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Fenimore Art Museum and Farmers Museum
Cooperstown, NY

 

Situated 25 miles north of the City of Oneonta is Cooperstown, New York, home of notable attractions such as The Fenimore Art Museum and The Farmer's Museum.

The Fenimore Art Museum

The Fenimore Art Museum, located on the shores of Otsego Lake -- James Fenimore Cooper's "Glimmerglass Lake" -- in historic Cooperstown, New York, features a wide-ranging collection of American art including:  folk art; important American 18th and 19th century landscape, genre and portrait paintings; an extensive collection of domestic artifacts; more than 125,000 historical photographs representing the technical developments made in photography and providing extensive visual documentation of the region's unique history; and the renowned Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art comprising more than 850 art objects representative of a broad geographic range of North American Indian cultures, from the Northwest Coast, Eastern Woodlands, Plans, Southwest, Great Lakes, and Prairie regions.  Founded in 1945, the Fenimore Art Museum is the NYSHA's showplace museum.

The Fenimore's 2010 exhibition schedule features John Singer Sargent:  Portraits in Praise of Women (May 29 - December 31, 2010), a major exhibition of portraits of women by the well known American artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925).  The exhibition explores Sargent's range of styles and depth of characterization in his portraits of society women, as well as his fascination with exotic working-class women of Venice and Capri.  The paintings and drawings provide an intimate glimpse into the lives of these women of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  Included will be drawings of Madame Gautreau, the mysterious subject of Sargent's famous portrait of Madame X.  Please visit www.FenimoreArtMuseum.org for further information and other exhibtions.

The Farmer's Museum

As one of the oldest rural life museums in the country, The Farmer's Museum in Cooperstown, New York provides visitors with a unique opportunity to experience 19th-Century rural and village life firsthand through demonstrations and interpretive exhibits. The museum, founded in 1943, comprises a working farmstead, a recreated historic village, a County Fair featuring The Empire State Carousel, and a Colonial Revival stone barn listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the museum preserves important examples of upstate New York architecture, early agricultural tools and equipment, and heritage livestock.  Its collection of more than 23,000 items encompasses significant historic objects ranging from butter molds to carriages, hand planes to plows.  The museum presents a broad range of interactive educational programs for school groups, families, and adults that explore and preserve the rich agricultural history of the region.  Please visit www.FarmersMuseum.org for further information.


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