Visiting the Fenimore Museum in Cooperstown, New York

The Fenimore Art Museum
has wonderful collections.

Len Tantillo paintings fill

one of the galleries.

Len Tantillo, an Upstate New York native, is known for historically themed paintings base on extensive research.

Everyday details of life in

bustling Syracuse are on

display in Washington 

Street, 1933.

Tantillo's adept use of light

 is demonstrated in Horizon

of the Last Sailor.

The Victorine, a Hudson

River Sloop, is beautifully

detailed, as it sails toward

the horizon.

I was very excited to see

The Mabee Farm, c 1800.

Our family lived about three three miles from this farm & attended events regularly.

Untamed Spirits & Wild Companions:

Animals in American Indian Art

represents Native Americans'

reverence of the animal world.

A hide & pigments were used
to record a battle between
Lakota & Crow Indians.

This Buffalo Headdress is

from the Blackfeet Tribe

in Montana.

These masks from Alaska's Central
Yup'ik are used in ceremonial
dances to honor the animals'
spirits & a request that
animals be plentiful in the
upcoming year.

The gallery of American art is eclectic.

Song of Victory by John Scholl

integrates German Folk Art

with American Victorian Design.

"Temperance Victory" is a
beautiful example of
papercutting  (scherenschnitt)
practiced by German-Americans
in Pennsylvania.

Winter Scene by "Grandma

Moses" is a representation

of farm life in the depth

of winter.

Indian Maiden Cigar Store
Figure by Thomas Brooks

Carved Indians were used to
advertise tobacco shops
in Europe & America
into the early 1900s.

Night Game -Yankee Stadium

by Ralph Fasanella

The perfect painting for

Cooperstown, the home of

the Baseball Hall of Fame

James Fenimore Cooper, the

first American novelist who 

introduced the world to 

frontier life in America.

A View of Otsego Lake from

 Apple Hill by Samuel Morse,

 the inventor of the telegraph.

The Cooper Family's

heirlooms - A Memento 

Screen with remembrances

of a trip to Europe, a portrait

of James Fenimore Cooper's

father, William & a slant 

top desk.

Eric and I love visiting the Fenimore Art Museum.  We reminisce as we revisit the permanent collections and eagerly explore the ever-changing exhibits.