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This is an image of Winslow Homer's painting - Moonlight. It is a beach scene and there are two people sitting in the sand, looking up at the moon.

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Selections from the Permanent Collection

  • Woman seated in profile. She has brown hair pulled back. She has a long next and arm. She wears a pink dress of gauzy fabric. She reads a letter.

    Thomas Dewing (1851-1938)

    The Letter (Lady in Pink, A Note), 1889

    Oil on panel

    Gift of Bartlett Arkell, 1928

  • Group of women seated around a large table intent on their handiwork. They wear dresses but their faces are unclear and obscured.

    Robert Blum (1857-1903)

    Venetian Lace Makers, 1885

    Oil on canvas

    Gift of Bartlett Arkell, 1936

  • Portrait of a woman from the neck up. She wears a large blue hat with a wide brim. She has brown hair and pink lips. The pastel gives the piece a hand drawn quickly finished air.

    Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)

    Portrait of Mathilde Valiet, ca. 1890

    Pastel on paper

    Museum purchase, 1958

  • The statue is a naked woman. She restrains a tall hound with her right hand. The dog's front legs are off the ground. In the left had the woman has raised a gold bow. She looks to be stepping forward. Her hair is pulled back and there is a tiara on h

    Edward Francis McCartan (1879 – 1947)  

    Diana and the Dog

    Bronze

    Gift of Bartlett Arkell, 1925

  • A grassy beach scene composed of small, soft brushstrokes and populated with sailboats, groups of people and a prominent white house with a red roof.

    William Glackens (1870-1938)

    Beach in Nova Scotia, 1910

    Oil on canvas 

    Museum Purchase, 1958

  • A portrait of a seated young girl with pale skin, short dark red hair, and blue-green eyes wearing a yellow dress with a green collar, shawl and headband. Arms crossed in front of her.

    Robert Henri (1865-1929)

    Moira, 1924

    Oil on canvas

    Gift of Bartlett Arkell, 1925

  • Oil painting of the landscape surrounding El Capitan mountain in Yosemite National Park. A large stone mountain rises out of the background. To the left and right of the painting are trees, in the center a field.

    Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902)

    El Capitan, ca. 1872-74

    Oil on paper mounted on linen

    Gift from the Estate of Laura Platt, 1964

  • Portrait from the shoulders up of a young girl with pale white skin, blonde hair, blue eyes, and red lips. She looks at the viewer. She wears a green dress. With a blue bow in her hair.

    George Bellows (1882-1925)

    Anne, 1924

    Oil on canvas

    Gift of Bartlett Arkell, 1925

  • Oil painting in the impressionist style of a large tall wooden ship with sales furled sailing out at sea. Colors are soft pinks and dark blues.

    Clifford W. Ashley (1881-1947)

    U.S.S. Constitution, 1929

    Oil on canvas

    Gift of Bartlett Arkell, 1930

  • Watercolor painting of a city scape at dusk. The city is shadowy and only a sliver of skyline is seen because of a bright burst of orange sky right at the horizon line.

    Charles Burchfield (1893-1967)

    Dawn Over the City, 1924

    Watercolor on paper

    Museum Purchase, 1948

  • Portrait of an older woman in a white blouse. She wears glasses around her neck on a chain. The woman has her gray hair pulled back into a high bun. She has a wrinkled face with deep set eyes.

    Thomas Eakins (1844-1916)

    Portrait of Mrs. Stokes, 1903

    Oil on canvas

    Gift of Bartlett Arkell, 1934

  • Oil painting of a seated woman who is bent over looking at a stack of paintings. She has selected some any they lay before her feet on the ground. Surrounding her are various paintings and antiques that dress up the artists studio.

    William Merritt Chase (1849 -1916)

    The Connoisseur (In the Studio Corner), ca. 1885

    Oil on canvas

    Gift of Bartlett Arkell, 1939

  • A landscape painting depicting an expansive blue sky that fills two thirds of the canvas with soft white clouds and rolling softly lit hills below.

