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National
Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
Open
seven days a
week the year round, with the exception of Thanksgiving, Christmas and
New Year's Day, the Hall of Fame is open from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. after
Labor Day until Memorial Day Weekend. Summer hours are from 9 a.m.
until 9 p.m. daily. Ticket prices are $14.50 for adults (13
and
over), $9 for seniors (65 and over) and for those holding current
memberships in the VFW, Disabled American Veterans, American Legion and
AMVets organizations, and $5 for juniors (ages 7-12). Members are
always admitted free of charge and there is no charge for children six
years of age or younger, active and retired card-carrying
military
personnel. For more information, visit our Web site at Baseballhall.org
or call
888-HALL-OF-FAME (888-425-5633) or 607-547-7200. Harmon Killebrew to Discuss Baseball Memories in Voices of the Game Series --Six-time AL home run king will be in Cooperstown August 31-- (COOPERSTOWN,
NY) – Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew will share memories from his
baseball career in a Voices of the Game event at 7 p.m. August 31 at
the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown. Elected
to the Hall of Fame in 1984, Killebrew is a 13-time All-Star and the
1969 American League Most Valuable Player. Killebrew led the American
League in home runs six times during his 22-year big league career with
the Senators, Twins and Royals, finishing with a total of 573 home runs
– a number that still ranks ninth on baseball’s all-time list. During
the program, Killebrew will discuss his baseball memories and
participate in a question and answer session with the audience at the
Hall of Fame’s Grandstand Theater. A ticket is required
for this event and costs $10 for adults and $5 for children under 12.
Members may reserve tickets immediately, and any remaining tickets will
be available to non-members on Monday, August 25, by calling the
Membership department at 607-547-0397. Members of the
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum receive free admission to the
Museum, as well as access to exclusive programs, such as the Voices of
the Game Series. Additionally, members receive a subscription to the
Hall of Fame's bi-monthly magazine, Memories and Dreams, the 2008 Hall
of Fame yearbook and a 10% discount and free shipping on retail
purchases. For information on becoming a member, please visit
baseballhall.org or call 607-547-0397. The National
Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is open seven days a week year round,
with the exception of Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day. From
Memorial Day through Labor Day, the Museum is open from 9 a.m. until 9
p.m. seven days a week. The Museum observes off-season hours of 9 a.m.
until 5 p.m. from the day after Labor Day until Memorial Day Weekend.
Ticket prices are $16.50 for adults (13 and over), $11 for seniors (65
and over) and for those holding current memberships in the VFW,
Disabled American Veterans, American Legion and AMVets organizations,
and $6 for juniors (ages 7-12). Members are always admitted free of
charge and there is no charge for children 6 years of age or
younger. For more information, visit our Web site at baseballhall.org or call 888-HALL-OF-FAME (888-425-5633) or 607-547-7200.
Three Elected to National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Board of Directors DuPuy, Niekro and Reinsdorf Join Board (COOPERSTOWN,
NY) At the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum’s
annual Board of Directors meeting on July 26, Bob DuPuy, Phil Niekro
and Jerry Reinsdorf were elected to the Board, bringing the total
number of directors to 18 for the non-profit educational
institution. “With this election of these three
individuals, we have added great enthusiasm, experience and passion for
the game and its history to the Board,” said Jane Forbes Clark,
Chairman of the Board of Directors. “From diverse backgrounds, Bob,
Phil and Jerry share a common love for the game and a deep appreciation
and respect for our role as an educational institution. Their vision
and dedication will strengthen our institution.” Bob DuPuy
is President and Chief Operating Officer of Major League Baseball, a
position he has held since March 2002. DuPuy is responsible for all
phases of baseball’s Central Offices, including licensing, sponsorship,
international, broadcasting, publishing, marketing, public relations,
government relations, baseball operations, legal affairs, finance,
baseball’s internet operations and the labor relations committee. Phil
Niekro was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1997,
following a 24-year career as a major league pitcher, spent mostly with
the Atlanta Braves. Named for his prowess with the knuckleball pitch,
“Knucksie” recorded 318 wins and 3,342 strikeouts, pitching for the
Milwaukee Braves (1964-’65), Atlanta Braves (1966-’83, 1987), New York
Yankees (1984-’85), Cleveland Indians (1986-’87) and Toronto Blue Jays
(1987). Jerry Reinsdorf is Chairman of the Board of
Directors of the Chicago White Sox. Since heading the limited
partnership that purchased the White Sox in January 1981, Reinsdorf has
been involved in Major League Baseball initiatives at an industry-wide
level, as a member of the Executive Council, a past chairman of
baseball’s Ownership Committee and as a former member of the Player
Relations Committee. Reinsdorf also serves as Chairman of the Chicago
Bulls. In addition to Board Chairman Jane Forbes Clark,
whose grandfather, Stephen C. Clark, founded the Hall of Fame, the Hall
of Fame’s Board of Directors includes: Vice Chairman Joe Morgan, along
with four other Hall of Fame players including Robin Roberts, Brooks
Robinson, Frank Robinson and Tom Seaver. Major League Baseball
Commissioner Allan H. “Bud” Selig, major league owners Bill DeWitt Jr.
