Hudson River Museum

Yonkers, New York

914-963-4550

Photo: Quesada/Burke

http://www.hrm.org

• Living with Landscapes: Paintings from Private Collections (10/25/01)
• Americans Outdoors: Seasonal Prints by Winslow Homer (with selected wall text) (7/5/01)
• A River Journey: Paintings of the Hudson by Don Nice (9/24/00)
• Capture the Wind: Racing Yachts & Westchester (8/14/00)
• Fun City: Celebrating the Life of Ralph Fasanella (5/21/00)
• Open Air Sketching: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Drawings in the Albany Institute of History and Art (5/9/00)
• A Community Collects: The Bronxville Public Library (2/7/00)
• Singular Voices/Voices of Many: Photographs from the Sixties by James Hinton (12/31/99)
• Art and Nature: The Hudson River School (10/14/99)
• "Animal Artifice" On View At The Hudson River Museum (9/20/99)
• Red Grooms, "The Bookstore" and The Late Seventies (6/10/99)
• Flights of Fancy: Paintings by Hunt Slonem (5/27/99)
• Second Donation by Joyce and Leonard Greene to Hudson River Museum Glenview Campaign (3/2/99)
• Wind, Water, Fire: Natural Elements in American Art, 1820-1900 (12/31/98)
• Family Ties: Needlework by Denise Allen (12/8/98)
• Drip, Blow, Burn: Forces of Nature in Contemporary Art (12/8/98)
• The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge (10/22/98)
• Getting From Here To There (10/18/98)
• Figuratively Speaking: Paintings by Katherine Hu Fan (9/15/98)
• Making Waves: Sculpture by Sarah Haviland (9/15/98)
• Stone and Steel: Bridges by Bascove (9/15/98)
• Where Land Meets River (9/2/98)

Founded in 1919, The Hudson River Museum imaginatively interweaves themes of 19th and 20th-century American art, history and science in changing programs and exhibitions. Overlooking the Hudson River and Palisades in northwest Yonkers, the Museum actively reaches out to broaden the cultural horizons of its visitors with a special emphasis on families. The Museum celebrates the artistic legacy and cultural diversity of the Lower Hudson River Valley using an impressive collections of paintings (including Hudson River landscapes), sculpture, decorative arts, costumes and photographs.

Hudson River Museum is a cultural complex of modern Galleries, the National Register Site Glenview Mansion (1876), the Joyce Greene Education Center and Westchester County's only public planetarium(The Andrus Planetarium with its state-of-the-art Zeiss M1015 Star Projector.

Complementing any visit is a stop in The Red Grooms Gift Shop. Commissioned by the Museum and constructed in 1979 by Pop Artist Red Grooms, this whimsical display bursting with color and imaginative details is both art installation and gift shop.

Right: Glenview Mansion, 1878, Front Facade, Photo: Frederick Charles; Lower Right: Dining Room, Glenview Mansion, Photo: Quesada/Burke; Left: The Red Grooms Gift Shop, Photo: Quesada/Burke

With a dramatic Hudson River view, The Hudson River Cafe serves lunch, snacks, and dinner at special events and is available for every catering need from weddings to corporate events.

Hudson River Museum serves a growing constituency of over 100,000 visitors each year. Many are families, seniors and over 22,000 schoolchildren, from the tri-state metropolitan region, while other travel greater distances as tourists. Changing exhibitions are enhanced by public programs including weekly activities for families, many Planetarium Star Shows, Wednesday afternoon programs for seniors, concerts, all-day community festivals, and many other activities. Collaborations with local cultural, educational, environmental and service organizations have resulted in effective and well-attended programs.

The Hudson River Museum is located at 511 Warburton Ave in Yonkers NY. See museum's website for hours and fees.

Directions:

From Westchester:

• Take I-287 West to 87 South.
• **Exit Saw Mill Parkway. Exit 9 Executive Blvd. Follow to the end. Left onto Broadway. Next right onto Odell Ave. Follow to the end. Left onto Warburton. Museum is 1.3 miles on the right.

From New York City:

• West Side Highway to Henry Hudson Parkway to Saw Mill Parkway. See **

From Rockland County:

• 87 South over Tappan Zee Bridge. See **

From Connecticut:

• Merritt Parkway or I-95 South to 287 West. See Westchester directions.

By Train:

• Metro North Hudson Line to Yonkers Station.

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