This exhibition will explore the breadth of this Golden Age artist’s career, beginning with Schoonover’s art school experiences as a student in Pyle’s classes at the newly founded Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry in Philadelphia, beginning in 1896, and his time at the Chadds Ford Summer School in 1899, where he honed his skills among other gifted Pyle pupils.
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This solo show of innovative works by renowned glass artist Josh Simpson reflects his fascination with astrophysics, deep space, and the cosmos. Simpson’s imaginative Planets – solid glass spheres that suggest distant worlds and landscapes – are displayed with large-diameter discs full of swirling textures and colors that evoke nebulae and colliding stars.
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Frank E. Schoonover: American Visions traces the creative and geographical journey of Golden Age illustrator Frank Earle Schoonover (1877-1972). Schoonover’s dynamic adventure paintings and illustrations for literary classics were inspired by the belief that artists should live what they paint—an adage often repeated by his noted teacher, illustrator Howard Pyle (1853-1911). Among the more than 80 works in the exhibition are Schoonover’s historical book illustrations and dramatically stage adventure paintings for such classic stories as Kidnapped, Robinson Crusoe, Swiss Family…
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Working in the tradition of Frank E. Schoonover and the Golden Age masters, renowned illustrator Gregory Manchess has created a lavishly painted novel about the son of a famed polar explorer searching for his stranded father, and a lost city buried under snow in an alternate future. In Above the Timberline, when it started to snow, it didn’t stop for 1,500 years. The Pole Shift that ancient climatologists talked about finally came, the topography was ripped apart and the weather…
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Exploring the commonality and distinctiveness of peoples and their traditions around the world through the art and stories in children’s picture books. Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and the Chinese New Year are celebrated in 30 original works created by six award-winning children’s book illustrators, highlighting our shared hopes and dreams for our communities and families.
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From a tiny hummingbird in flight to an enormous swirling storm cloud, photographs of some of the world’s most astounding phenomena are on view in the National Geographic exhibition Rarely Seen.
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Festival of Trees 2018: Often Heard will challenge participants to interpret their favorite music in their tree decorations: this year’s Festival will feature more than 100 dazzling, decorated holiday trees, each one depicting a popular song. From hip-hop to doo-wop, blues and jazz to pop, country, and rock, Museum visitors will try to guess the song titles from the decorations on each tree. All the trees festooned with musical themes are sponsored by businesses, schools, and community organizations in this…
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Nature’s extremes—remote, fantastical, and unpredictable—permeated artistic imagery and popular media throughout the nineteenth century. News outlets reported on natural disasters around the globe, researchers defined modern scientific fields, and authors like Jules Verne infused their adventure novels with technological experimentation. Newly founded journals, such as Scientific American and the French La Nature, detailed emerging scientific theories and speculated upon Earth’s origins and its position within the greater cosmos. Influenced in part by the prevalence of scientific inquiry in popular culture,…
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Thomas Gainsborough: Drawings at the Clark reveals the artist’s fascination with mixed-media technique: graphite, chalks, ink washes, watercolor, and oil paints intermingle on toned papers. Together, the sixteen drawings on view in the Clark’s Manton Gallery for British Art demonstrate how Gainsborough championed an imaginative approach over naturalistic detail.
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December is a magical time of year at the Red Lion Inn. It’s transformed into a charmingly decorated scene with cherished traditions of our Candy Red Lion Inn, 30 real Christmas Trees, 65 real wreaths, 37 real kissing balls and small wreaths handmade from recycled material on every guestroom door. There’s daily entertainment in the Lobby including songs from A Christmas Carol performed by the Berkshire Theater Festival. Click here to daily schedule.
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The Porches Inn at MASS MoCA
Berkshire Elegant Country Inns
Sloane’s Tavern at Cranwell
Berkshire Co-op Market: Apple-solutely fresh.
Relax at Courtyard Marriott Lenox