    Charles H. Davis (1856-1933)

    On the West Wind, n.d.

    Oil on canvas

    Gift of Bartlett Arkell, 1929

  • Oil painting of a man from the shoulders up in profile. He wears a broad brim hat, has a long mustache and pink cheeks.

    Frank Duveneck (1848-1919)

    The Poacher, ca. 1876

    Oil on canvas

    Gift of Bartlett Arkell, 1938

  • watercolor painting of a beach with an abandoned row boat, no water. The mid ground has grassy dunes. The background is a small clapboard train station and a rusty train car.

    Edward Hopper (1882-1967)

    Back of the Freight Station, 1932

    Watercolor on paper

    Museum purchase, 1948

  • Oil painting of a small general store. In front of the general store is a horse tied up to a post. A woman stands in the doorway as though she were hanging something up. Goods and wares stand in front of the building. One of them is a large red plow.

    D. Maitland Armstrong (1836-1918)

    Grocery Store on the Erie Canal, 1881

    Oil on canvas

    Gift of Frank and Bertelle Arkell Barbour, 1947

  • Oil painting of a countryside with villages, houses and farms. There are many children playing. A central house is the focus of the painting. There are children playing croquet and a child running to an outhouse. In front of this house is a small bla

    Laruen Ford (1891-1973)

    A Country Doctor, ca 1935

    Oil on canvas

    Gift of Bartlett Arkell, 1938

  • Oil painting of a field of golden wheat. Men in the background harvest the wheat with a green colored hay machine. The sky is bright with white clouds.

    Edward Gay (1837-1928)

    Mother Earth, 1892

    Oil on canvas

    Gift of Bartlett Arkell, 1930

  • Oil painting of the Mohawk Valley. There is a road with an orange car on it in the foreground. In the midground is a large black locomotive with steam coming out of the top. In the background is the Mohawk River with a large steaming along it. Behind

    Walter Greene (1870-1956)

    In the Mohawk Valley, 1937

    Oil on canvas

    Gift of Bartlett Arkell

  • Impressionist style oil painting. The scene is taken in from above. There are the roofs of houses, out beyond the houses is the spire of a white church then water with sail boats on it.

    Childe Hassam (1859 -1935)

    Provincetown, 1900

    Oil on canvas

    Gift of Bartlett Arkell, 1929

  • Pastel painting of a white house with large porch. In front is a large tree. The painting is in the impressionist style with lots of movement and brush strokes.

    Childe Hassam (1859-1935)

    Brush House, 1902

    Pastel on paper

    Given in loving memory of Mary Arkell Price by her husband, Robert M. Price and their children, 1997

  • Portrait of a man in ¾ profile. He wears a large brown cowl around his shoulders. His has a distinct jaw line, dark eyes and a pronounced nose.

    Peter Hurd (1904-1984)

    Portrait of Juan Reyes, 1940

    Egg tempera on Masonite board

    Gift of Bartlett Arkell, 1942

  • A shadowy landscape with a dark sky and central rainbow above a curvy road, a hayfield with farmers, and a herder lounging by a forest with their sheep.

    George Inness (1825-1894)

    A Passing Shower, ca. 1860

    Oil on canvas

    Arkell Hall Foundation Collection

  • Oil painting of a forest path. On the path is a drover with two oxen. Light shines down upon then from between the trees. There is a man standing on the right side of the painting under a tree. There is a fence off to the left side. The trees are lar

    George Inness (1825 -1894)

    Summer Woods (Landscape with Oxen), 1870

    Oil on canvas

    By Bequest of Bartlett Arkell

  • Oil painting of a landscape. There are three cows in the right lower corner. Then behind is a field. There are three men working in the field. Two men work on a bale of hay. There are trees behind them. In the background you can see a village with th

    George Inness (1825-1894)

    The Rainbow, ca. 1878

    Oil on canvas  

    Gift of Bartlett Arkell, 1934

  • Oil painting of a group of ducks in a pen. The dusk are white, black and brow in color.

