“Darling, I am nuts about you. Waln’t you be my Valentine?” Sam used a print of his Black Walnuts to dedicate this loving note to Barbara Crawford. The original woodblock print is at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It won Honors in the 1950 and 1952 Philadelphia Printmaker’s Annual.
RECOLLECTIONS FROM STUDENTS OF SAM FEINSTEIN AND BARBARA CRAWFORD In preparation for this exhibition, SCH reached out to Barbara Crawford’s former Chestnut Hill Academy and Springside School students to ask what they remembered about their time in her class. Barbara introduced John Wenzel, Theodore Clattenberg, Thorpe Feidt, Bonnie Warwick, Lewis Tanner Moore, and Binney Meigs to Sam Feinstein, and these students went on to paint and study under him for many more years. Barbara Crawford taught grades 1–12 in the basement of the Wissahickon Inn. The above students in their last years of high school called themselves the “Cellar Rats,” as they hung out whenever they could in Barbara’s art room. Here is what they share years later.
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