The Arkell Museum | Canajoharie, New York

American art and Mohawk Valley history are celebrated in exhibitions and programs at the Arkell Museum at Canajoharie. Visitors to the museum will discover paintings by remarkable American artists such as Winslow Homer, George Inness, Ralph Blakelock, Childe Hassam, Robert Henri, and Thomas Hart Benton. The Arkell Museum’s collection also includes objects and archives related to the Mohawk Valley. The landscape of the Mohawk Valley and the marketing of Beech-Nut products are subjects explored in museum programs and exhibitions. The Arkell Museum is located halfway between Albany and Utica — just three blocks from Exit 29 on the New York State Thruway (I-90).

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American Paintings from the 1920s & 1930s in the Arkell Collections provides a fascinating glimpse at two decades of collecting by the American Industrialist Bartlett Arkell, and a look at some of the best known artists working in the 1920s and 1930s. Arkell favored Realist and Impressionist works that presented nostalgic views of America unchanged by industry—not avant-garde art. He acquired paintings by Impressionists and Ashcan School artists who had once shocked people with their controversial subject matter and method of painting, but by the 1920s were hailed as America’s greatest artists. Arkell also collected Regionalist paintings that had won acclaim for their apparent celebration of “American values.”

(August 22, 2011 Until May 27, 2012)