Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
May 21, 2022– January 8, 2023

This summer Aspinwall by John Kane travelled to Heinz History Center to be part of their exhibition Pittsburgh’s John Kane: The Life & Art of an American Workman. Explore the gripping story of a Pittsburgh immigrant who endured poverty, tragedy, and other adversities to become one of the world’s most revered self-taught artists.

Grounded in new scholarship from Louise Lippincott and Maxwell King, authors of the new book “American Workman: The Life and Art of John Kane,” the History Center exhibition features 37 original works of art and dozens of artifacts that showcase the world of John Kane – a turn-of-the-century Scottish immigrant who achieved breakthrough success as a painter after toiling for more than 40 years as a laborer in industrial-age Pittsburgh.

John Kane
Aspinwall, ca.1929
Oil on canvas
Gift of Bartlett Arkell 1931

Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont
June 25 – October 16, 2022

This summer Still Life With Fruit by Luigi Lucioni travelled to the Shelburne Museum to be part of their exhibition Luigi Lucioni: Modern Light.

The exhibition Luigi Lucioni: Modern Light, examines the career, influences, and techniques of American artist Luigi Lucioni. A prolific painter and printmaker, Lucioni is known today for his landscape paintings, still-life works, portraiture, and etchings. Modern Light will be the first comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s work at a major public museum, as well as Shelburne Museum’s first monographic exhibition of Lucioni’s art since 1968.

Lucioni, Luigi (1900-1988)
Still Life with Fruit, 1934
Oil on canvas
Gift of Arkell, 1936

Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York
May 28 – September 5, 2022

This summer Venetian Lace Makers by Robert Blum travelled to Fenimore Art Museum to be part of the exhibition Unmasking Venice: American Artists and the City of Water

Unmasking Venice: American Artists and the City of Water features paintings, etchings and 3-dimensional objects that explore the two Venetian worlds depicted by American artists during the late 19th, early 20th and 21st centuries. The “picturesque” demonstrates the attraction to Venice felt by American tourists, while the “realistic” depicts the grittier realism of an everyday Venetian’s life. The exhibition includes work by a diverse group of artists, including Jane Peterson and Fred Wilson, and draws some interesting Venetian connections to the Thaw Collection of American Indian Art through the glass industry.

Robert Blum (1857-1903)
Venetian Lace Makers, 1885
Oil on canvas
Gift of Bartlett Arkell, 1936

Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine

September 25 – November 29, 2020

This fall Watching The Breakers - a High Sea by Winslow Homer travelled to The Portland Museum of Art to be part of their exhibition Mythmakers: The Art of Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington. The exhibition at the Portland Museum of art was the second of three legs of this travelling exhibition, and the only one in which the Arkell Museum had a painting.

This exhibition began in Denver, Colorado at the Denver Museum of Art in an exhibition entitled Natural Forces

Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington on view (and subsequently on hold due to the pandemic) from June 26, 2020–September 7, 2020.

The third leg of the exhibition brings Homer and Remington's work to Fort Worth, Texas to the Amon Carter Museum of American Art on view from December 22, 2020–February 28, 2021.

As the Amon Carter Museum states the exhibition has American icon Winslow Homer, famous ocean painter, joining Frederic Remington, legendary cowboy artist, for Mythmakers: The Art of Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington, the first exhibition to explore the unexpected resonances and moments of convergence between the themes, artistic sensibilities, and technical processes of these two artists. Homer and Remington were touted by turn-of-the-century critics as artists whose work reinforced an American identity rooted in action, independence, and communion with the outdoors. While both artists actively cultivated this reputation, the correlation between these two icons has never been considered in depth due to the perceived differences in their subject matter.

Winslow Homer

Watching the Breakers - A High Sea,1896

Oil on canvas

Gift of Bartlett Arkell, 1935

New York State Museum
September 16, 2017 - October 20, 2019

The first phase exhibit celebrating the construction of the Erie Canal at the New York State Museum features two works from the Arkell Museum's collection; Grocery Store on the Erie Canal, 1881 by D. Maitland Armstrong (1836-1918) and Edward P. Buyck's (1888-1960) Clinton’s Brigade at Canajoharie, June 15-30, 1779, circa 1929.

Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Massachusetts
August 3, 2019 - December 1, 2019

This summer, the Cape Ann Museum will exhibit some 50 original works by renowned American artist Winslow Homer. The exhibition will be the first close examination of the formation of this great artist as a marine painter. The Cape Ann Museum will be the sole venue for this exhibition, which will include loans from some 40 public and private collections. The Arkell Museum has loaned three of our Homer paintings: On the Beach, 1869; The See-Saw, ca. 1873; and Woman on the Beach, Marshfield, 1874. Of special note is the exciting reunion of the Arkell Museum's On the Beach and Beach Scene from the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, on loan at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid, Spain) seen below right (the Arkell Museum's On the Beach is the larger painting on the right). Homer cut the canvas apart after receiving scathing reviews at the National Academy of Design in 1869. Their 2019 reunion is a rare moment in art history!

The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York
February 8–May 12, 2019

James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
June 1, 2019 - September 8, 2019

The moon—its face, color, and enduring myth—threads through the tapestry of American landscape painting, holding timeless allure for artists everywhere. The Hudson River Museum presents a stunning exhibition devoted to the allure of the moon for American painters, whose art has reflected the eternal fascination with our closest celestial body. It is the first major museum examination of the moon as it relates to the story of the American nocturne, as it developed from the early 1820s through the late 1960s. Joining the exhibition from the Arkell Museum's collection is Winslow Homer's 1874 watercolor Moonlight.

The exhibition features more than 50 works of art, highlighting key painters who depicted the moon, from the early 19th-century masterpieces of Thomas Cole, the father of the Hudson River School, who embraced a kind of longing Romanticism that the astronomical body symbolized, to late works by famed illustrator Norman Rockwell, represented by his depictions of a long-held romantic yearning finally fulfilled–America’s triumphant lunar landing in 1969. All of the works in the exhibition underscore how the Romantic idea of the moon held an inexorable pull for artists and was central to its depiction of landscape.

Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany
November 23, 2018 - March 24, 2018

The Wallraf-Richartz-Museum will present a survey exhibition of U.S. Art from 1650 to 1950 this winter. The special exhibition will begin with works from the Colonial period, explore the masters of American Realism and conclude with examples of abstract expressionism. The Wallraf exhibition titled “Once Upon a Time in America” will be composed of about 130 loaned works from well-known collections and museums in the United States and Europe. Representing the Arkell Museum's collection are In Front of the Guard-House (Punishment for Intoxication), 1863 by Winslow Homer and The Connoisseur (In the Studio Corner), ca, 1881 by William Merritt Chase.

The exhibition also includes exceptional works from such masters as John Copley, Benjamin West, Edward Hopper, George Bellows, Georgia O’Keeffe, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman and Jackson Pollock. Each exemplifies the lively, innovative and experimental nature of American art from the very beginning. Many of the works have never been shown in Europe before. The exhibition will be presented exclusively in Cologne from November 23, 2018, to March 24, 2019, and is being sponsored by Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, and supported by the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the state’s arts foundation, Kunststiftung NRW.

New York State Museum
April 28, 2018 to September 23, 2018

The Erie Canal, the foremost engineering marvel of the 19th century, sparked the imagination of artists in America and abroad.

This companion exhibition to the New York State Museum's Enterprising Waters: New York’s Erie Canal features nine works from the Museum's collection:

View of Canajoharie, ca. 1949 by Geoffrey Biggs (1809-1894)

Departure of a Packet Boat (On the Erie Canal), 1939 by Henry Ernest Schnakenberg (1892-1970)

Life on the Towpath, 1881 by Alfred Wordsworth Thompson (1840-1896)

View of Canajoharie from a Nineteenth Century Engraving, 1944 by Esta Cosgrave (ca.1900-1952)

Erie Canal, 1856 by S. Georges (active mid-1800s)

The Mohawk Valley at Little Falls, New York, 1888 by William Rickarby Miller (1818-1893)

Erie Canal, ca. 1832 by Risso & Browne

Erie Canal at Canastota, ca. 1935 by John W. Taylor (1897-1983)

New York and the Erie Canal, 1882 by William C. Wall

Beech Nut Plant on the Mohawk River, ca. 1920 by an unknown artist.