(St. Louis), David Glass (Kansas City) and George Steinbrenner, former
American League President and Hall of Fame executive Lee MacPhail,
former MLB President Paul Beeston, minor league owner Bill Gladstone
(Tri-City Valley Cats), Kevin Moore, president of the Clark Estates,
Inc. and former Hall of Fame Chairman Ed Stack round out the list of
Directors. Located on Main Street in the heart of
picturesque Cooperstown, New York, the National Baseball Hall of Fame
and Museum is one of the country's major tourist destinations and is
surely the best-known sports shrine in the world. Opening its
doors for the first time on June 12, 1939, the Hall of Fame has stood
as the definitive repository of the game's treasures and as a symbol of
the most profound individual honor bestowed on an athlete. It is
every fan's "Field of Dreams" with its stories, legends and magic to be
passed on from generation to generation. Fan Balloting for Ford C. Frick Award Begins Sept. 1, Continues Through Sept. 30 --Top Three Fan Vote-Getters Will Be Included On Final Ballot For 2009 Award-- (COOPERSTOWN,
NY): Online voting for fan selections for the 2009 Ford C. Frick Award
ballot begins Monday, Sept. 1, as fan selections will determine three
of the 10 names on the final ballot, to be announced on Oct. 6, for
the fifth straight year. Fans can cast votes once per day through
September for up to three baseball broadcasters, exclusively at baseballhall.org. Fans
will have the opportunity to select three of the 210 broadcasters
eligible for consideration for the 2009 Ford C. Frick Award. Bios of
each candidate appear at baseballhall.org. Results will be announced when voting concludes, though updates will not be provided during the voting. The
final ballot will be comprised of the three fan selections, along with
seven other candidates, determined by a Hall of Fame staff research
team. The Frick ballot will then be considered by the Frick electorate,
which includes all living Award-winners and five historians appointed
by the Hall of Fame. Presented annually since 1978 for
excellence in baseball broadcasting, the Ford C. Frick Award is given
to an active or retired broadcaster with a minimum of 10 years of
continuous major league broadcast service with a ball club, network, or
a combination of the two. The 2009 Ford C. Frick Award winner will be
announced Dec. 9 at baseball's winter meetings in Las Vegas. The
voting electorate consists of 20 members, featuring 2008 Ford C. Frick
Award winner Dave Niehaus and the other 14 living Frick Award winners:
Marty Brennaman, Jerry Coleman, Gene Elston, Joe Garagiola, Ernie
Harwell, Jaime Jarrin, Milo Hamilton, Harry Kalas, Denny Matthews, Felo
Ramirez, Vin Scully, Lon Simmons, Bob Uecker and Bob Wolff. Five
historians and veteran media members are also part of the electorate,
including Bob Costas (NBC), Barry Horn (Dallas Morning News), Stan
Isaacs (formerly of New York Newsday), Ted Patterson (historian) and
Curt Smith (historian). More than 470,000 votes were cast
during the first five years of online balloting. 2004 Frick Award
winner Lon Simmons received the most fan votes in 2003; Niehaus, the
long-time Seattle Mariners broadcaster, received the largest number of
fan votes in 2004; and former Oakland A’s broadcaster Bill King
received the largest number of fan votes in 2005 and 2006. Former Reds
broadcaster Joe Nuxhall received the most fan votes last year with
82,304. Voters are asked to base their selections on the
following criteria: longevity; continuity with a club; honors,
including national assignments such as the World Series and All-Star
Games; and popularity with fans. Each voter will cast ballots and the
broadcaster with the strongest support will be named as that year’s
