Exhibitions
Exhibition sponsored by the Beech-Nut Nutrition Company
June 12 - October 16, 2016
Featuring colorful paintings of the American circus by artists from the 1920s and 1930s alongside circus-themed marketing materials used by the Beech-Nut Packaging Company.
The Circus coming to town was a highly anticipated event in small towns across America during the early decades of the 20th century. Leading American artists painted the spectacle of the parade as the circus arrived and the excitement under the big top. Images of circus cars, animals and acrobats were also used to market food products during the 1930s. The Beech-Nut Packaging Company was one of the companies to use the excitement and nostalgia of the circus to sell its products. This culminated in the creation of Beech-Nut miniature circuses that traveled across the country by bus, and a circus themed pavilion at the New York World’s Fair in 1939.
Artists in the exhibition include Norman Rockwell, Jon Corbino, Everett Shinn, Ogden Pleissner and more.
Organized by the National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature in Abilene, Texas
October 22, 2016 - December 30, 2016
The exhibition features the amazing work of pop-up book creators Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart. The exhibition contains over 70 original works from 14 of their books including the classic stories of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Jungle Book and Cinderella. There are also works created for Encyclopedias on Dinosaurs, Sharks and Fairies.
This exhibition is supported by Fenimore Asset Management Fund.
Meet the artist Matthew Reinhart on November 12th. For details see http://www.arkellmuseum.org/events-calendar
March 1, 2016 - October 30 , 2016
Edward Buyck (1888-1960) was commissioned to paint two historic views of Canajoharie as part of the Sesquicentennial celebration and pageant of Clinton’s Brigade that brought boats overland from the Mohawk River at Canajoharie to Otsego Lake. Canajoharie’s 150th anniversary celebration of Revolutionary War events opened with a two mile long parade that included floats carrying log cabins, stage couches, a wagon and other regional historic treasures from the American Revolution. Militia hauling boats in a reenactment of Clinton’s Brigade at Canajoharie also marched along with the parade that attracted a crowd of 15,800 people on June 15, 1929.
The exhibition features both of the the paintings created by Buyck for the Sesquicentennial celebration along with 18th century paintings of Americans by Gilbert Stuart and Benjamin West.
Exhibitions are supported in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
