Wyeth and More in Albany

There are four great exhibitions going on in Albany, and they're all in one museum: The Albany Institute of History and Art.

The first is The Wyeths: Three Generations: Works from the Bank of America Collection, which includes a couple dozen illustrations by N.C. Wyeth.

The show includes the cover and endpaper art of Rip Van Winkle, plus illustrations from The White Company and Drums.

 Andrew Wyeth (American, 1917-2009), On the Edge, 2001, Tempera on panel, Bank of America Collection.

There's also a big selection of works by NC Wyeth's son Andrew, his daughter Henriette, and his grandson Jamie. Because these are in the Bank of America Collection, they're not often seen except in traveling exhibitions.

Another show that's on view at the museum is a single large room filled with their famous collection of Hudson River School paintings, hung salon-style. 

Another small but impressive show is Romancing the Rails: Train Travel in the 1920s and 1930s, which focuses on the advertising art that promoted rail travel in the USA.

And there's a show called Fashionable Frocks of the 1920s which presents dresses from the flapper era, extravagant and bejeweled and made for dancing. We tend to think of the '20s in black and white, but it was a time of subtle and impressive coloration.

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The Albany Institute of History and Art also has a small collection of 19th century sculpture and a mummy. It's $10 for admission. The special exhibitions will be up for the remainder of the year.