award-winner, and be honored the following summer at the annual
Induction Ceremony in Cooperstown. The annual award is named in
memory of Hall of Famer Ford C. Frick, renowned sportswriter, radio
broadcaster, National League president and Baseball commissioner. The
complete list of recipients includes: 1978 Mel Allen 1988 Lindsey Nelson 1999 Arch McDonald Red Barber 1989 Harry Caray 2000 Marty Brennaman 1979 Bob Elson 1990 By Saam 2001 Felo Ramirez 1980 Russ Hodges 1991 Joe Garagiola 2002 Harry Kalas 1981 Ernie Harwell 1992 Milo Hamilton 2003 Bob Uecker 1982 Vin Scully 1993 Chuck Thompson 2004 Lon Simmons 1983 Jack Brickhouse 1994 Bob Murphy 2005 Jerry Coleman 1984 Curt Gowdy 1995 Bob Wolff 2006 Gene Elston 1985 Buck Canel 1996 Herb Carneal 2007 Denny Matthews 1986 Bob Prince 1997 Jimmy Dudley 2008 Dave Niehaus 1987 Jack Buck 1998 Jaime Jarrin The
Museum’s collections contain more than 35,000 three-dimensional
artifacts representing all facets of the game, from its inception in
the mid-19th century to present. Three-dimensional artifacts include
bats, baseballs, uniforms, player equipment, ballpark artifacts,
awards, artwork, textiles, tickets and collectibles. In addition, the
Institution's archives contain in excess of 130,000 Baseball cards and
2.6 million Library items, including photographs, books, magazines,
newspaper clippings, films, video and audio tapes. Located on
Main Street in the heart of picturesque Cooperstown, New York, the
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is one of the country's major
tourist destinations and is surely the best-known sports shrine in the
world. Opening its doors for the first time on June 12, 1939, the Hall
of Fame has stood as the definitive repository of the game's treasures
and as a symbol of the most profound individual honor bestowed on an
athlete. It is every fan's "Field of Dreams," with its stories, legends
and magic to be passed on from generation to generation. The
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is an independent
not-for-profit educational institution, dedicated to fostering an
appreciation of the historical development of baseball and its impact
on our culture by collecting, preserving, exhibiting and interpreting
its collections for a global audience as well as honoring those who
have made outstanding contributions to our National Pastime. Record Number of Hall of Famers in Cooperstown for Class of 2008 Induction at Hall of Fame --Gossage, Williams Deliver Emotional Acceptance Speeches-- (COOPERSTOWN,
N.Y): A record 56 Hall of Famers were on stage at the Clark Sports
Center on Sunday to welcome the Class of 2008 to the National Baseball
Hall of Fame and Museum – the most Hall of Famers ever to gather in one
location. Goose Gossage and Dick Williams thanked friends
and family during three-plus hour ceremony, which also featured the
posthumous inductions of Barney Dreyfuss, Bowie Kuhn, Walter O’Malley
and Billy Southworth. Approximately 14,000 fans witnessed the event under sunny skies. Other highlights from the afternoon included: **Dozens
of famous faces were spotted in the crowd, including former Cy Young
Award winner David Cone; New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman
and former Yankees GM Gene Michael; former big league players Joe Rudi,
Dave Campbell and Jim Beattie; and longtime big league general manager
Roland Hemond. **Ernie Banks stole the show early on in
the Ceremony when Mr. Cub asked Commissioner Bud Selig if he could be
placed on the Cubs’ active roster on Aug. 31 – which would make him
eligible for the postseason. The 77-year-old Banks, who never made it
to the World Series during his playing days, is rooting for the Cubs to
end their 100-year Fall Classic drought this year.
