Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection
March 7, 2010 - February 12, 2012
Fenimore

The Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York announces a new
traveling exhibition entitled Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection. This major exhibition is currently scheduled to
travel to three cities, bringing to light rarely seen treasures from
the extensive holdings of The Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Collection of
American Indian Art.  The collection is widely recognized as one of the
most important assemblages of this type in the world. The New York
Times described it as “a collection any museum in the world should
envy.”

Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection is scheduled
to travel to the following locations with more venues to be announced.

* The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (Mar. 7, 2010 - May 30, 2010)
* Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN (Oct. 24, 2010 - Jan. 9, 2011)
* Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN (Dec. 4, 2011 – Feb. 12, 2012)

The exhibition explores the extraordinarily diverse forms of visual
expression in American Indian heritage. Organized by geographic culture
areas, the objects were chosen both for their high artistic quality and
to provide insight into the complex cultural, aesthetic and spiritual
meanings embedded in the art. The objects date from well before first
European contact to the present, and celebrate the continuing vitality
of American Indian art.

“The collection has long been recognized as a national treasure.  This
traveling exhibition gives us the opportunity to finally share these
significant works with a much larger, national audience,” said Paul
D’Ambrosio, Vice President and Chief Curator at the Fenimore Art Museum.

A 120 page, full color catalog will accompany the exhibition.

This exhibition has been made possible by the National Endowment for
the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic
Genius.