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Thursday-Sunday: 10am-12pm (seniors only) and 1-5pm (everyone)

HIgh School Juried Show Award Winners Announced

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OUR Re-opening Plan Welcome Back! p.7

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SUMMER 2020 In this Issue 4

Message from the CEO

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The Hyde’s Re-Opening Plan

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Museums Around the World

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High School Juried Show Award Winners

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Behind the Lens: J. S. Wooley

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Conversation with Art Advisor Glenn Long

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Behind the Scenes During Lockdown

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Swiping Right

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Exhibitions Update

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Ask the Experts

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Virtual Community and Programs

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Message to Hyde Supporters

Contributing to this issue The Hyde Collection Ginevra Fisk, Marketing Coordinator & Design Specialist Jonathan Canning, Director of Curatorial Affairs & Programming Jenny Hutchinson, Curator of Museum Education & Programming Saratoga Living Abby Tegnelia, CEO of Saratoga Living Will Levith, Editorial Director Natalie Moore, Managing Editor Morgan Fechter, Staff Writer Annette Quarrier, Ad Director (cover image), juror’s Choice, Brooke Patnode, A Pop of Yellow, Glens Falls High School

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MESSAGE FROM THE CEO First and foremost, I hope that everyone in The Hyde Collection’s orbit—whether that be our individual or corporate members, donors, trustees, sponsors or many annual visitors—have remained safe and healthy throughout the last few months. The COVID19 crisis has transformed us, forcing us indoors and compelling us to find new ways to live our lives.

Like so many nonprofit organizations and businesses in our region, The Hyde has been hit hard by COVID-19 and the related economic turbulence. And like so many others, we’ve had to drastically scale back our plans and re-focus our priorities on what’s essential. While we’re beginning to see some light at the end of the tunnel, especially as we plan our re-opening, so much remains uncertain, unpredictable and undetermined.

Here’s the one thing that is certain—the way out of the crisis will present new economic realities and a slate of new challenges that we can’t yet begin to anticipate or fathom.

Arts and culture are the lifeblood of our region. Artists, and the cross-cultural conversation that happens in places like galleries, museums and theaters, play a powerful role in social change. Art helps us communicate, helps us see, helps us interpret the world around us. The ability to step outside of one’s self, the ability to empathize with others, the ability to think critically and creatively, to problem-solve—these are traits our society needs more of these days, not less. In other words, art is not a luxury. It is essential.

We all know how fast things change, but at the moment, we are planning to re-open on August 1. We look forward to welcoming you back to Hyde House and the Education Wing, and to the opening of J. S. Wooley, Adirondack Photographer, in the Charles R. Wood Gallery. This exhibition showcases the region’s past, its talent, and its beauty—I can’t think of a more appropriate exhibition to launch as we welcome you back to the galleries. Plus, the Images of the People: Russian Lacquer Painting exhibition will now run through the rest of the and the 29th annual High School Juried Show, an exhibition in which we display 100 works by local students, has been running exclusively online.

And of course, there’s our permanent collection housed in the historic Hyde House.

It is hard to ask for support in this climate, but I wouldn’t be asking if it wasn’t truly needed to keep The Hyde Collection afloat. We hope you will consider becoming a member; or if you are a member, we hope you’ll consider increasing your membership.

We hope you’ll share this message with friends, family and colleagues who can help.

And I hope we will see you all at the Museum soon and often.

We are all in this together. Whether online or in person, my door remains open. Let me know what we can do to help you, serve you, make you proud to have The Hyde in your backyard.

I hope you and your loved ones stay safe, stay well and stay connected to The Hyde.

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Norman E. Dascher Jr. Chief Executive Officer

The Hyde’s

Re-opening plan The safety of our visitors and staff remains our number one priority.

Everyone at The Hyde Collection is thrilled to start welcoming visitors back to the Museum. Rest assured that we are following all of the guidelines and protocols from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Governor Andrew Cuomo’s New York Forward and Warren County. If you’re not feeling well, please delay your visit. (Please call our Admission Desk at 518-792-1761 ext. 350 to let them know you will not be able to make it in.)

We ask that everyone take their temperature the day of his/her visit.

Planning Your Visit Starting August 1, 2020 visits to The Hyde Collection will be by appointment only. Please book your visit on our website prior to arriving at the Museum, and arrive at least five minutes before your designated time. Guests should remain outside the Museum doors until the front desk area is clear of visitors, and wear a face mask upon entering. Upon arrival, Museum guests will receive an easy-to-follow tour route, with arrows and designated viewing areas marked on the floor to avoid the clustering of groups. Hand sanitizing stations will be located throughout the galleries. Audio tours and a rules and regulations guide will be provided upon check-in. You do not need to bring a printed ticket—just the confirmation number from your online reservation.

New Hours of Operation The Hyde is open four days a week, Thursday-Sunday.

10am-noon is reserved for seniors and high-risk individuals only.

