Fenimore Art Museum Offers Virtual Tours of Its Renowned Collections
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — This winter, Fenimore Art Museum presents three live, virtual tours focusing on the museum’s renowned collections. Each of the free tours will be offered on two separate dates. All take place on Tuesdays, January 14 through February 18 from 2:00-2:30 p.m. and are conducted via Zoom. To see the full schedule, tour descriptions, and to register, visit FenimoreArt.org. Virtual tours are free of charge, but we ask that you consider a donation in order for the museum to continue offering quality virtual programming.
VIRTUAL TOURS / SCHEDULE AND DESCRIPTIONS:
In the Spotlight – Women Artists at Fenimore Art Museum
January 14 and February 4 • 2:00pm (20 min.)
This 20-minute virtual tour led by Associate Director of Exhibitions Julia Madore will take a closer look at the artwork made by women artists in Fenimore Art Museum’s collection. Women’s contributions to the art world are numerous and many of those works of art are housed at Fenimore across the fine, folk, and Thaw Collection of American Indian Art. Many of the artists are little-known outside of the art world. Women like Karolina Danek, a Polish immigrant who created bejeweled portraits, or Ann Butler, who painted tinware made in her father’s workshop will have their often-overlooked stories highlighted alongside a broader overview of art by women at Fenimore. A live Q&A session will follow the tour.
Fenimore’s Masterworks
January 21 and February 11 • 2:00pm (30 min.)
Join Curator of American Art, Ann Cannon, on a virtual tour of the Fenimore’s American Masterworks Collection. The collection, comprised of 27 newly acquired artworks, highlights the Fenimore’s efforts to expand and broaden the scope of the its fine art collection to include major works created from the 1850s to about 1930. These masterworks allow Fenimore to tell the story of American art and culture as it evolved after the Civil War. The tour will cover work by artists including, but not limited to, Frederic Church, George Inness, Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, and Georgia O’Keeffe. A live Q&A session will follow the tour.
Cooper, Cole, and the Hudson River School
January 28 and February 18 • 2:00pm (30 min.)
Writer James Fenimore Cooper and artist Thomas Cole were friends whose works inspired a love for the sublime American landscape. Join Manager of Arts Education Kevin Gray for a live virtual tour exploring Fenimore Art Museum’s collection featuring memorabilia from the Cooper family, as well as a variety of paintings by Thomas Cole and other key members of the Hudson River School. The tour will be followed by a live Q&A session.
About Fenimore Art Museum
Fenimore Art Museum, located on the shores of Otsego Lake—James Fenimore Cooper’s “Glimmerglass”—in historic Cooperstown, New York, presents changing exhibitions each season. Past shows have featured artists such as Keith Haring, Ansel Adams, Banksy, M.C. Escher, and many others. The museum features a wide-ranging collection of American art including folk art; important American 18th- and 19th-century landscape, genre, and portrait paintings from artists including Albert Bierstadt, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Frederic Edwin Church, Childe Hassam, Martin Johnson Heade, Robert Henri, George Inness, Eastman Johnson, Joshua Johnson, Thomas Moran, Georgia O’Keeffe, Maurice Prendergast, John Singer Sargent, Max Weber, and James McNeill Whistler; 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.
