Cornish Colony Museum

Cornish Colony Museum

147 Main Street, Windsor, VT 05089 • (802) 674-6008

THE CORNISH COLONY MUSEUM ANNOUNCES ITS 2008 EXHIBIT

THE POWER OF PLACE:

Paintings That Define The American Image

Maxfield Parrish, Hunt Farm (1948)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. Gift of the Artist through the Friends of the Library

The Cornish Colony Museum celebrates the acquisition of its own building this spring with a prestigious exhibition featuring major landscape paintings by such notable artists as Maxfield Parrish, Albert Bierstadt, William Bradford, Sanford Gifford, Willard Metcalf, George Inness and many others.

The exhibition opens Memorial Day weekend and runs through October 26, 2008

Late breaking news, too late to make the catalog for this show, is the addition from a private lender of the spectacular Maxfield Parrish painting called Circe's Palace which illustrated an edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Tanglewood Tales" in 1909.

Details of the exhibit and the concept of "The Power of Place" begins in the tab above under "Exhibitions", and the background of the Circe's Palace painting is under the tab "Education", along with an illustration of the painting itself.

William Bradford, Caught in the Ice Floes (1867)
New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, MA

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SAVE THESE IMPORTANT FUND RAISING DATES FOR 2008

June 21:              Cornish Colony Gardens Tour 10-3 PM
September 20:   4th annual Great Gatsby Party         5-10 PM
December 13: Christmas Holiday House Tour   10-3 PM

Further information on these forthcoming events may be found under the ABOUT US tab above.

KINUKO Y. CRAFT HONORED AT HALL OF FAME IN NEW YORK CITY

The Cornish Colony Museum is extremely proud that Kinuko Y. Craft, whose paintings are regularly shown at our exhibits, will be one of five persons to be inducted this year into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in New York City. She is one of only 14 women to be accepted by the society, and the only Asian woman ever to be accorded this honor.

Mrs. Craft's induction on June 19th places her in the company of Americas greatest illustrators and artists such as Norman Rockwell; Charles Dana Gibson; N.C. Wyeth; Maxfield Parrish; Howard Pyle; Winslow Homer; J. C. Leyendecker; Howard Chandler Christy; Rockwell Kent; Maurice Sendak; Jessie Willcox Smith; Elizabeth Shippen Green; Violet Oakley and many, many others.

Located in the historic Old Fire Station building
147 Main St., Windsor,VT.

Telephone
(802) 674-6008
for information on hours and admission rates.

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