Adirondack Explorer

Opening the art vault

For nearly 60 years the Adirondack Experience has been collecting North Country contributions to the rich canon of American art. In the museum's vaults are hundreds of canvases, some by famous artists, like Thomas Cole or Harold Weston, some by less well known but nonetheless significant regional artists; some from the early nineteenth century, some fresh off the easels of contemporary artists.

But until now the museum (ADKX) has been limited in terms of how much it could

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