    Alexander Koester (1864-1932)

    Ducks, ca. 1925

    Oil on canvas

    Gift of Bartlett Arkell, 1933

  • Oil painting of the Brooklyn Bridge with the tops of buildings in the foreground. There are white dots in the air depicting snow. The painting is in the impressionist style and the brush strokes are very prominent

    Ernest Lawson (1873-1939)

    Winter Twilight – Brooklyn Bridge, 1932

    Oil on canvas

    Gift of the Artist, 1933

  • Oil painting of a still life of fruit in a bowl. The fruit in the bowl are oranges, lemons and limes. An orange, lemon and lime also have fallen out of the bowl and sit on a white doily. There is a chartreuse background behind the fruit.

    Luigi Lucioni (1900-1988)

    Still Life with Fruit, 1934

    Oil on canvas

    Gift of Arkell, 1936

Selections from the Winslow Homer Collection

  • Oil painting of a man standing on a wooden box he wears baggy clothing and a hat. He holds a large log on his shoulder. A man in a soldiers uniform stands with his back to the viewer. He holds a musket.

    Winslow Homer (1836 -1910)

    In Front of the Guard-House (Punishment for Intoxication), 1863

    Oil on canvas

    Gift of Bartlett Arkell, 1941

  • A cloudy grey scene with a full body profile of a sailor seated on the edge of a cliff with his hands in his lap grasping a telescope and gazing out at the sea.

    Winslow Homer (1836-1910)

    Above the Sea, Tynemouth, ca. 1881 or 1882

    Watercolor over graphite on wove paper

    Arkell Hall Foundation Collection

  • A soft nature scene depicting large willow trees, a swampy forest floor and two white birds with long necks, beaks and legs, and one accented in red.

    Winslow Homer (1836-1910)

    At Tampa, Florida, 1885

    Watercolor and graphite on paper

    Gift of Bartlett Arkell, 1941

  • The full-body profile of a young boy seated on a large rocky cliff staring out at the sea as waves cast sea spray into the air in the painting’s top left.

    Winslow Homer (1836-1910)

    Boy on Rocks, ca. 1873

    Watercolor over graphite on wove paper

    Gift of Bartlett Arkell, 1932

  • Watercolor painting of a man dressed as a Zouve officer from the Civil War. He wears a conical red cap. He hands a canteen to a small black child dressed in rags.

    Winslow Homer (1836-1910)

    Contraband, 1875

    Watercolor and graphite on paper

    Gift of Bartlett Arkell, 1937

  • Boy with red hair stands in front of a shed under a shady tree. The boy is feeding a group of chickens

    Winslow Homer (1836 -1910)

    Feeding the Chickens, ca. 1854-1858

    Oil on canvas

    Gift of Bartlett Arkell, 1943

  • Oil painting of a field with a shack or outbuilding against a fence. A woman in a pink dress with a white bonnet looks over the fence. Her back is turned to the viewer. A spray of fall leaves drapes the shack.

    Winslow Homer (1836 -1910)

    Girl at the Fence, ca. 1878

    Oil on canvas

    Gift of Bartlett Arkell, 1942

  • A grey ocean scene with small sailboats in the distance depicting a sailor carrying a yellow jacket and crossing a rocky shore with two young children.

    Winslow Homer (1836-1910)

    Homecoming, 1883

    Watercolor over graphite on wove paper

    Gift of Bartlett Arkell (by bequest), 1946

  • A young boy in a long sleeve shirt, pants and suspenders seated at a desk in a decorated chair beside a window resting his head on his hand reading a book.

    Winslow Homer (1836-1910)

    Homework, 1874

    Watercolor over graphite on wove paper

    Gift of Bartlett Arkell, 1940

  • A beach scene depicting a calm sea reflecting the sun light and a nearly silhouetted couple from behind as they sit in the sand and gaze out at the sea.

