The Adirondack Museum

Blue Mountain Lake, NY

518-352-7311

http://www.adkmuseum.org

 

Resource Library articles and essays honoring the American experience through its art:

In Search of a National Landscape: William Trost Richards and the Artists' Adirondacks 1855 - 1870; article by Linda S. Ferber and Caroline M. Welsh (7/1/02)

In Search of the National Landscape: William Trost Richards in the Adirondacks (10/22/01)

The View from Asgaard: Rockwell Kent's Adirondack Legacy (4/9/99) revised (1/19/00)

Adirondack Prints and Printmakers (7/18/98)

Celebrating its 40th Anniversary (5/23/97)

 

Resource Library readers may also enjoy:

THE ADIRONDACKS | Arts in The Adirondacks | PBS Preview of PBS Premiere: Wednesday, May 14th, 2008. Discover the celebrated tradition of fine arts in THE ADIRONDACKS which began in the mid-1800s, when Thomas Cole first painted here. We'll sit alongside Shirl Ireland as she captures a beautiful Adirondack scenic using a technique called Plein Air, or open air, painting. We'll also take a moment to admire a few of the hundreds of works created by storied Adirondack painters, Winslow Homer and Rockwell Kent. 4:40

and this book:

Wild Impressions: Prints from the Collection of the Adirondack Museum, By David Tatham, Georgia Barnhill. Contributor Georgia Barnhill. Published by David R. Godine Publisher, 1995. ISBN 1567920411, 9781567920413. 144 pages.

 

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