Our town may be on the small side, but there certainly are lots of attractions and things to do. The Hyde Collection is an art museum downtown, which we can walk to – again another point scored for smaller towns.
Sunday was a really fall day for walking and bonus is that the Hyde has free admission on the 2nd Sunday of each month.
The Hyde consists of a historic house and a gallery annex.
It was the last day of the current exhibit of women impressionist painters, featuring Jane Peterson.
The impressionist period is my favorite art style, so I really enjoyed the exhibit. You aren’t allowed to take pictures inside the galleries, but the rest of the house and grounds you are welcome to.
The house has a great library in it.
The library houses the Rembrandt painting:
If you look carefully at the painting, you can see the outline of an oval around the figure of Christ where thieves stole the painting and cut it out in the late 1920s. The piece was later recovered and repaired – and was then purchased by the Hyde family to come to NY.
There is a beautiful solarium type of room. When the Hydes lived there, the windowed ceiling could be opened up to allow rain to come in and water the plants. There is a drain in the floor under the wooden table.
Now that is all enclosed, of course. The second floor also overlooks this room:
Definitely my favorite room in the whole house. Or really, it should be called a mansion, I think.
The Hydes were collectors of all periods of art. This is a fantastic fireplace in what I think might be a dining room?
One of the bedrooms:
Lots of masterpieces are on the walls. This is a Winslow Homer work:
The music room:
Interesting tidbit – the piano is from 1900 and is pretty much the “newest” item in the music room.
Off in the corner is a Rubens painting – Head of a Moor:
It’s pretty amazing to have these pieces so accessible and representative works by so many masters.
A lovely piece of stained glass in one of the stairwell windows:
It was really nice to spend an afternoon here. We are lucky to have so many cultural opportunities available to us.
Today’s pink picture is from the music parlor. These pink chairs are from around 1500!
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Fantastic Tour Lori. Thanks so much! Impressionist painting is one of my favorite too.. Hugs! deb
Lori, what a great blog post. I loved it. Mary in Cincinnati
Hello there! Thank you for the tour.
I still think of you and pink items in October. ?
Catching up! Its definitely fall here, which always motivates me to clean up the garden. And to be able to visit such a fantastic museum in your own town is great!
I just love this type of thing. Thank you for sharing!
What a neat place to have near you. I also enjoyed all the classic paintings in the beautiful home.
Thanks!
What a cool looking house. I like the art outside and the Moor painting.