Now Showing at the Arkell
Please join us at the Museum for these current exhibitions.
Arkell’s Inspiration:
The Marketing of Beech-Nut and Art for the People
Permanent Exhibition
Bartlett Arkell’s collection of late 19th and early 20th century American paintings and the use of his collection to market Beech-Nut products is the focus of this exhibition. The exhibition will be on display in Arkell’s original gallery and in new exhibition spaces. Arkell’s collection of works by Winslow Homer, American Impressionists, and members of The Eight will be reinstalled in the restored original gallery.
Bartlett Arkell, founder of the Canajoharie Library Art Gallery and the first President of Beech-Nut Packing Company, encouraged his marketing staff to use his collection in their print ads. The result of this borrowing of images from oil paintings created by artists such as Edward Gay and J.G. Brown, was a series of ad campaigns that brought “art to the masses” and linked the virtues found in the paintings with Beech-Nut gum and food products. Museum visitors will have an opportunity to use images from the collection to create their own Beech-Nut advertisement to take home or mail as a postcard.
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Wyeth Family Paintings from the Farnsworth Art Museum
On Display
June 27, 2008 to September 21, 2008
N.C. Wyeth, Portrait of a Young Artist,
c. 1930, Farnsworth Art Museum Collection
Watercolors and oil paintings by three generations of America’s most famous family of artists — Jamie, Andrew, and N.C. Wyeth — will be on display through the summer. This collection of paintings comes from the Farnsworth Art Museum in Maine.
Famous and Fabulous Portraits
from George Washington to the Golden Girl
On Display
January 20, 2008 to July 20, 2008
George de Forest Brush, Golden Girl, 1925
This fascinating exhibition of portraits by some of America’s best known artists from the 18th through the early 20th century is selected from the Arkell Museum’s permanent collection. The subject of these paintings range from America’s first president painted by Gilbert Stuart to an introspective portrait by Thomas Eakins and a beautiful woman painted by John Singer Sargent.
Gilbert Stuart,
Portrait of George Washington, c. 1820