Philadelphia Museum of Art
February 16, 2017 - June 14, 2017

Part of the Arkell Hall Foundation Collection, the George Inness (1825-1894) The River Bank, watercolor, graphite, and gouache on paper is currently on loan at the Philadelphia Museum of Art's exhibition "American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent."

Burchfield Penney Art Center at Buffalo State College
July 8, 2016 - October 23, 2016

The Burchfield Penney's exhibition "Blistering Vision" included the Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967) Dawn Over the City, a watercolor on paper.

Concord Museum
April 15, 2016 - September 18, 2016
N.C. Wyeth's (1882-1945) Fox in the Snow, oil on hardboard, traveled to the Concord Museum for their exhibition "N.C. Wyeth's Men of Concord." It was a gift to the Arkell Museum from Bartlett Arkell in 1940.

Bruce Museum
Greenwich, CT
September 26, 2015 - January 3, 2016
The Arkell Museum lent Charles Harold Davis (1856-1933) On the West Wind , Oil on canvas, Gift of Bartlett Arkell, 1929 to the Bruce Museum's exhibition "Charles Harold Davis (1856-1933): Mystic Impressionist."

Cape Ann Museum
Gloucester, MA
July 11, 2015 — Nov. 29, 2015

The Arkell Museum lent John Sloan (1871-1951)
Gloucester Trolley, 1917, Oil on canvas, Museum Purchase 1951 to the Cape Ann Museum's exhibition "John Sloan Gloucester Days."

Fenimore Art Museum
Cooperstown, NY
June 6–August 24, 2014

This exhibition of Winslow Homer watercolors and oil paintings was organized by the Arkell Museum.

Fenimore Art Museum
Cooperstown, NY
May 25 - September 2, 2013

The Arkell Museum loaned three paintings to this exhibition.
Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945)
Fox in the Snow (Thoreau and The Fox), c. 1935
Tempera on Renaissance Panel

Peter Hurd (1904-1984)
Portrait of Juan Reyes, Date: 1941
Egg tempra on panel

Andrew Newell Wyeth (1917 - 2009)
Title: February 2nd, 1942
Watercolor on paper

Portland Art Museum
Portland, Maine
September 22, 2012 - December 30, 2012

Winslow Homer (1836-1910) "Watching the Breakers: A High Sea", 1896 Oil on canvas traveled to the Portland Art Museum for the exhibition "Weatherbeaten: Winslow Homer and Maine."

This exhibition showcased 38 masterpieces that Winslow Homer (1836-1910) created during the final decades of his life, when he lived and worked in Maine.

The Mint Museum
Charlotte. NC
May 7 - August 7, 2011

Everson Museum of Art
Syracuse, NY
February 11 - May 13, 2012

Robert Henri's "Moira" , one of the first paintings Bartlett Arkell purchased for the Canajoharie Library, is on loan to this exhibition, the first to examine Henri's work focused on Irish landscapes and people, particularly children. These works were created between the time of Henri's trips to Ireland in 1913 and 1928.

Yale University Art Gallery
New Haven, CT

(January 22 - March 27, 2011)
Addison Gallery of American Art
Andover, MA

La Farge's watercolor from the Arkell Museum collection was included in this exhibition that showcased the most important La Farge oils, watercolors and sketches from his journey to the islands of the South Pacific.
(October 19, 2010 - January 2, 2011)

The Fenimore Art Museum
Cooperstown, NY

May 29 - December 31, 2010

The Arkell Museum's Sargent portrait "Head of an Italian Woman" was featured in this award winning exhibition devoted exclusively to portraits of women by American artist John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925).

National Art Museum of China, Shanghai Museum
Beijing & Shangai
February 10 - April 5, 2007

At this historic first survey exhibition of American art ever presented in the People’s Republic of China, a highlight was one of our own prized Winslow Homer paintings, "Watching the Breakers: A High Sea".

The exhibition was co-organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the Terra Foundation for American Art.