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Thursday, September 18, 2014

Visiting the Fenimore Museum in Cooperstown, New York







The Fenimore Art Museum
has wonderful collections.






Len Tantillo paintings fill
one of the galleries.







Len Tantillo, an Upstate New York native, is known for historically themed paintings base on extensive research.






Everyday details of life in
bustling Syracuse are on
display in Washington 
Street, 1933.







Tantillo's adept use of light
 is demonstrated in Horizon
of the Last Sailor.
River Sloop, is beautifully
detailed, as it sails toward
the horizon.












I was very excited to see
The Mabee Farm, c 1800.







Our family lived about three three miles from this farm & attended events regularly.








Untamed Spirits & Wild Companions:
Animals in American Indian Art
represents Native Americans'
reverence of the animal world.





A hide & pigments were used
to record a battle between
Lakota & Crow Indians.









from the Blackfeet Tribe
in Montana.







These masks from Alaska's Central
Yup'ik are used in ceremonial
dances to honor the animals'
spirits & a request that
animals be plentiful in the
upcoming year.







The gallery of American art is eclectic.









Song of Victory by John Scholl
integrates German Folk Art
with American Victorian Design.









"Temperance Victory" is a
beautiful example of
papercutting  (scherenschnitt)
practiced by German-Americans
in Pennsylvania.







Winter Scene by "Grandma
Moses" is a representation
of farm life in the depth
of winter.








Indian Maiden Cigar Store
Figure by Thomas Brooks

Carved Indians were used to
advertise tobacco shops
in Europe & America
into the early 1900s.






Night Game -Yankee Stadium

The perfect painting for
Cooperstown, the home of











introduced the world to 
frontier life in America.












A View of Otsego Lake from
 Apple Hill by Samuel Morse,
 the inventor of the telegraph.










The Cooper Family's
heirlooms - A Memento 
Screen with remembrances
of a trip to Europe, a portrait
of James Fenimore Cooper's
father, William & a slant 
top desk.

Eric and I love visiting the Fenimore Art Museum.  We reminisce as we revisit the permanent collections and eagerly explore the ever-changing exhibits.

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