Exhibitions
May 26, 2023 through December 30, 2023
This exciting exhibition features newly framed photographs and color advertisements, and showcases favorite materials rarely seen in person.
Exhibition themes include the vitality of Canajoharie, NY, and the impact of the Beech-Nut Packing Company on the community and people across the nation.
Did you know that Amelia Earhart was a Beech-Nut sponsor?
This exhibit includes the "cover" that she carried across
the Pacific and the studio photograph taken by noted NYC photographer Ben Pinchot, both inscribed and autographed by Earhart.
Did you watch Batman on TV in the 1960s?
Burgess Meredith, The Penguin, was also a celebrity sponsor for Beech-Nut as his 1930s radio character "Red Davis". This exhibit includes a studio photograph taken by Ben Pinchot, inscribed and signed by Meredith.
Do you like early vehicles or parades?
What about advertisements promoting peanut butter soup?
(no kidding - peanut butter soup!)
All of these and more are featured in this exhibit!
"The play is “My Sister Eileen” and as I understand it there is a girl in it who wears a Beech-Nut sampling girl costume…"
Bartlett Arkell to Frank Barbour, January 13, 1941
Shirley Booth as a Sample Girl in My Sister Eileen, ca. 1940
Lucas & Monroe Studio Photograph, NYC
Collection of the Arkell Museum
Funding from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature supported all framing, and exhibit design and installation.
March 3, 2023 through December 30, 2024
You told me earlier in the year that some day you wanted a fine Inness…
Robert Macbeth to Bartlett Arkell, March 8, 1917
The Macbeth Gallery had a profound impact on the development of American art. It was the first gallery in New York City to focus on work by American artists, and held many ground-breaking exhibits. Today, the gallery is recognized for raising an interest in and creating a market for American art during its sixty-plus years as an influential firm (1892-1953). Our founder Bartlett Arkell made many important purchases at the Macbeth Gallery, and worked closely with gallery directors to build our extraordinary collection. This exhibit is a tribute to his vision for the future, and the early work of the Macbeth Gallery.
This exhibition features three Winslow Homer watercolors, two Gilbert Stuart portraits, and oil paintings of the Erie Canal. Also included are works by John Singer Sargent, George Bellows, Jon Corbino, Paul Sample, George Luks, and many more. On display through December 29, 2024.
George Inness (1825-1894)
The Rainbow, ca. 1878
Oil on canvas
Arkell Museum Collection, Gift of Bartlett Arkell
Purchased by Bartlett Arkell from the Macbeth Gallery, 1934
September 3, 2022 through December 30, 2022
Featuring rarely seen large works on paper from the Arkell Museum's permanent collection including work by Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, NC and Andrew Wyeth, and more,
Winslow Homer (1836-1910)
Homecoming, 1883 (detail)
Watercolor over graphite on wove paper
Gift of Bartlett Arkell (by bequest), 1946
