Now Showing at the Arkell
Please join us at the Museum for these current exhibitions.
Arkell’s Inspiration:
The Marketing of Beech-Nut and Art for the People
Permanent Exhibition
Bartlett Arkell’s collection of late 19th and early 20th century American paintings and the use of his collection to market Beech-Nut products is the focus of this exhibition. The exhibition will be on display in Arkell’s original gallery and in new exhibition spaces. Arkell’s collection of works by Winslow Homer, American Impressionists, and members of The Eight will be reinstalled in the restored original gallery.
Bartlett Arkell, founder of the Canajoharie Library Art Gallery and the first President of Beech-Nut Packing Company, encouraged his marketing staff to use his collection in their print ads. The result of this borrowing of images from oil paintings created by artists such as Edward Gay and J.G. Brown, was a series of ad campaigns that brought “art to the masses” and linked the virtues found in the paintings with Beech-Nut gum and food products. Museum visitors will have an opportunity to use images from the collection to create their own Beech-Nut advertisement to take home or mail as a postcard.
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Exhibition funded, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.
American Ruins
On Display
October 4, 2008 to January 21, 2009
Arthur Drooker has photographed historic sites throughout the United States. American Ruins features fifty sepia-toned infrared photographs of more than 25 historical sites. Drooker captures these ruins and preserves them for a moment in time. His subjects include adobe missions and the remains of elegant mansions. To be included in Drooker's project, the ruins had to meet certain criteria: they had to be part of a preservation program, they had to have historical value and they had to represent the geographic and architectural diversity of America.
Arthur Drooker, Bannerman Castle, Pollepel Island, New York, 1901
Sleigh Bells, Green Fields and Falling Leaves:
Four seasons of American Landscape Painting
On Display
November 1, 2008 to February 7, 2009
E.W. Redfield, Sleigh Bells, 1920
Experience America’s four seasons of snow, fall colors and green fields depicted in paintings from the Arkell Museum’s permanent collection. The exhibition includes autumn paintings by Willard Metcalf and Alexander Wyant, winter scenes painted by E. W. Redfield, Walter Launt Palmer and Grandma Moses, and summer and spring landscapes by George Inness and William Glackens.
