Rockwell Museum, Corning NY (11/29/2019)

Friday, November 29, 2019 (continued)
We were staying overnight in Horseheads, NY, but I had learned of an Urban Arts Crawl that would offer free admission to the Rockwell Museum in Corning, NY with its Gingerbread Invitational display.

Needle & Bowl (2019, by Melissa Vandenberg), in the manner
of Buddhist prayer flags, antique handkerchiefs represent the
individuals that owned the hankies, having left DNA on them...

The Rockwell Museum was founded on a collection by Robert and Hertha Rockwell, who owned a local department store and used the store as a venue to display their collection of American art and artifacts. When the Rockwells decided to donate their collection for a museum, Corning Corporation, the City of Corning and the community worked together to raise funds to renovate Old City Hall (1893), and the museum opened in 1982.

Hunter's Bounty (2009, by Tammy Garcia), a work by one
of the emerging Native American artists featured at the museum

Sweet Dreams Baby! (1965, by Roy Lichtenstein)

Ingrid Bergman the Nun (1963, by Andy Warhol)

Last Indian Market (2014, by Cara Romero, after
The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci) (KSS)

American Women Dismantling the Border III (2018, by
Erin Currier, after Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix)

We were given ballot slips to vote for our favorite in the Gingerbread Invitational.

Country Candy Cabin by Megan W

Milano Family Dream Home by Gina T, Mary & Lauren M

Cabin on the Water by Amanda G,
Christopher K, and Kristin M

Inside the Cabin on the Water

A Modern Mid-Century Dream by Ryan A

Pleasant Grove Treehouse by David & Leah S

Hopi Dream House by Penny W, Meghan B, and Elizabeth W

Root and Branch by Abby W

Tudor Revival by Lindsay T

School Bus Dream Home by Addison Central Elementary Art Club

I voted for Root and Branch and Kent voted for Tudor Revival.

An example of Digital Art by Sophia P
at Corning-Painted Post Middle School

Breaking Down the Wild Horse (c 1820, by George Catlin) (KSS)

The painting above is also dated "1930." George Catlin was born in Wilkes-Barre, PA and as a child was fascinated with Native Americans. He was to travel West five times between 1830-1836, the first time with William Clark of Lewis and Clark fame. Catlin was the first white painter to depict the Plains Indians in their native territory.

NDN (for life) (2000, by Juane Quick-To-See-Smith),
another emerging Native American artist

Mohawk Cradleboard (c 1865) and a pair
of Seneca Corn Husk Dolls (c 1890)

Untitled (Clouds and Trees under Blue Skies)
(c 1925, by Charles E Burchfield)

Charles Burchfield was born in Ashtabula, OH. Soon after graduating from the Cleveland Institute of Art, he moved to Buffalo, NY. We know him because of the Charles Burchfield Center at Buffalo State College that was named in his honor in 1966; it is now the Burchfield Penney Art Center with the world's largest collection of works by Burchfield.

The Rattlesnake (1905, cast 1918,
by Frederic Remington)

To Noses That Read, a Smell That Spells Man
(1920, by Charles M Russell)

January (1937, by Grant Wood), apparently Wood
depicted the agrarian myth of harmony and abundance,
which was not the reality in the 1930s

Tennis (c 1919, by George Bellows), apparently Bellows
spent 1919 in Newport, RI where he observed tennis matches,
here seen as almost a dance in a theatre-like setting

Blanket Stories: Western Door, Salt Sacks and
Three Sisters (2017, by Marie Watt) uses
textiles donated by members of the community

If the woman in the wagon was scared to death at the sight of the prairie,
I surely had cause to be afraid; but I was not. I was uplifted.
(1921, by N C Wyeth)

Shoshone Painted Elk Hide (c 1900)
depicting a successful buffalo/bison hunt

Another nice little art museum, with its focus on Native American art.