The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Mass., is devoted to the art of picture books, the first such museum in the United States. It was founded by Carle and his wife …
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St. Johnsbury Athenaeum
In 1871, Horace Fairbanks presented the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum to the town of St. Johnsbury, Vt. Two years later, he added an Art Gallery to the main building. This is a beautiful French Second Empire …
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The Shelburne Museum, Part 3
This is our third and last post on the Shelburne Museum (see Part 1 and Part 2). The parents of the Museum’s founder were collectors of French Impressionist masterpieces. It is amusing to think how …
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The Shelburne Museum, Part 2
Continuing on with our tour of the crazy-fabulous Shelburne Museum (see here for Part 1), we came up the Pet Friendly The Art of Stephen Huneck exhibit. As we walked in I thought, “something about …
The Shelburne Museum, Part 1
The Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vt., almost defies description. It is certainly not what you’d expect in the traditional sense of a “museum.” Electra Havemeyer Webb (1888-1960) was a pioneering collector of American folk art. …
Dog Chapel, Dog Mountain, and the Stephen Huneck Gallery
Stephen Huneck was a self-taught American artist known for wood carving, furniture making, painting, and writing children’s books. Over his lifetime, he wrote 10 books inspired by his black Lab, Sally, all illustrated with his …
Salem Art Works
Salem Art Works (S.A.W.) in upstate Salem, N.Y., was founded by artist Anthony Cafritz in 2005 not only as an outdoor sculpture park, but also as an “art farm” — a space where creativity of …
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A Few Sites along the Mid-New York State Hudson River
While in Vermont we saw an exhibition of famed American folk-artist “Grandma Moses” at the Bennington Museum. Later, we stopped in at the gallery of her great-grandson, Will Moses. His Mt. Nebo Gallery and studio …
The Hyde Collection
The three Pruyn sisters (Charlotte, Nell, and Mary) lived in three separate homes all in a row near the Hudson River in Glens Falls, N.Y. The comfortable yet stylish houses were built by their father …
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA)
In spite of my struggles with very modern art, we found ourselves at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) on a very rainy day, which made popping into the outer buildings and exhibits …