Hyde Collection. The Hyde Collection is an art museum in the city of Glens Falls in Upstate New York.
The collections were endowed by the Hyde family. The museum is housed in a historic refurbished early twentieth-century residence, the Hyde House, located at 161 Warren Street in Glens Falls, New York, a building that is listed on the U.S.
National Register of Historic Places. Founded by Louis and Charlotte Hyde, the collection contains historic furniture, books, paintings, sculptures and pottery.
Now expanded with many modern additions, the museum, while relatively small and off the beaten track contains an impressive and broad collection including Italian Renaissance and eighteenth-century French antiques, and works by Botticelli, El Greco, van Dyck, Ingres, Raphael, Rembrandt, Rubens, Tintoretto, Cézanne, Degas, Matisse, Picasso, Renoir, and van Gogh. In addition, works by important American artists including Eakins, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Ryder, and Whistler are also present.
Charlotte Pruyn Hyde established a trust in 1952 that dedicated her home and her extensive art collection to the community. The Trust Agreement also set forth the future mission of the Museum. Charlotte Hyde's vision, as stated in the Trust, was for the trustees to establish and maintain a museum for the exhibition of art objects.and to promote and cultivate the study and improvement of the fine arts, for the ed
The collections were endowed by the Hyde family. The museum is housed in a historic refurbished early twentieth-century residence, the Hyde House, located at 161 Warren Street in Glens Falls, New York, a building that is listed on the U.S.
National Register of Historic Places. Founded by Louis and Charlotte Hyde, the collection contains historic furniture, books, paintings, sculptures and pottery.
Now expanded with many modern additions, the museum, while relatively small and off the beaten track contains an impressive and broad collection including Italian Renaissance and eighteenth-century French antiques, and works by Botticelli, El Greco, van Dyck, Ingres, Raphael, Rembrandt, Rubens, Tintoretto, Cézanne, Degas, Matisse, Picasso, Renoir, and van Gogh. In addition, works by important American artists including Eakins, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Ryder, and Whistler are also present.
Charlotte Pruyn Hyde established a trust in 1952 that dedicated her home and her extensive art collection to the community. The Trust Agreement also set forth the future mission of the Museum. Charlotte Hyde's vision, as stated in the Trust, was for the trustees to establish and maintain a museum for the exhibition of art objects.and to promote and cultivate the study and improvement of the fine arts, for the ed
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