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This event is in the past.It took place on May 10, 2026 at Fenimore Art Museum.

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Fine Arts Exhibition
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Pints and Paintings: Thomas Cole and Frederic Church’s Tavern Sign

Cooperstown

A historic tavern sign painted by Thomas Cole and Frederic Church, two giants of the Hudson River School. It's a charmingly odd artifact: America's greatest landscape artists once bartered paintings for bar tabs.

Hudson River School
19th century American art
museum exhibit
art history

Tips

🎨Cole and Church were Hudson River School founders
🍺artists once painted tavern signs to pay debts

Fenimore Art Museum

5798 NY-80, Cooperstown, NY 13326, USA

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