**During the
introduction of returning Hall of Famers, thunderous ovations came for
Henry Aaron and Yogi Berra. The Ceremony marked the first time in 35
years that Aaron was not the all-time home run king when the Induction
Ceremony took place. Berra, meanwhile, received a warm greeting from
many of the Yankee fans in attendance to see Goose Gossage. The
National Baseball Hall of Fame’s 2009 Induction Weekend will take place
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The
Farmers' Museum
About
The
Farmers’ Museum
As
one of
the oldest
rural life museums in the country, The Farmers’ Museum in Cooperstown,
New York, provides visitors with a unique opportunity to experience
19th-century rural and village life first-hand through authentic
demonstrations and interpretative exhibits. The museum, founded in
1943, comprises a Colonial Revival stone barn listed on the National
Register for Historic Places, a recreated historic village circa 1845,
a late- nineteenth-century Country Fair featuring The Empire State
Carousel, and a working farmstead. Through its 19th-century village and
farm, the museum preserves important examples of upstate New York
architecture, early agricultural tools and equipment, and heritage
livestock. The Farmers’ Museum’s outstanding collection of more than
23,000 items encompasses significant historic objects ranging from
butter molds to carriages, and hand planes to plows. The museum also
presents a broad range of interactive educational programs for school
groups, families, and adults that explore and preserve the rich
agricultural history of the region.
The
Farmers’ Museum is
located on 5775 State Hwy. 80, Lake Road, in Cooperstown, NY. Museum
admission is $11 for adults, $9.50 for visitors age 65 and over, and $5
for children age 7 to 12; children 6 and under and members are admitted
free. From April 1 through May 14 and October 9 through October 31,
admission prices are reduced to $9 for adults, $8 for seniors age 65
and over, and $4 for children age 7 to 12. Reduced price combination
admission tickets that include the Fenimore Art Museum and The National
Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum are also available. For museum hours
or general information, please call 1-888-547-1450 or visit
www.farmersmuseum.org.
The Farmers’ Museum Opens for the
2008 Season
COOPERSTOWN,
N.Y., March 26, 2008—The Farmers’ Museum opened for the 2008 season on
April 1 for self-guided visits of selected buildings in the historic
village and barnyard.
Summer hours began on May 13 and continue through Columbus Day, October
13. During the summer season, the museum is open seven days a week from
10 am to 5 pm.
Back by popular demand will be the major
exhibition Ice Cream: Our Cool Obsession in the museum’s Main
Barn—here, visitors will be taken on a delectable journey through the
rich history of America’s favorite treat, Ice Cream. Through historical
artifacts, contemporary and historical photography, and a children’s
interactive area, viewers will learn about the world’s first ice
creams—primitive water ices made with juices and wines circa 336-323
BCE—and their development into the ice cream flavors we enjoy today.
The exhibition also features a retro ice cream parlor, where visitors
can enjoy their favorite ice cream novelties.
Also on
view in the Museum’s Main Barn exhibition space beginning May 13 will
be Working the Land: Early Agricultural Tools and Machinery located on
the second floor, which looks at the richness of New York State’s
farming tradition through an authentic collection of early agricultural
implements and equipment. The Children’s Barnyard and Country Fair will
also open to the public on May 13.
The Farmers’ Museum’s
2008 season will be in full swing beginning Memorial Day Weekend,
Saturday, May 24 from 10 am to 5 pm and on Sunday, May 25 from 10 am to
3 pm. The event brings a plethora of wool-related demonstrations
together with the popular Heritage Plant Sale, the premiere of the
major new exhibition, Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses: The Synagogue to
the Carousel at the Fenimore Art Museum, the grand opening of the newly
renovated 1818 Jonas More House in the museum’s historic village, the
unveiling of a new portrait panel of jazz legend Louis Armstrong for
the beloved Empire State Carousel, and much more!
