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The American Art Collection of the Arkell Museum and Canajoharie Library comes from Beech-Nut Packing co. founder Bartlett Arkell.
Arkell purchased and donated some of the finest American paintings he could acquire.

Oil painting. Portrait of a young girl with blond hair a blue eyes, her face is very pale. She wears a green dress

George Bellows (1882-1925) Anne, ca. 1922. Oil on canvas, Gift of Bartlett Arkell, 1925

Image description: An impressionist painting in a palette of pinks, blues and brown. It shows the tall ship U.S.S Constitution sailing toward the viewer with all sails out. The sails are colored pink by the light. There are pink clouds in the background.

Clifford W. Ashley (1881-1947). The U.S.S. Constitution, 1929. Oil on canvas, Gift of Bartlett Arkell, 1930

Thomas Hart Benton (1899-1975). New England RFD Carrier, ca. 1923. Oil on canvas, Gift of Bartlett Arkell, 1926

A watercolor painting of a full moon over a gentle sea. The sky is gray blue with a bright moon near the center. The light of the moon shines off the water. Two figures, a man and a woman sit on the beach near the water and are silhouetted against the sea. The woman looks away from the man, she carries a hand fan.

Winslow Homer (1836-1910), Moonlight, 1874, Watercolor and graphite on paper, Gift of Bartlett Arkell, 1941

Woman seated at a large round table. She is looking down at her hands where she works on something. Behind her are large portraits. The light is dramatic and comes from the right side where there is a window.

Edmund Tarbell, (1862-1938), Girl Crocheting, 1904, Oil on canvas, Gift of Bartlett Arkell

Landscape scene of rolling hills with a river in the center, to the left of the river in the foreground is a canal. There is a small boat on the canal. There is a woman walking in the foreground on a dirt path.

William Coventry Wall, (1810-1886), New York and the Erie Canal (The Erie Canal), 1862, Oil on canvas, Gift of Bartlett Arkell, 1934

Winslow Homer (1836-1910), On the Beach, ca. 1869, Oil on canvas, Gift of Bartlett Arkell, 1932

A boy sits at a wooden red desk. He has brown hair and pale skin. He wears a loose white shirt and brown pants held up by suspenders. He leans on the desk over a book, his expression is one of studiousness or boredom.

Winslow Homer (1836-1910), Homework, 1874, Watercolor and graphite on paper, Gift of Bartlett Arkell, 1940

Landscape painting of the mountain El Capitan. The right fore and mid ground feature trees. There is a tree almost center to the painting. The right and mid ground are grassland. In the background a gray mountain rises. It is gray and rises vertically to a flat top.

Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902), El Capitan, ca. 1872, Oil on paper mounted on linen, Gift from the Estate of Laura Platt, 1964

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