The Hyde Museum, 161 Warren St. in
Glens Falls, announced eight exhibits it has
planned for this year.
Alice Grether, director of communications
and visitor services, also announced new
admission rates for 2015. General admission
will be $15 and seniors (60-plus) will
pay $13. There is free admission for Hyde
members, children 12 and under and students
with the proper ID. Also for active duty
U.S. military and their families. Admission
is also free on the second Sunday of each
month, year round.
Hours remain the same, Tuesday – Saturday,
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sundays noon to 5
p.m.; and closed Mondays and most national
holidays.
The first of the new exhibits is “The
Stone Palette: Lithographs in 19th-Century
France,” currently in display and running
through March 15. There will be 31 prints
from The Hyde’s Tobin Sparling Family Collection
exploring lithography as a creative
medium in 19th-Century France. It is a virtual
survey of many of the important French
artists who found a new level of creative
freedom by creating lithographic prints.
“Wild Nature: Masterworks from the
Adirondack Museum runs Jan. 18 to April 12.
It is comprised of 62 masterworks revealing
how images of the Adirondack landscape
shaped America’s perception of the wilderness
and how, in turn, created wilderness
as a national icon. Works include paintings
and rarely-exhibited photographs and prints
dating from the 19th to the early 21st century.
“CLICK! Selections of Work from the
George Stephanopoulos Collection” runs
March 21 to May 31. It features 13 artists
representing a wide range of artistic expression
and subject matter. The collection was
acquired by The Hyde in 2014 and is the first
time these images will be shown to the public in a gallery setting.
The annual Juried High School Show will
run April 25 to May 31. It features works
from competing area students who hail from
Warren, Washington, Saratoga, Hamilton,
and Essex counties. Works are reviewed
and selected by a jury composed of local art
professionals.
“The Late Drawing of Andy Warhol: 1973
-1987” is set for June 21 to Sept. 2. This
exhibition, organized by The Andy Warhol
Museum, one of the four Carnegie Museums
of Pittsburgh, offers 50 works created during
one of the most prolific periods of his life.
Many of the drawings in this exhibition are
on view to the public for the first time.
“Homer’s America” runs June 21 to Sept.
13. From The Hyde’s permanent collection,
it is a selection of approximately two dozen
works, including engravings, etchings, and
paintings that focus on the artist’s chronicling
of American life.
“Audrey Flack: Transformed Drawings”
is set for Sept. 26 -to Jan. 3, 2016. Flack,
a pioneer in Photorealism, is a nationally
recognized painter, printmaker, and sculptor.
The subjects of her hyper-real canvases often
highlight women neglected or demonized by
history.
“Pulled, Pressed and Screened: Important
American Prints” will run Oct. 11 to Jan. 10,
2016. This exhibition of 50 American prints
surveys the activities of artists who put their
designs on paper during this exciting period
between 1930 and 1980 Thomas Hart Benton,
Grant Wood, Anne Ryan, Milton Avery,
Dorothy Dehner, Robert Motherwell, Andy
Warhol, Jasper Johns, and Richard Estes are
a few of the artists represented in this exhibition,
organized by the Syracuse University
Art Collection.
The museum website is hydecollection.org.