Nature Done Wright

I did a story for The Record today on one of North Jersey’s unheralded gems, the Blauvelt Art Museum on Kinderkamack Road in Oradell.

  Although my story on the EnviroWatch Page (L-3) focused in part on a big exhibition planned for September, the museum’s permanent collection is also well worth a visit. And it’s free.

   Subject matter ranges from sculptures of giraffes to oil painting of elephants and great egrets. It also features an elephant folio edition of Audubon’s "Birds of America" under glass — impressive in its own right.

   The museum, in a converted carraige house on the old Blauvelt estate,  sits atop a hill just to the north of downtown Oradell. The setting is great. The museum itself is even better.

   Here’s a link to the museum.