Fenimore Art Museum houses some of the nation's finest examples of American landscape, history and genre paintings, American folk art, photography and American Indian art.
Information
- Location:
- Cooperstown, NY, 13326
- Phone:
- 1-888-547-1450
- Mon - Sun:
- 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Exhibitions
Walker Evans: Carbon and Steel
July 18 - December 31, 2009
New Additions / New Perspectives: American Indian Art
April 1 - December 31, 2009
Bits of Home
April 1 - December 31, 2009
The Coopers of Cooperstown
April 1 - December 31, 2009
America's Rome: Artists in the Eternal City, 1800-1900May 23 - December 31, 2009
Fenimore Art Museum Don't miss Night at Our Museum tomorrow at 7pm. Kids free!
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This week Fenimore Art Museum will be debuting a new program called Night at Our Museum from 7-10 pm. This new program will open our doors for a little after-hours fun for families and kids of all ages in the galleries of the museum. ...
Fenimore Art Museum Ralph Fasanella's "Night Game - Yankee Stadium"
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Another Yankee triumph. The perfect day to reflect on one of my favorite works by the New York City folk artist Ralph Fasanella. This large painting (60” x 60”) entitled “Night Game – ...
Fenimore Art Museum What do museums started by the Clark brothers do for fun? Compete in softball for the Clark Cup!
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When Stephen C. Clark and his old brother Sterling had a falling-out back in the 1920s, I’m fairly certain neither foresaw one result of their quarrel: a couple dozen museum staff members playing softball on a muddy field in Cooperstown on a cold and wet October morning in 2009. ...
Fenimore Art Museum A Canal Runs Through It
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I was in New York recently to attend the opening of the new exhibition of American genre painting, “American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915” at the Metropolitan and had the ...
Fenimore Art Museum Join us on Saturday at 7:30 pm for a rockin' family concert and a Night at OUR Museum!
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Fenimore Art Museum Help us curate an exhibit at the museum! Stay tuned for more details.
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It was quite an October, way beyond my expectations. When I started this blog back in August my goal was to share some of the great stories about folk art that I had heard over the course of my 27 years studying the collection at the Feinmore Art Museum. ...
Fenimore Art Museum Walker Evans: Carbon and Silver is on view through 2009. Here's a great blog post from a recent visit to the exhibition.
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Walker Evans (1903-1975) was undoubtedly one of America’s greatest photographers. His black-and-white images stand as time capsules of an America now gone but still familiar. Evans is best known ...
Fenimore Art Museum Limner Makes a House Call
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Portraiture was a tough way to make a living in 19th-century America, but it was also one of the only ways a painter could find work. The Boston portraitist John Singleton Copley once complained: “Were ...
Fenimore Art Museum Check out this post from guest blogger Michelle Harvey, whose work will be exhibited at the museum in 2010.
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I needed to see the bones of Cooperstown.The Fenimore Art Museum had requested I put together a landscape show with a sense of place. I had been to Cooperstown many, many times, but wanted to dig deeper. ...
Fenimore Art Museum The Big Crate
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As any registrar can attest, sometimes we have to get creative in our line of work. Case in point: When a painting for our current exhibit America’s Rome came to us from the Spanierman Gallery in New York City last spring the crate was larger than I expected and I had to think fast on my feet. ...
Fenimore Art Museum What would you like to see at this winter’s Cabin Fever Film series? Please share your suggestions for travel-related movies for our 2010 theme, Cabin Fever Hits the Road. The film series brings movies to Cooperstown on Friday nights in January and February and is sponsored by the National Baseball Hall of Fame, the Fenimore Art Museum, and Glimmerglass Opera.
Fenimore Art Museum Carver (and prankster) Edgar Tolson
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If we did not know who carved the “Temptation of Adam” in the Fenimore Art Museum collection (lower right) it would be easy to infer that it must have been done by a person singularly devoted to God and living a simple, holy life. ...
Fenimore Art Museum Bring your family for an evening at our museum!
Dance, Sing & Smile with Uncle Rock!
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Time:7:00PM Saturday, November 7th
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"America's Rome" is featured in today's Albany Times-Union! http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/sto
'America's Rome' at Fenimore Art Museum explores American fascination with empire -- Page 1 -- Times
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John Linton Chapman's 1869 painting 'The Appian Way' takes a panoramic view from the main road through Rome, encompassing the ruins honoring the republic's great senators, the dilapidated aqueduct sprawling across swaths of countryside where humble peasants mill about.