The
museum ends its 2008 season with its autumn schedule: October 14 -
October 31, the museum is open Tuesday - Sunday from 10 am - 4 pm. The
museum is closed to the general public in November and December except
for special programming and events. Things That Go Bump in
the
Night Halloween Tours will be offered on October 17 & 18 and
October 24 & 25. Thanksgiving at The Farmers’ Museum will be
held
on November 28 and 29, the Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving, and
central New York’s brightest holiday tradition, Candlelight Evening,
will be held December 21.
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Fenimore
Art Museum
One
of
the nation's premier art institutions, the Fenimore Art Museum is home
to an exceptionally rich collection of American folk art and American
Indian art as well as important holdings in American decorative arts,
photography, and twentieth-century art. Founded in 1945 in Cooperstown,
New York, the museum is part of the New York State Historical
Association (NYSHA), founded in 1899. The museum's renowned Eugene and
Clare Thaw Collection, housed in the American Indian Wing, comprises
more than 800 significant art objects, representing a broad scope of
North American cultures. The collections of folk and American art
include seminal works by Grandma Moses, Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Cole,
William Sidney Mount, Benjamin West, and John H. I. Browere. The museum
offers a range of interactive educational programming for children,
families, and adults, including lectures and workshops for museum
visitors and distance learning instruction for classrooms nationwide.
The museum further explores and examines our cultural history by
organizing and hosting nationally touring art and history exhibitions,
including Grandma Moses: Grandmother to the Nation;
Treasures from Olana: The Landscapes of Frederic Edwin Church;
A Deaf Artist in Early America: The Worlds
of
John Brewster, Jr.; Winslow Homer: Masterworks from
the Adirondacks; and Ralph
Fasanella's America.
The
Fenimore Art Museum is located on 5798 State Hwy. 80, Lake Road, in
Cooperstown. The museum's Fenimore Café, overlooking beautiful Otsego
Lake, features wonderful views and a tranquil setting amid the terraced
gardens. The Museum Shop offers fine jewelry, art reproductions, and a
wide selection of publications on folk art, history, and Native
American art. Museum admission is $11 for adults, $9.50 for visitors
age 65 and over, and $5 for children age 7 to 12; children 6 and under
and NYSHA members are admitted free. Reduced price combination
admission tickets that include The Farmers' Museum and The National
Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum are also available. The museum is open
from April 1 through December 30. For museum hours or general
information, please call 1-888-547-1450 or visit www.fenimoreartmuseum.org.
Fenimore
Art Museum’s 2008 Exhibition Season will Surprise, Inspire and Inform
Cooperstown,
N.Y., March 25, 2008—Delve into the Arts & Crafts movement,
explore
Otsego County through the lenses of Richard Walker and Smith and
Telfer, and discover the link between Jewish visual culture and the
American carousel industry in the 2008 exhibition season at the
Fenimore Art Museum.
From
April 1 through May 12, the
museum will be open Tuesday through Sunday, from 10 am to 4 pm, closed
on Mondays. Summer hours begin on May 13 and continue through
Columbus Day, October 13. During the summer season, the museum is open
seven days a week from 10 am to 5 pm.
Exhibition
highlights include:
Gustav
Stickley: The Enlightened Home
April
1- August 10, 2008
The
Fenimore Art Museum presents an exhibition on the furniture of
celebrated turn-of-the-century designer and manufacturer and leading
spokesman for the American Arts and Crafts movement, Gustav Stickley.
Gustav Stickley: The Enlightened Home features 40 pieces of original
Stickley furniture and decorative objects drawn from The Stickley
Museum, Fayetteville, N.Y.; Dalton’s American Decorative Arts,
Syracuse, N.Y.; The Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms, Morris Plains,
N.J. and private collections.
The
exhibition explores
Stickley’s well-designed and carefully crafted furniture within the
context of his philosophical contribution to the American Arts and
Crafts movement. Inspired by the ideas of British Arts and Crafts
philosopher William Morris, who advocated a return to fine
craftsmanship, honest design, and dignity of labor, Stickley generated
his own “Craftsman” philosophy, which catapulted him to the forefront
of the American Arts and Crafts movement. Rejecting the superfluous
ornamentation characteristic of Victorian homes, Stickley championed
functional homes whose beauty derived from simplicity and harmony.
