Friday, June 26, 2026

This Evening in Kinderhook

Today, Friday, June 26, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., there is an opening reception for Rolling Hills and Gracious Fields: Columbia County Painters of the Hudson River School at the Columbia County Historical Society Museum and Library, 5 Albany Avenue, Kinderhook.

John Bunyan Bristol (1826-1909), The Range, c. 1860, CCHS Collection

The exhibition presents a collection of 19th-century artists from Columbia County, including John Bunyan Bristol, George Augustus McKinstry, Cuyler Williams, Calvin Van Deusen, the Parton brothers, and Robert Fulton Ludlow, and explores the relationship between artistic identity and regional transformation at a pivotal moment in American history. The artists in the exhibition contributed to the Hudson River School movement, painting the landscapes they knew intimately.

The exhibition will be on view from June 27 through January 8, 2027. For more information, click here.

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