museum partnered with the Melville Society , and it now houses their extensive Melville collection in

1302-404: The nineteenth century. On the other hand, his work has also been criticized as largely an imaginary depiction of nature, and even "soulless" in its execution. [REDACTED] Category Henry P. Kendall Henry Plimpton Kendall (January 15, 1878 – November 3, 1959) was a New England entrepreneur, industrialist, and philanthropist from Walpole, Massachusetts . He is considered one of

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1344-401: The omission and if it is in the least deplorable it will be doubly a breach of our duty toward posterity to allow the lack to exist any longer ... True, there are a few old log books stored away in the public library or here and there in the closet of some private collector, but when one contemplates the tons and tons of them that have been ground up into wrapping paper of prosaic fiber wash tubs,

1386-690: The pioneers of scientific management . Kendall was born in 1878 in Charlestown, Massachusetts , son of Henry Lucien Kendall and Clara Idella (Plimpton) Kendal. After attending the Lawrenceville School , boarding schools in New Jersey, he graduated from Amherst College in Massachusetts in 1899. After his graduation in 1899, he started his career at the Plimpton Press company in Norwood, Massachusetts,

1428-526: The preeminent painter of the western American landscape. Bierstadt's technical proficiency, earned through his study of European landscape, was crucial to his success as a painter of the American West and accounted for his popularity in disseminating views of the Rocky Mountains to those who had not seen them. During the American Civil War (1861 to 1865), Bierstadt was drafted in 1863 and paid for

1470-515: The warmer climate of Nassau in the Bahamas until her death in 1893. He also maintained travel between the western United States, Canada , and his studio in New York. Though his painting career continued later into his life, Bierstadt's work fell increasingly out of critical favor and was increasingly attacked for its theatrical tone. In 1882, a fire destroyed Bierstadt's studio at Irvington, New York , and, with it, many of his paintings. Bierstadt

1512-535: The words of one critic, a "vast machinery of advertisement and puffery." Bierstadt's popularity in the U.S. remained strong during his European tour. The publicity generated by his Yosemite Valley paintings in 1868 led a number of explorers to request his presence as part of their westward expeditions. The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad also commissioned him to visit and paint the Grand Canyon and surrounding region. Despite his popular success, Bierstadt

1554-805: Was a prolific artist, having completed over 500 paintings during his lifetime. Yet by the time of his death on February 18, 1902, the taste for epic landscape painting had long since subsided. Bierstadt was buried at the Rural Cemetery in New Bedford, Massachusetts , and remained largely forgotten for nearly 60 years. Interest in Bierstadt's work was renewed in the 1960s with the exhibition of his small oil studies. Modern opinions of Bierstadt have been divided. Some critics have regarded his work as gaudy, oversized, extravagant champions of Manifest Destiny . Others have noted that his landscapes helped create support for

1596-640: Was an active philanthropist. He founded the Kendall Foundation and served on the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions , a Christian mission society. Kendall's property Moose Hill Farm is now an open space for the public. Kendall died on November 3, 1959, in Sharon, Massachusetts . In 1921-22 Kendall had served as 5h president of the Taylor Society as successor of Henry S. Dennison , and

1638-446: Was criticized by some contemporaries for the romanticism evident in his choice of subjects and for his use of light, which they found excessive. Some critics objected to Bierstadt's paintings of Native Americans based on their belief that including Indigenous Americans "marred" the "impression of solitary grandeur." His wife, Rosalie, was diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1876, and Bierstadt spent increasing amounts of time with her in

1680-605: Was exhibited at the Brooklyn Art Association at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in December 1861. Curator Eleanor Jones Harvey observed that the painting, created from photographs, "is quintessentially that of a voyeur, privy to the stories and unblemished by the violence and brutality of first-hand combat experience." Financial recognition confirmed his status: The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak , completed in 1863,

1722-491: Was purchased for $ 25,000 in 1865, the equivalent of almost $ 400,000 in 2020. In 1867, Bierstadt returned to Europe, arriving in London where he exhibited two landscape paintings in a private reception with Queen Victoria . He then travelled through Europe for the next two years, painting new works while also cultivating social and business contacts to sustain the market for his art on the continent. For example, he painted Among

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1764-531: Was succeeded by Richard A. Feiss . In 1934 and 1935 he served as Chairman of The Business Council , then known as Business Advisory Council for the United States Department of Commerce . In the manufacturing village of Slatersville, Rhode Island , the Kendall Dean School was named in his honor. Kendall also founded the Kendall Whaling Museum in Sharon, Massachusetts , in 1955, which in 2001

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