Gustav
Stickley: The Enlightened Home, which includes two period rooms, a 1904
living room and a 1907 dining room, highlights several pieces from
Stickley’s rich body of work and illustrates how Stickley redefined the
American home with his Arts and Crafts-inspired items. Stickley’s
philosophy of building in harmony with the environment by using natural
materials was fully realized in his home, Craftsman Farms in Morris
Plains, New Jersey. His functional approach to design was a departure
from the Victorian era’s dark and overly ornamental interiors.
Stickley’s unornamented, clean-lined furniture was exemplified
throughout the interior and exterior design of his home. While
individual pieces of furniture used construction as decoration,
embodied simplicity, and prioritized utility, these tenets were also
implemented on a much grander scale within the home.
Bits of
Home
April 1
– December 31
Visitors
to the Fenimore Art Museum have long enjoyed the extraordinary
collections of fine art, folk art, and American Indian art held by the
New York State Historical Association (NYSHA). Less well known are the
thousands of historical artifacts in the collections storage areas.
Bits of Home is a new exhibition that is intended to acquaint visitors
with these historical collections by featuring a selection of more than
30 artifacts from NYSHA and The Farmers’ Museum’s extensive collections
of domestic life in nineteenth-century New York. As a theme-based
gallery, this exhibition allows the visitor to explore the function and
design of everything from household textiles to toys and games in a
setting evocative of the environment for which they were originally
made.
Gilded
Lions and Jeweled Horses: The Synagogue to the Carousel
May 24
– September 1, 2008G
From
gilded lions to high-stepping horses, the sacred to the secular, and
the Old World to the New, this exhibition traces, for the first time,
the journey of Jewish woodcarvers and paper cut artists from Eastern
and Central Europe to America. Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses: The
Synagogue to the Carousel, organized by the American Folk Art Museum,
New York, highlights the unsung role these artisans played in
establishing a distinct Jewish culture in communities throughout the
United States and provides a surprising revelation of the link that was
forged between the immigrant Jewish woodcarvers and the American
carousel industry. The exhibition brings together extraordinary
examples of majestic synagogue carvings—gilded lions, Decalogues,
crowns and eagles as well as intricate paper cuts—juxtaposed against
dynamic carousel figures created for Brooklyn’s great amusement park,
Coney Island, and others. Featuring 100 rarely exhibited artworks,
drawn from private and public collections in the United States, Eastern
Europe and Israel, the exhibition tells the story of this fascinating
aspect of Jewish and American visual culture.
Organized
by Guest Curator Murray Zimiles and coordinated by the American Folk
Art Museum’s Senior Curator Stacy C. Hollander, the exhibition is
accompanied by a fully illustrated 192-page book, Gilded Lions And
Jeweled Horses: The Synagogue to the Carousel, co-published by the
American Folk Art Museum with Brandeis University Press, an imprint of
the University Press of New England. In addition, please visit the
exhibition website at gildedlions.org, which was conceptualized by
George Blumenthal and funded by The Center for Online Judaic Studies,
Inc.
Major
support for the exhibition and catalogue was
provided by Michael Steinhardt; Kekst and Company; the David Berg
Foundation; the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation; the Smart Family
Foundation; the Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation, Allentown,
Pennsylvania; the Betty and John A. Levin Fund; the Robert Lehman
Foundation; the Nathan Cummings Foundation; the National Endowment for
the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts; and the New York
Council for the Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment
for the Humanities.
Through
the Eyes of Others: African Americans and Identity in American Art
August
23– December 31, 2008
The
images of African Americans at the Fenimore Art Museum offer insights
into the ways that Americans in the past viewed one another; how
artistic representations of black people created and reinforced popular
attitudes; and how these attitudes continue to affect us today. This is
not simply a story for African Americans, but for all of us, because
the issues represented in this exhibition— identity, self-portrayal,
survival, resistance, and stereotyping—are issues that relate to each
individual who has ever wondered about their own identity and to every
group that has entered this country.
