Thursday, August 7, 2025

Fenimore Museum (8/7/2025)

Thursday, August 7, 2025 (continued)
Continued to Cooperstown, NY to visit the Fenimore Art Museum.
Fenimore Art Museum is located in a 1933 mansion built
by Edward Severin Clark, an heir to the Singer
Manufacturing Company fortune, on property once
owned by author James Fenimore Cooper
Grand staircase
Study Center (like a museum open-storage room):
Birch-bark shoes
Great Hall: Boundless Spirit: American Folk Art:
 Girl of the Period (c 1875, by Samuel A Robb
Workshop for Squirrel brand cigars) and
Appliqué Quilt (1863-1934, by Susan E York
Bullard and Mary Isabel Bullard Barclay) 
George Washington on a Horse (1860-
1870, artist unknown)
Peaceable Kingdom (1830-1835, by Edward Hicks) 
Clark Gallery: The Power of Photography: 19th-20th Century Original Master Prints:
Figure and Waterfall, Iceland (2018, by Jeffrey Conley)
Japanese Women (c 1870s, photographer unknown)
Thaw Gallery of American Indian Art:
Jim's Medicine Bag (2022, by
Karen Ann Hoffman, Oneida tribe)
Beacon Lights Basket (c 1904, by
Dat So La Lee, Washoe tribe)
Storage Jar (2023, by Russell Sanchez)
Horse Mask (c 1875-1900, Nez Perce or Cayuse) (KSS)
Scriven Gallery: Mary Cassatt / Berthe Morisot: Allies in Impressionism:
Maternal Caress (1891, by Mary Cassatt)
Peasant Girl Among Tulips (1890, by Berthe Morisot)
Summertime (1894, by Mary Cassatt)
Woman and Child (1894, by Berthe Morisot) (KSS)
Hélène is Restless (c 1890, by Mary Cassatt)
East Gallery: Emily Pettigrew: Painting in the Catskills 2021-2025:
Back from the Mainland (2024) (KSS)
Still Frozen (2023)
The Reaper (2025)
Community Gallery: Memories Under Glass: Assemblages by Nancy C Donnelly:
Down the Rabbit Hole (1990s)
Noah's Ark (mid-1990s)
Kitchen Cupboard/Closet (undated) (KSS)
Education Room
American Painting Gallery: American Masterworks:
Portrait of Laurence Millet (1887,
by John Singer Sargent)
St Germain l'Auxerrois (1897,
by Childe Hassam) (KSS)
Main Gallery: American Memory: Recalling the Past in Folk Art:
Peaceable Kingdom (1825-1830, by Edward Hicks)
with a reference to William Penn and the Treaty Oak
Sugaring Off (1945, by Anna Mary Robertson 'Grandma' Moses)
Night Game - Yankee Stadium (1961, by Ralph Fasanella)
Untitled (1978, by Howard Finster) (KSS)
Weathervanes (late 19C): Bannerette, Sulky with Driver,
Stag, and Cow
Sulky and Driver (late 19C) (KSS)
Sullivan's Diner IV (1989, by Mary Michael Shelley)
Cooper Gallery: American Masterworks:
Mount Hood, Columbia River (1890,
by Albert Bierstadt)
South American Landscape (c 1856, by
Frederic Edwin Church)
Haida Totem Pole (2010, by Red davidson)
One of the Finger Lakes: Otsego Lake

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