The Fenimore Art Museum is the showcase of the New York State Historical Association. In 1939 Stephen Carlton Clark offered the Association a new home in the village of Cooperstown. Clark, an avid collector, took an active interest in expanding the holdings of the Association and in 1944 donated Fenimore House, to be used as a headquarters and museum. The impressive neo-Georgian structure was built in the 1930's on the site of James Fenimore Cooper's early 19th century farmhouse on the shores of Otsego Cooper's Glimmerglass.
The first gallery we went into was a History of Fenimore Cooper Family.
This is a screen that the Cooper family, displayed pictures from their trip to Europe.
A statue and portrait of James Fenimore Cooper.
This picture The Last of the Mohican, 1858 done by Felix Octavius Curr Darley.
Darley did a series of illustrations for a multi-volume edition of Cooper's works published between 1839 and 1861,
The next gallery was the Cooper's library.
This is a bust of Thomas Jefferson.
This gallery had scenes of everyday life in Cooperstown.
The gallery nect was The Folk Art Gallery.
This is a painting by Grandma Moses.
A cigar store Indian.
The Girl in the Green Dress, 1845 attributed to Samuel Miller.
Unknown artist.
These rock sculptures were done by Henry DiSpirito (1898-1995.)
DiSpirito's method of directly carving on river rock was partly determined by his training in Italy, and was influenced by the modernist sculpture which he was exposed to when he studied under Davis.
This was one of the upstairs bedrooms and the stairway on the second floor.
Places in Passing by Susan Jones Kenyon.
The final gallery for the morning had an exhibit of The Wyeths: A Family Legacy. No photographs were allowed.
Wonderful exhibition!
We stopped to have lunch on the terrace over looking the Otsego Lake.
More tomorrow.
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