FENIMORE ART MUSEUM PRESENTS NEW VIRTUAL TOURS OF RENOWNED COLLECTIONS

Cooperstown, New York — Fenimore Art Museum presents four new virtual tours focusing on the museum’s renowned collections. Tours take place on Tuesdays, January 18 through March 8 from 2:00-2:30 p.m. and are conducted via Zoom. See the full schedule and tour descriptions at FenimoreArt.org.

Fenimore offers virtual tours free of charge, but we ask that you consider a donation ($10 suggested) in order for the Museum to continue offering quality virtual programming. Reserve a spot for one or all the tours at Eventbrite.com. Links to register can be found at FenimoreArt.org.

SCHEDULE AND DESCRIPTIONS:

VIRTUAL TOUR: COOPER, COLE, AND THE HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL

A virtual tour via Zoom of collections related to writer James Fenimore Cooper, artist Thomas Cole, and the Hudson River School. Narrated live.

January 18 and February 22 • 2:00-2:30pm

Writer James Fenimore Cooper and artist Thomas Cole were friends whose works inspired a love for the sublime American landscape. Join assistant curator Ann Cannon for an exploration of our 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.

VIRTUAL TOUR: HIGHLIGHTS OF AMERICAN FOLK ART

A virtual tour via Zoom of selections from Fenimore Art Museum’s extensive American folk art collection. Narrated live.

January 25 and February 15 • 2:00-2:30pm

Join us for a virtual 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.

VIRTUAL TOUR: THAW COLLECTION OF AMERICAN INDIAN ART

A virtual tour via Zoom of highlights from the Thaw Collection of American Indian Art. Narrated live.

February 1 and March 1 • 2:00-2:30pm

Fenimore Art Museum’s Thaw Collection of American Indian Art showcases incredible examples of Native American artistry, craftsmanship, and ingenuity from across North America. Basketry, masks, weapons, clothing, ceramics, weavings, and much more spanning dozens of cultures and hundreds of years is featured in our Thaw Gallery. Join assistant curator Julia Madore on a special virtual tour of this stunning and important collection, followed by a live Q&A session.

VIRTUAL TOUR: ELEGANT NEW YORK - HISTORICAL GARMENTS MADE IN NEW YORK

A virtual tour via Zoom of Fenimore’s exhibition Elegant New York. Narrated live.

February 8 and March 8 • 2:00-2:30pm

Elegant New York displays the taste and elegance of denizens and dressmakers of New York City and upstate through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a trend that has made the city a national and worldwide center of fashion.

New York City, home to many of the wealthiest families in nineteenth and early twentieth century America, had its own high-end dressmaking establishments that could compete with the internationally famous houses of couture. Even small cities and towns across the state supported dozens of small-time dressmakers, whose work often met a very high standard.

This virtual tour of the exhibition will be led by Cassidy Percoco, Collections Manager of Fenimore Art Museum and The Farmers' Museum. She will host a live Q&A session following the 20 minute tour.

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.