The Cornish Colony Museum opens its summer 2008 exhibit on Memorial Day weekend. Alma Gilbert is grateful that The Hood Museum was able to loan its Parrish painting Hunt Farm for this summer's show. This is a wonderful opportunity for Parrish fans to see one of the most esteemed of the Brown & Bigelow landscape paintings which depicts a still-existing local farm in Windsor, Vermont
The collection gathered from
other museums, collectors and institutions for display in Windsor,
Vermont represents a very ambitious selection of art works, not only by
our own Cornish Colony artists, but also by famous landscape painters
of the great Luminist and Hudson River schools before them.
We have not stopped there. This exhibition also encompasses
modern artists from Ansel Adams, K.Y. Craft, Mort Kunstler, Gary Milek,
David Putnam to Andrew Wyeth. We sought works whose artistry
speaks to us today on the theme we’re exploring:
landscapes and seascapes that also tell us a little about the history
of our country and depict its magnificent beauty.
The exhibition runs through October 26, 2008
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The Cornish Colony Museum received the “2007 Yankee Magazine Editors’ Choice” award in the May-June Special Travel issue of that magazine, as a museum site which the editors feel that their nearly two-million readers should not miss seeing. The museum and its staff is proud and grateful for this award, and they anticipate that their future exhibitions will meet or exceed the editors' expectations.
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