American Folk Art @ Cooperstown

On a recent visit to Salem I happened upon a stunning sculpture by an 18th-century carver, Simeon Skillen, Jr., who is also represented ...

As part of my annual media tour to promote the Fenimore Art Museum I happened to have an interview with an arts writer for the Huffington...

The William Matthew Prior portraits are coming in and we are laying them out in the gallery. This is one of my favorite parts of the job...

Most early American folk portraitists worked in either oil on canvas or watercolor on paper. Very few mastered the art of reverse painting ...