Picturing Women: American Artists’ Images of Women 1780s-1940
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March 4, 2010 - June 8, 2010
The Arkell Museum owns remarkable portraits of women painted by notable American artists such as Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Eakins and Mary Cassatt. This exhibition includes these portraits along with other painted views of women at leisure and perusing everyday activities. The representations of women in this exhibition range from young to old, and from entirely decorative to thoroughly personal. Some are formally posed portraits while others, such as Reginald Marsh’s watercolor A Windy Day, capture a specific snap-shot moment in time. |
Reginald March
Windy Day, c. 1940 watercolor on paper |
Walter Wick: Games, Gizmos and Toys in the Attic
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November 15, 2009 – February 15, 2010
Walter Wick’s photographs and models escape the book to assume a larger than life presence that magically draws both children and adults into a world of make believe. The exhibition, organized by the New Britain Museum of American Art, includes enlarged photographs and models used for Walter Wick’s popular I Spy and Can You See What I See? children’s books. |
O Frabjous Mirrors! © Walter Wick 1984
from Games Magazine |
Moving Frontiers: Early Transportation in the Mohawk Valley
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August 20, 2009 – November 4, 2009
This exhibition of images, objects and revealing quotes provides a glimpse back to a time when people and supplies traveled only by river, road, canal and train. Photographs, paintings, trade signs, a boat model and a sleigh manufactured in the 19th century will be on display next to the words of European visitors who traveled through the Mohawk Valley in the 18th and 19th centuries. The exhibition was developed in conjunction with the symposium Moving Frontiers: Early Transportation in the Mohawk Valley (October 17-18, 2009). Exhibition funded, in part, by the New York Council for the Humanities. |
Maitland Armstrong (1836 - 1918)
Grocery Store on the Erie Canal, c. 1881 Arkell Museum Collection |