The Historic Woodstock Art Colony: The Arthur A. Anderson Collection

May 06, 2024 @ 7:00pm - 8:30pm

The collection includes 1,500 artworks-including paintings, lithographs, sculpture and works on paper – from the historic Woodstock Art Colony that collector Arthur A. Anderson donated to the New York State Museum in 2017. This extraordinary collection, which represents a body of work that together shaped art and culture in New York and forms a history of national and international significance.

Long before the music festival in 1969 made Woodstock, New York, famous, it was home to what is considered America’s first intentionally created, year-round arts colony—founded in 1902 and still thriving more than 100 years later.

Collecting the remarkable range of work produced there was Anderson’s focus for three decades, resulting in the largest comprehensive assemblage of its type. The artists represented in it reflect the diversity of those who came to Woodstock, including Birge Harrison, Konrad Cramer, George Bellows, Eugene Speicher, Peggy Bacon, Rolph Scarlett and Yasuo Kuniyoshi, among many others. Anderson donated his entire collection—some 1,500 objects by almost 200 artists—to the New York State Museum.

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