Canoe, Constitution Marsh
Archival pigment photograph, 17" x 22", Framed, © Joseph Squillante, 2000
Artist: Joseph Squillante

Constitution Marsh is an Audubon Sanctuary on the Hudson River in Garrison.

Joseph Squillante has been photographing the Hudson River for over 40 years from its source at Lake Tear of the Clouds in the Adirondacks to its mouth at New York Harbor.

Well-respected by the Hudson River community, Joseph works with organizations such as Riverkeeper, Clearwater and Scenic Hudson who has recognized him as a "Hudson Valley Hero."

A New York Times reviewer noted that some of Joseph's pictures are similar in style to Hudson River School, Barbizon, and 19th-century Realist painters. Like the Hudson landscape painters before him, he is attracted to the beauty and romance of the river.

Joseph's environmental work was exhibited at the New-York Historical Society's Hudson Rising; and he collaborated with Northern Dutchess Symphony Orchestra in American Songfest with his Hudson River photography accompaniment to the music of Pete Seeger, Aaron Copeland & Morton Gould.

His mission is to foster an awareness of the river's visual magnificence through photography. To this end he cultivates an appreciation for the Hudson through workshops, lecture presentations, in-classroom talks, lessons, exhibitions, and note cards and prints.

A number of Joseph's photographs are in the permanent collections of the New-York Historical Society, Museum of the City of New York, Albany Institute of History and Art, the New York State Museum and the Hudson River Museum.

He is a member of the American Society of Media Photographers, Arts Westchester Teaching Artist Roster and the Peekskill Arts Alliance, and is a former Vice-Chair of the Historic and Landmarks Preservation Board for the City of Peekskill.

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