Cornelia Nell Cousins Egan
Painted by John Northcross in 1971. Originally owned by Dr. George Van Derveer Gallenkamp then to Richard Paul Wunder. From the estate of actor/artist Peter Turgeon. Mr. Turgeon played a doctor on the original Dark Shadows television series
JOHN NORTHCROSS (American, 20th Century), Portrait Mrs. Martin Egan. Oil on linen. Signed lower left John Northcross. Has a tag affixed to the frame, portrait of Mrs. Martin Egan, "T.C." property of George B. Gallenkamp painted by John Northcross 1971. There is a typed label on back stretcher, Property of Dr. George Gallenkamp Orwell, Vt. Good condition. Painting measures 50" x 30 ¼". Period frame measures 58 ¾" x 39". House of Heydenryk custom frame. Painting is from the Amagansett, Long Island estate of artist/actor Peter Turgeon (1919-1999).

Peter Turgeon was born in Hinsdale, Illinois in 1919 and died at the age of 80 in Amagansett, Long Island, New York. His primary career was as an actor, director and script writer. His career spanned 60 years and he appeared on Broadway, summer stock, in television and in the movies. A comic actor, Mr. Turgeon devoted his life to the theater but had taken up drawing and painting while young and developed his own unique style. He considered his model to be the American primitive school with influences from nautical paintings (his ship series, mostly shown off Montauk Point) and Theodore Rousseau.

In the 1940s through 1960s, Turgeon created a series of paintings that captured New York City during this period: from the area around the Queensborough Bridge to scenes from Broadway. When he purchased an old house in the small farming town of Amagansett in the late 1950s, he began to paint scenes from the Hamptons but always the images of the beach, the historic ships that had sailed off the coast and quiet images of nature and people.

One of his paintings, of the Great Eastern that was damaged off of Montauk Point in 1862, was featured on a postcard sold in Montauk. In the 1970s through 1990s Turgeon exhibited his work in a number of small local galleries in the Hamptons and sold his work to private collectors.

He favored imagined images of a gentler and quieter time in the far eastern Long Island Communities and a fabled New York City of the 1940s and 50s.

His work is mostly owned by his children, his many friends from around the world and collectors who enjoy an authentic primitive style.

Written and submitted by Wendy Turgeon, daughter of the artist.

House East Hampton

Thanks to Wendy T. for photo

Green-Wood Cemetery
Section 177, Lots 12637-12640.

Egan footstones

Many thanks to Bob Collins

Green-Wood Cemetery
Section 177, Lots 12637-12640.

The Cyrus Flint Lots.

Many thanks to Bob Collins

---Monument, left side, bottom half:
Kate A. Molineux.
Born October 11, 1833,
Died June 25, 1921.
Cornelia Flint Cousins Egan
July 18, 1888 – February 10, 1972