Though often confused with grand tour travelers or famous dandies, Torrent Chadwick and Chadwick Dalton are in fact a New York City-based interpretive team that, among other things, specializes in docent services for the five boroughs. As editors of the Chadwick Family Papers, artists Jimbo Blachly and Lytle Shaw have mounted this encyclopedic display of artifacts, folio pages and murals, with a centerpiece volcano garden folly model, and an accompanying soundtrack. According to the Chadwicks, these artifacts depict a visionary project undertaken by Bashford Dean (1867-1928). As one Wave Hill House’s illustrious residents, Dean built Armor Hall to house his armor collection. While residing here, Dean was a professor of Zoology at Columbia University, and held simultaneous curatorial positions at the Museum of Natural History (reptiles and fishes), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (arms and armor). Bashford’s Grotto represents an alternate vision for how Wave Hill might have been improved.

As editors of the Chadwick family papers, Blachly and Shaw have collaborated on projects for Soft Sites, Institute of Contemporary Art/Bartram’s Garden, Philadelphia, PA; Romantic Detachment, P.S. 1/MoMA, Long Island City, NY; and Artists to Artist, Ace Gallery, New York, NY. Jimbo Blachly’s work has been exhibited widely including at the Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY; Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY; Cirius Arts Center Cobh, Ireland; and Hunter College’s Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, New York, NY. He has received fellowships from the Farpath Fellowship, Dijon, France, and the Bellagio Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation. He earned his BFA from The School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL, and his MFA from University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.

Lytle Shaw's poetry books include Principles of the Emeryville Shellmound, Low Level Bureaucratic Structures: A Novel, Cable Factory 20 and The Lobe. He wrote the critical study, Frank O'Hara: The Poetics of Coterie; and catalog essays on Robert Smithson for DIA Center and on The Royal Art Lodge for The Drawing Center. He is an assistant professor of English at New York University. He earned a BA in English at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, and Ph.D. in English from University of California, Berkeley.