Top Scholars In Cooperstown Saturday

For ‘Folk Art, Modernism’ Symposium

COOPERSTOWN – “Folk Art and American Modernism“, The Fenimore Art Museum’s annual Americana Symposium, this year will feature leading scholars and experts on American history, art and culture.

The symposium is 9-5 Saturday, Sept. 27, at the museum. The public is welcome. $65 for members, $75 for non-members.

This year’s presentations include “The Ogunquit Modernists Discover American Folk Art” by Elizabeth Stillinger; “Forks in the Road: Continuing Narratives of Self-taught Art in America” by Stacy Hollander; and “American Museums and the Collecting and Display of American Folk Art” by Robin Jaffee Frank.

Presentations focused on individual collectors of folk art include “Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Holger Cahill and Dorothy Miller, and Edith Halpert” by Wendy Jeffers; “Elie Nadelman, Modernist Sculptor and, with His Wife, Viola, Collector of American and European Folk Art” by Cynthia Nadelman, and “Jean and Howard Lipman, Collectors of American Folk Art and Patrons of Contemporary Artists” by Ruth Wolfe.

Symposium attendees have the opportunity to explore the current exhibition, “Folk Art and American Modernism.”