» Adirondack art http://adirondackexplorer.org/out-takes Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:26:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Finch, Pruyn in art http://adirondackexplorer.org/out-takes/2009/09/22/finch-pruyn-in-art/ http://adirondackexplorer.org/out-takes/2009/09/22/finch-pruyn-in-art/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:55:43 +0000 Phil http://adirondackexplorer.org/out-takes/?p=510 The history of Finch, Pruyn & Co. and its paper mill in Glens Falls is intertwined with the history of the Adirondack Park. Two years ago, the company sold all its lands, more than 160,000 acres, to the Nature Conservancy and its mill to Atlas Holdings. Much of the land is expected to added to the [...]]]>

The history of Finch, Pruyn & Co. and its paper mill in Glens Falls is intertwined with the history of the Adirondack Park. Two years ago, the company sold all its lands, more than 160,000 acres, to the Nature Conservancy and its mill to Atlas Holdings. Much of the land is expected to added to the state Forest Preserve.finch-painting

The Hyde Collection of Glens Falls will soon be exhibiting a piece of Finch, Pruyn’s history. The museum just announced that it received an oil painting by Douglass Crockwell titled Paper Workers, Finch Pruyn & Co. The artist, who died in 1968, was the first director of the Hyde Collection and an illustrator for such magazines as Saturday Evening Post, Life, Look, and Esquire.

“This painting is a remarkable example of his endeavor as a fine artist–long before he became the famous illustrator of the 1940s and ’50s,” said Erin B. Coe, the Hyde’s chief curator. Done during the Depression, the oil painting shows two men at work, closely watched by a supervisor.

The painting was donated to the museum by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel P. Hoopes of Bolton Landing. It will be sent to the Williamstown Art Conservation Center for cleaning and other treatment and before it’s put on display.

It’s uncertain when the painting will be returned to the museum,but Coe’s best guess is that it will be eight months to a year.

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A Coming Storm in the Adirondacks. Painting by Homer Watson.

A Coming Storm in the Adirondacks. Painting by Homer Ransford Watson.

The July/August issue of the Adirondack Explorer will include two pages of paintings and photographs from “A ‘Wild, Unsettled Country’: Early Reflections of the Adirondacks,” an exhibit that opened today at the Adirondack Museum. It runs through Oct. 18.
Lovers of art and nature may be interested in a similar exhibit at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts called “Expanding Horizons,” which will run June 18 through Sept. 27. The museum has assembled nearly two hundred landscape paintings and photographs created between the Civil War and the outbreak of World War II. The museum says the works portray landscapes in the United States and Canada in “an era of artistic and historical transformation coinciding with the westward expansion of the two countries.”
The Montreal exhibit includes A Coming Storm in the Adirondacks, painted by Homer Ransford Watson a Canadian artist, in 1879. The musuem’s spokesman did not know if the oil painting depicts an actual landscape in the Adirondacks. It doesn’t look like anyplace I know, but if I were to speculate, I’d say it was inspired by the Hudson Gorge.

Anybody have another guess?

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