Arkell Museum

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The Arkell Museum

Tucked away in the tiny town of Canajoharie, located in rural Upstate, New York, is The Arkell Museum. Founded in 1924, the museum was built to house the various 19th century paintings collected by Bartlett Arkell, the town's leading industrialist.

Arkell acquired and donated some of the finest American paintings he came across. He incorporated several elements from different art museums that he visited in Europe and the United States into this museum. These were the European paintings Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Prince George Gallery at the Walker Art Museum in Liverpool, England and the gallery that housed the Night Watch at the Rijkesmuseum in Amsterdam, Holland. Many of the paintings on display [1] reflect Arkell's personal taste. Growing up in Canajoharie, landscapes of rural New York State and the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers are what Arkell found intriguing as well as familiar as they can be seen hanging on the museum walls.

In addition to landscapes of New York, Arkell also incorporated his love for New England and European countries like France and England into his collection by acquiring landscapes of these areas.

The collection also includes many paintings by Winslow Homer, one of Arkell's favorite artists, Childe Hassam, and the Vermont Regionalists. American Impressionist Painters and American Watercolor Painting also fill the museum. As with many collections founded prior to World War II, it also abounds in portraits of famous men and of the type of woman he found attractive, women with dark hair and eyes. All three of his wives had such hair and eye color.

This decorative arts collection derived from Arkell's desire to acquire objects of good taste such as furniture, sculpture, glass and pottery to place in the museum and library.

The Arkell Museum is open to the public and is located at 2 Erie Boulevard Canajoharie, New York, with regular hours of 10 AM-5 PM Monday through Friday and 1 PM to 5 PM on Saturdays and Sundays.

Its rates are:

Adults:

  $7.00 

Students and Senior Citizens:

  $5.00 

Children ages 11 and under are free when accompanied by an adult.

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