Exhibitions
May 15, 2009 – August 5, 2009
The exhibition juxtaposes the work of contemporary artists with 19th and early 20th century painters that may have influenced, inspired or led them in an opposite direction. Contemporary artists in this exhibition include April Gornik, Stephen Hannock, Stanley Lewis, Jane Lund, Dennis Pinette and Devorah Sperber. The 19th century paintings in Then & Now were created by notable artists such as George Inness, Ralph Blakelock and Thomas Eakins. Museum visitors will have the unique opportunity to compare the subjects, themes, materials, and painting techniques found in works by American artists of today to earlier masters of landscape and portrait painting.
Exhibition funded, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.
February 1, 2009-May 3, 2009
The exhibition includes 60 original works that were used to illustrate romantic fiction from the 1890s through the mid twentieth century. The drawings, watercolors and oil paintings were created by well-known artists as James Montgomery Flagg, Dean Cornwell, Henry Raleigh, Coby Whitmore, Alex Ross, F.R. Gruger and Alice Barber Stephens. Many works accompanied love stories in early issues of magazines such as Saturday Evening Post, McCall’s, Cosmopolitan, Harper’s Monthly, Redbook, Good Housekeeping, Woman’s Home Companion and Ladies Home Journal, which published original fiction in each issue.
November 1, 2008 - May 3, 2009
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.
