Exhibitions| Past Exhibitions

2012

• Tasha Tudor: Around the Year
  October 1, 2012 - December 30, 2012
• On the Home Front: New York in the Civil War
  September 8, 2012 - December 30, 2012
• Internal Landscapes: The Paintings of G.C. Myers
  August 18, 2012 - December 30, 2012
• American Impressionism: Paintings of Light and Life
  May 26, 2012 - September 16, 2012
• Artist & Visionary: William Matthew Prior Revealed
  May 26, 2012 - December 30, 2012
• Between the States: Photographs from the American Civil War 
  March 31, 2012 - May 13, 2012
• Heavenly Aida: Highlights from The Metropolitan Opera
  March 31, 2012 - August 26, 2012
• To Great Acclaim: Homecoming of the Thaw Collection of American Indian Art
  March 31, 2012 - December 30, 2012
• Reclaiming Gettysburg: Kevin Gray’s Modern Tintypes
  March 31, 2012 - August 5, 2012
• A Lineage of Iroquois Artistry
  March 31, 2012 - December 30, 2012
• Spellbound: The Metropolitan Opera’s Armide
  March 31, 2012 - August 26, 2012

2011

• Inspired Traditions: Selections from the Jane Katcher Collection of Americana
  October 1, 2011 - December 31, 2011
• Unfolding Stories: Culture and Tradition in American Quilts
  September 24, 2011 - December 31, 2011
• 8th Contemporary Iroquois Art Biennial: 4 Artists Under 30
  August 27, 2011 - December 31, 2011
• A Window Into Edward Hopper
  May 28, 2011 - September 11, 2011
• Prendergast to Pollock: American Modernism from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute
  May 28, 2011 - September 18, 2011
• New York’s Good Eats! Our Fabulous Foods
  May 28, 2011 - October 30, 2011
• Frida Kahlo: Through the Lens of Nickolas Muray
  April 1, 2011 - September 5, 2011
• Shadow Catcher: Edward Curtis Among the Kwakiutl
  April 1, 2011 - August 17, 2011
• The Spirit of Land and Tradition: The Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art
  April 1, 2011 - May 8, 2011
• Art Buzz: Reader’s Favorites from the Fenimore Art Museum Blog
  April 1, 2011 - December 31, 2011

2010

• Museum closed through April 1st
  December 31, 2010 - March 30, 2011
• Picturing Women: American Art from the Permanent Collections
  September 24, 2010 - December 30, 2010
• John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Praise of Women
  May 28, 2010 - December 30, 2010
• John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Praise of Women
  May 28, 2010 - December 30, 2010
• Wild Times! A New York Animal Road Trip
  March 31, 2010 - October 30, 2010
• In Our Time: The World As Seen By Magnum Photographers
  March 31, 2010 - September 5, 2010
• Bits of Home
  March 31, 2010 - December 30, 2010
• Empire Waists, Bustles & Lace: A Century of New York Fashion
  March 31, 2010 - December 30, 2010
• Watermark: Michele Harvey & Glimmerglass
  March 31, 2010 - December 30, 2010
• In Our Time: The World as Seen by Magnum Photographers
  March 31, 2010 - September 5, 2010
• In Our Time: The World as Seen by Magnum Photographers
  March 31, 2010 - September 5, 2010
• Virtual Folk: A Blog Readers' Choice
  March 31, 2010 - December 30, 2010
• Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection
  March 6, 2010 - February 11, 2012

2009

• American Landscapes from the Permanent Collection
  August 11, 2009 - December 30, 2009
• Walker Evans: Carbon and Silver
  July 17, 2009 - December 30, 2009
• America's Rome: Artists in the Eternal City, 1800-1900
  May 22, 2009 - December 30, 2009
• Fine Art from the Permanent Collection
  May 22, 2009 - December 30, 2009
• Our Stories Made Visible: Two Mohawk Women Artists, Katsitsionni Fox and Shelley Niro
  March 31, 2009 - July 4, 2009
• American Treasures from the Permanent Collections
  March 31, 2009 - May 5, 2009
• New Additions / New Perspectives: American Indian Art
  March 31, 2009 - December 30, 2009
• American Photography: Recent Acquisitions
  March 31, 2009 - August 1, 2009
• Through the Eyes of Others: African-Americans in American Art
  January 14, 2009 - January 31, 2010

2008

• Earl Cunningham's America
  September 26, 2008 - December 30, 2008
• Of, By and For the People: The Art of Presidential Elections
  September 19, 2008 - December 30, 2008
• Remembering Cooperstown: Photographs by Smith and Telfer
  September 19, 2008 - December 30, 2008
• Through the Eyes of Others: African Americans and Identity in American Art
  August 22, 2008 - December 30, 2008
• Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses: The Synagogue to the Carousel
  May 23, 2008 - August 31, 2008
• Photographs by Richard Walker
  March 31, 2008 - May 14, 2008
• Gustav Stickley: The Enlightened Home
  March 31, 2008 - August 9, 2008
• Rural Icons: Photographs by Richard Walker
  March 31, 2008 - May 10, 2008
• The Coopers of Cooperstown
  March 31, 2008 - December 30, 2008

2007

• The 6th Contemporary Iroquois Art Biennial Featuring Peter B. Jones and George Longfish
  September 21, 2007 - December 29, 2007
• Historic Village
  July 31, 2007 - August 4, 2007
• Treasures from The Frederic Remington Art Museum
  May 25, 2007 - September 3, 2007
• Ice Cream: Our Cool Obsession
  May 25, 2007 - October 30, 2008
• Folk Art on Fire
  March 31, 2007 - December 29, 2007
• Ansel Adams: The Man Who Captured the Earth's Beauty
  March 31, 2007 - May 12, 2007
• Myth & Reality: The Art of the Great Plains
  March 31, 2007 - December 29, 2007
• Panoramas of Pride: 19th Century Bird's Eye Views of New York State
  March 31, 2007 - December 29, 2007
• America's Ancient Past: Art of the Mounds and Canyon People
  March 31, 2007 - December 29, 2007

2006

• Lippitt Farmstead
  July 3, 2006 - July 31, 2006
• Grandma Moses: Grandmother to the Nation
  May 26, 2006 - December 30, 2006
• Grandma Moses: Grandmother to the Nation
  May 25, 2006 - April 17, 2008
• Reveal Conceal: The Transforming Power of Masks
  March 31, 2006 - December 30, 2006
• The Flower of Youth: 19th Century Portraits of Children
  March 31, 2006 - December 30, 2006
• Glories of the Landscape: The Hudson River School
  March 31, 2006 - December 30, 2006

2005

• Treasures from Olana: Landscapes by Frederic Edwin Church
  June 11, 2005 - September 17, 2005
• A Deaf Artist in Early America: The Worlds of John Brewster, Jr.
  March 31, 2005 - December 30, 2005
• The Empire State Carousel And Country Fair
  January 2, 2005 - May 5, 2006

2004

• Winslow Homer: Masterworks from the Adirondacks
  June 20, 2004 - September 5, 2004

• A Bold Experiment: The Lifemasks of J.H.I. Browere