COOPERSTOWN, NY.- Opening for the season on April 1, Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York, presents eleven exhibitions in 2025 alongside its world-renowned collections of fine art, folk art, and Native American art, which includes The Thaw Collection of American Indian Art. New exhibitions this spring include Snapshot: Highlights of the Plowline Collection and Emily Pettigrew: Painting in the Catskills 2021–2025. Continuing exhibitions, Boundless Spirit: American Folk Art at the Fenimore Art Museum and American Masterworks, will be on view throughout the year.
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The summer is highlighted by the exhibition Mary Cassatt / Berthe Morisot: Allies in Impressionism (May 24 – September 1, 2025). Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot, two artists thrust together due to their involvement in the Impressionist circle, have always served as an interesting comparison for art historians. Morisot proved to the Parisian art scene a woman could have both a family and a successful career while Cassatt held the belief a woman only needed her independence to be fulfilled. This exhibition showcases these two strong women artists as allies, working off one another and growing, improving their artistic output through their longstanding friendship documented in correspondences. The exhibition highlights the influence these two artists had on one another and their overarching impact on the Impressionist movement.
Mary Cassatt / Berthe Morisot: Allies in Impressionism is sponsored in part by the Wyeth Foundation for American Art, The Clark Foundation, and Nellie and Robert Gipson. The exhibition catalog is made possible through a generous gift from Denise Littlefield Sobel.
Also this summer, The Power of Photography: 19th-20th Century Original Master Prints (May 24 – September 1, 2025) featuring a selection of 120 iconic images by 120 different photographers, which celebrate the photograph’s unique capacity for relatability. In the fall, Exploring Calvin and Hobbes (September 13 – December 31, 2025), featuring original Calvin and Hobbes daily and Sunday strips as well as specialty pieces by cartoonist Bill Watterson from his collection of more than 3,000 originals housed at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at The Ohio State University.
Fenimore Art Museum, nestled on the shore of picturesque Otsego Lake, offers visitors to the village of Cooperstown an opportunity to experience a wide variety of world-class art in an idyllic, small-town setting.
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