Virtual Zoom Tour: Highlights of American Folk Art
A virtual tour via Zoom of Fenimore Art Museum’s extensive American folk art collection.
January 24, February 7, & March 28 • 2:00pm (30 min.)
Join us for a virtual Zoom tour, with live narration, of Fenimore Art Museum’s collection of American folk art, featuring some of the most important names in folk art such as Anna Mary Robertson (“Grandma” Moses), Edward Hicks, Ralph Fasanella, and more. The tour includes a look at 19th century portraits, carvings, traditional crafts, and much more.
The 20-minute virtual tour will be followed by a live Q&A session with Kevin Gray, Manager of Arts Education.
View the full description and reserve your spot here.
About Fenimore Art Museum
Fenimore Art Museum, located on the shores of Otsego Lake—James Fenimore Cooper’s “Glimmerglass”—in historic Cooperstown, New York, features a wide-ranging collection of American art including folk art; important American 18th- and 19th-century landscape, genre, and portrait paintings; more than 125,000 historic photographs representing the technical developments made in photography and providing extensive visual documentation of the region’s unique history; and the renowned Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art comprised of nearly 900 art objects representative of a broad geographic range of North American Indian cultures, from the Northwest Coast, Eastern Woodlands, Plains, Southwest, Great Lakes, and Prairie regions. Visit FenimoreArt.org.
