Highlights: American Masterworks From the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute: Celebrating an Educational Alliance with Pratt Institute by Staff from Antiques & Fine Art magazine

For six weeks beginning on november 16, Hirschl & Adler Galleries will host a significant number of American artworks from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute (MWPAI), Utica, New York. The opportunity arose for this special exhibition because the MWPAI wanted to showcase its holdings in New York as a way of celebrating its close educational affiliation with Brooklyn's Pratt Institute. (Students can now take the first two years of a BFA on MWPAI's beautiful campus and finish the last two years at Pratt in Brooklyn.) Dr. Thomas F. Schutte, President of Pratt Institute said, "I'm delighted that we are able to celebrate this academic collaboration by featuring some of America's greatest artists at one of Manhattan's most esteemed galleries."
The breadth of the MWPAI collections will be represented at Hirschl & Adler Galleries by more than seventy works. Never before has such a large and important part of MWPAI's renowned collection of American paintings, sculpture, miniatures, works on paper, and furniture been exhibited for an extended period of time in a single Manhattan venue. Highlights include Thomas Cole's The Voyage of Life (1839-1840), a quartet of monumental allegorical paintings executed for New York banker and philanthropist Samuel Ward Sr. This will be the first time they've been seen in NYC since the early 1980s when they were on display at the New-York Historical Society. Also on display will be works by Maurice Prendergast, Charles Burchfield, Edward Hopper, Jackson Pollack, and Arshile Gorky.