    Winslow Homer (1836-1910)

    Moonlight, 1874

    Watercolor over graphite on wove paper

    Gift of Bartlett Arkell, 1941

Selections from the Beech-Nut Collection

  • Black and white photo of a barn with Beech-Nut advertisements on it. There is a wagon out front.

    Beech-Nut Barn Advertisements, n.d.

    Photograph

    Arkell Museum Collection

  • Advertisement with a large white puffy character wearing a hat and holding a glass and bottle of ginger ale. There is writing below the graphic that describes ginger ale in flowery terms.

    The Ladies Home Journal Ginger Ale Advertisement, 1920

    Arkell Museum Collection

  • Black and white photo of the roof of a packing company. A conveyor belt moves boxes of ginger ale over the roof. There is the back of a large sign that reads: Beech-Nut

    Ginger Ale Packing Line, ca. 1920-1923

    Photograph

    Arkell Museum Collection

  • a rectangular blue box with the Beech-Nut company logo on top and sides. The logo is a red circle with a cream center. The red circle reads: Beech Nut Brand Cheese. Inside the cream circle it reads Beech-Nut with an illustration of a beech nut with

    Beech-Nut Cheese Box, ca 1905-1908

    Cardboard

    Arkell Museum Collection

  • Color photo of a marble stairwell with a chirstmas tree shaped out of potted poinsettias

    Beech-Nut Packing Company Foyer at Christmas, 1922

    Photograph

    Arkell Museum Collection

  • Color photo of a small elephant made out of rubber. It wears and elaborate headdress and blanket of red velvet and gold stiching

    Elephant from the Beech-Nut Mechanical Circus, c.a. 1930-1945

    Arkell Museum Collection

  • Beech-Nut Coffee Container, ca. 1923-1960

    Metal

    Arkell Museum Collection

  • Color cardboard cut out of a man and a woman sharing

    Beech-Nut Coffee Display, ca 1923-1960

    Cardboard

    Arkell Museum Collection

  • Black and white photo of the interior of a factory where tins of coffee are being placed into boxes. The boxes are marked Beech-Nut Coffee

    Beech-Nut Coffee Packing, n.d.

    Photograph

    Arkell Museum Collection

  • Oval label reads: Beech-Nut Brand Beech-Nut Packing Co Rochester NY Cherry Preserve

    Cherry Jam Label, ca 1901-1939

    Paper

    Arkell Museum Collection

  • Candy wrapper marked Penny sized Beech-Nut Bessie Bar, 1 cent also made in 5 cent size

    Beech-Nut Bessie Bar Wrapper, 1929

    Paper

    Arkell Museum Collection

  • Black and white photo of a man in a white apron standing in front of a large display of Beech-Nut Junior Foods.

    Beech-Nut Baby Food Store Display, n.d.

    Photograph

    Arkell Museum Collection

  • Color advertisement of a young girl in a forest running at the viewer. She carries a wintergreen leaf in her hand. She wears a white dress with a red sash, she has a red bow in her head.

    Bessie Beech-Nut Wintergreen Advertisement, n.d.

    Paper

    Arkell Museum Collection

  • Black and white photograph of two men talking to one another as they look at a Beech-Nut advertisement.

    Grocery Store Interior, 1952

    Photograph

    Arkell Museum Collection

  • Red and white Beech-Nut peanut butter label. Reads: Beech-Nut Peanut Butter easy to spread grade a.

    Beech-Nut Peanut Butter Label, ca. 1904-1958

    Paper

    Arkell Museum Collection

  • Black and white photo of two women sitting at a table picking out bad peanuts.

    Peanut Sorting, 1938

    Photograph

    Arkell Museum Collection

  • Black and white photo of a statue of a girl and a dog in front of a large building with many windows.

