Allan Linder: The Arnot Art Museum 17th annual Gallery Gala Exhibition

The Arnot Art Museum 17th Annual Gallery Gala Exhibition

235 Lake Street Elmira, New York USA 14901

Gala Exhibition Reception Feb. 13, 2015 from 6 pm to 9 pm.

Housed in the 1833 Greek Revival former home of the Arnot family, with a grand late twentieth-century gallery addition, the Museum displays its permanent collection of seventeenth to nineteenth-century European paintings and nineteenth and twentieth-century American art. Temporary exhibitions highlight various aspects of the collections and include works from around the world.

The Arnot Art Museum is a cultural and architectural landmark in downtown Elmira, New York USA, now presenting its one-hundred-second season. The Museum is internationally renowned for its series of exhibitions and catalogs entitled Re-Presenting Representation, which explores current trends in contemporary realism; RRVIII was most recently presented as part of the gala centennial season in 2013.

The Museum also presents the permanent exhibition of its founding collection in the magnificent Victorian Picture Gallery, built by Mr. Arnot in 1883. Typical of the private art galleries found in the homes of many wealthy Americans in the late nineteenth century, it holds one of the last remaining private collections formed in the past century still housed in its original showcase.

It includes works by seventeenth-century masters: Claude, Murillo, Breughel, de Lorme, Teniers, and van de Velde; French Salon artists: Breton, Gerome, and Meissonier; and six Barbizon painters: Daubigny, Diaz de la Pena, Jacque, Rousseau, Troyon, and Millet; as well as the Realist, Courbet.