Holiday Decorating

The Holiday decorating Committee has been hard at work and is pleased to announce a splendid lineup of trees that will grace the Museum lobby and galleries. In conjunction with the our celebration of American quilts, with the exhibition Let Me Quilt One More Day in the McKernan Gallery, the Museum Lobby will feature a 14-foot quilt Christmas tree decked out with handmade quilt-themed ornaments, compliments of members of the Studio Art Quilters Associates, The Journal Art Quilters of Berlin, Connecticut, and many local quilt artists. Better yet, many of these ornaments will be available in our Museum Shop!

The second floor will feature a Kwanzaa Tree which will be decorated with handmade ornaments by artist and docent Loretta Eason. Don’t forget to check out the Victorian Charm of the Moser Library, once the dining room for the Landers House. Artist Ken Adams brings us full scale Victorian Christmas charm!

Trees boasting reinterpretations of favorites from the collection will be dispersed throughout the galleries, decorated and crafted by our Holiday Decorating Committee. The Hudson River School Gallery will house a tree inspired by Albert Bierstadt’s, Seal Rock. The Impressionism Gallery will be home to our very own Willard Leroy Metcalf, Mountain Laurel tree. The Academic Gallery will house a tree inspired by Winslow Homer’s Butterflies (The Butterfly Girl, Summer). In the Benton Gallery, be sure to check out the brightly colored interpretive tree of the Thomas Hart Benton Murals. Right next door, in the Contemporar