The Collector: Travels and collections

Neue Galerie

The Neue Galerie is a small gallery, which along NYC’s museum mile is still pretty impressive. In addition to the collections of Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky.
The most amazing part of the collection is one of the most recognizable of Klimt’s works, ‘Adele Bloch-Bauer 1’ – recently returned from the Bloch-Baue family from the Austrian government after being stolen by the Nazi’s, and being given to the Neue Galerie for display.

Permanent Collection

Cornish Colony Museum

Current Exhibit:

Illustrating the Imagination: Celebrating Children’s Illustrators From the Cornish Colony and Today — through March 28th

The Cornish Colony was a community of artists and creative individuals founded in 1885 by a lawyer from New York named Charles Cotesworth Beaman. He soon convinced his friend Augustus Saint-Gaudens, one of the premier sculptors of the day, to rent a second home in Cornish, New Hampshire. After Saint-Gaudens made Cornish his summer residence, many of his friends and colleagues followed him to Cornish, and informally created the Cornish Colony. Despite its name, the Colony quickly overflowed the boundaries of Cornish and went on to also include the towns of Windsor, Vermont and Plainfield, New Hampshire.

A wide variety of individuals, from artists to poets to politicians, called Cornish home for at least part of the year, one of the more well known and well represented in the museum is Maxfield Parrish,

New Britain Museum of American Art.
has a great exhibit showing the wide variety of Shaker innovation.

Exhibit Review

Made even more interesting for us because the exhibit arranger is a friend of our from the world of Shaker Studies – Steven Miller.

More coming when we go to the exhibit in March

Clocks encased in silver- or gold-colored metal, likely designed to sit on the counters of pharmacies.

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