The Fenimore Art Museum will present “Artist and Visionary: William Matthew Prior Revealed” — the first show dedicated solely to the oil paintings of American folk artist — starting Saturday.
The exhibition will include more than 40 oil paintings spanning his lifetime career from 1824 to 1856.
According to a media release, Prior was the first folk to artist to institute a price scale, offering to paint “without shade or shadow” at one-quarter the cost. This scale made his work available to a wider group of sitters.
Prior’s catalog of work document 19th century middle-class Americans, including a large number of African-Americans.
A fully illustrated catalogue with essays by Jacquelyn Oak and Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw will accompany the exhibition.
The show runs through Dec. 31.
Also opening at the museum Saturday is “American Impressionism: Paintings of Light and Life.”
This display will showcase the work of artists including Childe Hassam, William Merritt Chase, Mary Cassatt, Theodore Robinson, John Henry Twachtman and others.
These adaptors of French Impressionist style “revolutionized the American art scene in the late 19th century and ultimately paved the way to a uniquely American style of painting,” the release said.
The exhibit will house 26 paintings, dating from 1881 through 1942, representing the full span of American Impressionism.
Impressionism was a painting style imported to America after the 1880s, the release said. The artists in “American Impressionism” represent the first generation of American painters to utilize the techniques of French counterparts Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet and others.
These techiques include use of broken brushwork and brighter palette. They painted traditional subjects with a particular interest in the way light could be captured on canvas, the release said.
This show runs through Sept. 16.
The museum is at 5798 State Highway 80 in Cooperstown. For more information, call 547-1400 or visit www.fenimoreartmuseum.org.
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