This
exhibition
is curated by Gretchen Sullivan Sorin, Director of The Cooperstown
Graduate Program and has been made possible by a generous grant from
the Institute of Museum and Library Services, a federal
agency.
Earl
Cunningham’s America
September
27 – December 31, 2008
Earl
Cunningham’s America examines the paintings of Earl Cunningham
(1893-1977), one of the premier folk artists of the 20th century. This
retrospective presents the artist as a folk modernist who used the flat
space and brilliant color typical of Matisse and Van Gogh to create
sophisticated compositions with complex meanings about the nature of
American life. The exhibition features 50 of more than 400 canvasses
Cunningham painted during his life. His imaginary landscapes are
marvels of the unexpected and the unlikely. Pink flamingoes dot the
shoreline of the Maine coast, New England cottages sit at the edge of
Florida swamps and Seminole Indians wear feathered headdresses.
Earl
Cunningham’s America is organized by the Smithsonian American Art
Museum. The exhibition will travel to the American Folk Art Museum in
New York City (March 4, 2008 – August 31, 2008) and the Mennello Museum
of American Art in Orlando, Fla. (March 6, 2009 – August 2, 2009).
The
exhibition is made possible by generous support from Darden Restaurants
Foundation; the Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation; the Arts and
Cultural Affairs Office of Orange County, Florida; CNL Financial Group;
Bright House Networks; Lockheed Martin; and Friends of The Mennello
Museum of American Art. The exhibition’s tour is supported in part by
the C. F. Foundation, Atlanta.
Remembering
Cooperstown: Photographs by Smith and Telfer
April 1
– May 11 & September 20 – December 31
This
exhibition, culled from the museum’s permanent collection, features
familiar and rarely seen photographs drawn from the Smith and Telfer
Photographic Collection. The spring and fall exhibits will each feature
a different selection of photography showcasing the breadth of the
collection. Cooperstown photographers ‘Wash” Smith and “Putt” Telfer
compiled an exceptional record of Cooperstown’s people and places for
almost a century. The Smith and Telfer Photograph Collection, donated
to the museum in 1951, numbers nearly 55,000 glass plate negatives.
Smith and Telfer’s legacy is rich, and includes not only standard
studio work, but also a vast number of images of people and activities
recorded outside of the studio. Their familiarity with Cooperstown’s
people and places gave their images a natural, unposed quality, which
captures the spirit and sensibility of small town life. Through their
lens Cooperstown is remembered as the quintessential American rural
village.
About
the Fenimore Art Museum
One
of the nation’s
premier art institutions, the Fenimore Art Museum is home to an
exceptionally rich collection of American folk art and American Indian
art as well as important holdings in American decorative arts,
photography, and twentieth-century art. Founded in 1945 in Cooperstown,
New York, the museum is part of the New York State Historical
Association (NYSHA), founded in 1899. The museum’s renowned Eugene and
Clare Thaw Collection, housed in the American Indian Wing, is a
masterpiece collection of more than 800 art objects, representing a
broad scope of North American cultures. The collections of folk and
American art include seminal works by Grandma Moses, Gilbert Stuart,
Thomas Cole, William Sidney Mount, Benjamin West, and John H. I.
Browere. The museum offers a range of interactive educational
programming for children, families, and adults, including lectures and
workshops for museum visitors and distance learning instruction for
classrooms nationwide.
The
Fenimore Art Museum is
located on 5798 State Hwy. 80, Lake Road, in Cooperstown. The museum’s
Fenimore Café, overlooking beautiful Otsego Lake, features wonderful
views and a tranquil setting amid the terraced gardens. The Museum Shop
offers fine jewelry, art reproductions, and a wide selection of
publications on folk art, history, and Native American art. Museum
admission is $11 for adults, $9.50 for visitors age 65 and over, and $5
for children age 7 to 12; children 6 and under and NYSHA members are
admitted free. Reduced price combination admission tickets that include
The Farmers’ Museum and The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
are also available. The museum is open from April 1 through December
31; closed January through March, except for special events and school
groups. For museum hours or general information, please call
1-888-547-1450 or visit www.fenimoreartmuseum.org.
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