    Bessie Statue in Canajoharie, NY, ca. 1912-1940

    Photograph

    Arkell Museum Collection

  • Black and white photo of women standing at a conveyor line processing sliced apples

    Apple Processing, n.d.

    Photograph

    Arkell Museum Collection

  • Colored poster of two women holding drums full of Beech-Nut gum. The women ear red and blue uniforms with tall hats. They have short hair and smile at the viewer.

    Beech-Nut Sample Girl Advertisement, 1928-1945

    Cardboard

    Arkell Museum Collection

  • Small cardboard box with a green lid and checkered edge. Text on box reads: A little souvenir of your visit to the Beech-Nut Plant

    Souvenir Box, n.d.

    Cardboard

    Arkell Museum Collection

  • Oil painting of a tin can of Beech-Nut Cooked Spaghetti with a fancy tureen full of spaghetti

    American School

    Beech-Nut Cooked Spaghetti, ca. 1926; altered ca. 1932

    Oil on canvas

    Gift of David Kunz, 1982 

  • Black and white photo of stancks and stacks of crates of squash with a truck delivering more. A man uses a forklift to remove the crates from the truck.

    Squash Crates, 1951

    Photograph

    Arkell Museum Collection

  • Black and white photo of a truck with a large orange spitting out orange drop candies into a roll wrapper of drops.

    Orange Drop Parade Float, n.d.

    Photograph

    Arkell Museum Collection

  • Color photo post card showing yellow and red factory buildings. The yellow building has a sign that reads: Beech-Nut Packing Co.

    Beech-Nut Factory Postcard, ca.1900-1925

    Paper

    Arkell Museum Collection

Selections from the History Collection

  • Black and sepia photo of a village. Many buildings are shown with a small river running through it.

    Village of Canajoharie, ca. 1895

    Photograph

    Arkell Museum Collection

  • Black and white ariel photo of Canajoharie. Shows the NY State Thruway construction

    Ariel View of Canajoharie and New York State Thruway Construction, ca. 1950

    Photograph

    Arkell Museum Collection

  • Black and white photo of a large house with a pond in the foreground

    Arkell Hall, 1875

    Photograph

    Arkell Museum Collection

  • Black and white photo of a large three story hotel. There is a stop light out front in the street.

    Wagner Hotel and Dummy Light, n.d.

    Photograph

    Arkell Museum Collection

  • Small White teacup and saucer with an image of Canajoharie Falls on the front

    Canajoharie Falls Teacup, n.d.

    Porcelain

    Arkell Museum Collection

  • Black and white photo of a downtown area with brick buildings and cars from the 1930s

    Downtown Canajoharie, 1936

    Photograph

    Arkell Museum Collection

  • Orange and white printed sheet music with a waterway and a picture of a woman in a fancy dress

    Down Where the Silv’ry Mohawk Flows Sheet Music, n.d.

    Paper

    Arkell Museum Collection

  • Black and white photograph of a tree lined street with a factory on the left and a stone building on the right.

    Church Street Canajoharie, ca. 1930

    Photograph

    Arkell Museum Collection

  • Black and white photo of a large dirt road like area, behind there is a smoke stack and factory.

    Erie Canal Filled In Canajoharie, N.Y., March 3, 1919

    Photograph

    Arkell Museum Collection

  • Black and white photo of a street with brick buildings and trees in the background.

    Downtown Canajoharie Looking North, 1936

    Photograph

    Arkell Museum Collection

  • Black and white photo of a line of teenagers with bicycles.

    Canajoharie High School Bicycle Club, 1939-1943

    Photograph

    Arkell Museum Collection

    Gift of Stuart Wesing

  • Black and white photo of a garden with a statue of a naked woman standing on a fish. There is a stone building in the background

    Memorial Garden, n.d.

    Photograph

    Arkell Museum Collection

  • Black and white photograph of a stone building with winter snow in front, on the roof and trees in front of the building

    Canajoharie Library and Art Gallery, March 5, 1940

    Photograph

    Arkell Museum Collection