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, 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.
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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