Harlem artist mounts an exhibit in Morris-Jumel Mansion uptown, where George Washington slept | NY Daily News

BY Clem Richardson

Artist Andrea Arroyo unveils ‘Women Unbound’ in the historic Washington Heights mansion, used as a headquarters by Washington during the Revolutionary War.

Photo: Viorel Florescu | NY Daily News Artist Andrea Arroyo in a room at the Morris-Jumel Mansion in Washington Heights, where an exhibition of her work, ‘Women Unbound,’ will be on display now through Jan. 7, 2013.

“Napoleon” is, of course Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France who, by that date, had been exiled to Elba. Madame Eliza Bowen Jumel, a Boston-born, rumored lady of the evening who nevertheless rose to be, among many things, a prominent Manhattan businesswoman and mistress of the palatial mansion that still overlooks the Harlem River between 160th and 162nd Sts. in Washington Heights.

Arroyo is a Mexican-born artist and Washington Heights resident whose work appears in the Smithsonian Institute, the Library of Congress and in public and private collections around the world.

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