Arkell Museum Press Room
Recent Press Releases
Here are our most up-to-date announcements on activities at the Arkell Museum. For recent TV, print, and online stories about the Museum, see our Media page.
JUNE 11 , 2010
- Reflections on Water in American Painting will open its national tour at The Arkell Museum at Canajoharie, N.Y.
- Reflections on Water in American Painting will open its national tour at The Arkell Museum at Canajoharie, N.Y. on June 19, 2010 and run through October 3, 2010.
Ranging in date from 1828 to 1945, the exhibition opens with the earliest form of American maritime painting – the grand academic-style portraits of graceful sailing ships– and includes waterscapes from the sea to the lakes and rivers of the American heartland, light-flooded impressionist visions of quaint New England seaside towns, and modernist renderings of industrial waterfronts and everyday life on the water.
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FEBRUARY 24 , 2010
- Performer Kitty Jones Kicks off Women’s History Month
at March 7 Arkell Museum Family Day - The Arkell Museum at Canajoharie announces a special Family Day featuring nationally-acclaimed performer Kit Jones with her one-woman show “Women’s Rights,” slated for Sunday, March 7. Admission to the performance and Arkell Museum exhibitions is free on March 7 thanks to a generous sponsorship by Fidelis Care.
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FEBRUARY 24 , 2010
- Two New Exhibitions at the Arkell Museum
feature American Paintings from the Permanent Collection. - American Tonalism: Paintings of Poetry and Soul and Picturing Women: American Artists’ Images of Women 1780s -1940 feature some of the Arkell Museum’s best known works by George Inness, Ralph Blakelock, Albert P. Ryder, Mary Cassatt, Gilbert Stuart and Thomas Eakins. ..........
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OCTOBER 18 , 2009
- Walter Wick: Games, Gizmos and Toys in the Attic
- This exhibition of enlarged photographs and models will transport both adults and children into a magical world. The exhibition opens at the Arkell Museum at Canajoharie on Sunday. November 15th with an opportunity to meet Walter Wick and see how he creates his photographs of fairy tales and optical tricks.
Walter Wick's interest in puzzles and optical illusions led to work for Games magazine in the 1980's ..........
Read complete press release (PDF) - Moving Frontiers: Early Transportation in the Mohawk Valley
- This exhibition of images, objects and revealing quotes provides a glimpse back to a time when people and supplies traveled only by river, road, canal and train. Photographs, paintings, trade signs, a model of the DeWitt Clinton train, a canal boat model and a sleigh manufactured in the 19th century will be on display next to the words of European visitors who traveled
through the Mohawk Valley in the 18th and 19th centuries..........
Read complete press release (PDF) - Then & Now: Contemporary Artists Revisit the Past, May 16-August 5, 2009 at The Arkell Museum at Canajoharie
- The exhibition Then & Now: Contemporary Artists Revisit the Past contrasts the work of contemporary artists with 19th and early 20th century painters who 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. .........
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