The Museum closes between noon-1pm daily for cleaning.

1-5pm appointments are available to the general public.

11am is the last morning time slot we can schedule for an hour-long visit to make sure the guards have enough time to close the Museum for cleaning.

4pm is the last afternoon time slot to make sure all guest are out of the Museum in time for the 5pm closing.

For more information For more details about the re-opening and to reserve your visit online, please visit hydecollection.org. There we will have answers to frequentlly asked questions such as, “How will Museum Store payments be processed?” and “What is the refund policy if I can’t make my scheduled visit?”

We can’t wait to see you at The Hyde!

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MUSEUMS

around the world

Like The Hyde, New Orleans’ Ogden Museum of Southern Art doesn’t only have games for kids online. The Museum also hosts live adult art challenges inspired by works of Southern art on Instagram Live (@ogdenmuseum) every other Thursday!

Globally, museums have had to find creative ways to stay “open” during the COVID-19 pandemic. Let’s take a tour of some of the top online solutions.

The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. created a virtual museum, expertly using video to create 3-D views of stand-out exhibitions, including Degas at the Opéra. Visit nga.gov for an enthralling trip to the famous 19th-century Paris opera house, where Degas lovingly captured the ornate theater; glamorous musicians; and of course, his favorite, the lithe ballerinas.

Exhibitions from the Louvre’s Petite Gallerie are brought to life online (louvre.fr) as stunning 3-D art history lessons on such topics such as the rise of artists’ personal reputations in the Renaissance (Advent of the Artist), the connection between art and political power (Power Plays), and the importance of myths (Founding Myths).

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Fly through a digital scan of Sir John Soane’s Museum (soane.org) in London for a fantastic virtual gallery experience. You’ll explore two of the Museum’s most famous spaces: the Model Room in the Private Apartments, and the Sepulchral Chamber, home of the 3,000-year-old Sarcophagus of Seti I!

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High school juried show The show must go on . . . and it did!

Each year, high school students from counties across the Capital Region and North Country submit artwork for The Hyde’s High School Juried Show. The recent quarantine may have made a physical installation impossible, but that didn’t mean the students’ hard work went to waste. We are proud to say that this year’s High School Juried Show may have reached its largest audience yet.

View the entire digital exhibition online at hydecollection.org/exhibitions and visit our Facebook and YouTube channel for videos featuring student responses, advice from this year’s jurors and much more.

The following pages feature the award-winning artwork from the 2020 High School Juried Show. Congratulations to all the students in our community-The Hyde Collection could not be more proud!

(Left) Best in Show Chelsea Wright, Lifeguard Off-Duty, Minerva Central School

(Right) Curator’s Choice Michelle Villa, Peru, Glens Falls High School

(cover image) juror’s Choice Brooke Patnode, A Pop of Yellow, Glens Falls High School 10

Thoughts from juror Will Fowler “I was really impressed with the diversity and the different mediums that were used,” says graphic designer Will Fowler, owner/creative director of Sidekick Creative and one of three jurors for this year’s show, who actually participated in the show back when he was a student. “When I was in high school, it was a lot of traditional drawing and painting. It was really impressive to see all these different mediums and different disciplines that were represented in the show, like jewelry-making and sculpture and different digital formats.” One piece that was awarded honorable mention was “Something that’s really important about the Hyde show is that it gives students a sense of confidence, because it is this very professional, high-art realm of a museum that they’re getting into,” Fowler says. “It gives them a little bit of confidence to say, ‘Hey, I do have the chops to follow a creative path,’ whether that’s pursuing a major in college or just pursuing it as a hobby. Maybe it was something that they didn’t take too seriously and then they got to the Hyde show, and it gets them that extra push to realize that they could follow a creative path as a career. It definitely helped me realize that this is something that I could follow through with and see where it takes me in life.”

A special thank you goes out to the following sponsors: an anonymous donor, SUNY Adirondack, the Town of Queensbury, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

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(Above) juror’s Choice Judith Derrick, If Plastics Were Beautiful, Glens Falls High School

(Left) juror’s Choice Sophia Donaldson, Beach Day, Queensbury High School 12

(Above) honorable mention Kaleb Beaudoin, Flying High, Queensbury High School

(Left) honorable mention Kayla Monroe, Paper Dress, Queensbury High School 13

Thank you to all Healthcare workers, first responders and essential workers in the Capital Region for putting our communities first!

A special message brought to you by:

Rick Saunders, Agent

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behind the lens How did the J. S. Wooley: Adirondack Photographer exhibition come to be?

By Morgan Fechter

About a century after Wilton native J. S. Wooley (1867-1943) served as the official photographer for Silver Bay on Lake George, a fellow photographer was exploring a bookstore in Ballston Spa, where Wooley himself had a studio. “I picked up books and started reading, just trying to familiarize myself with what went on, trying to find where I was, what I was doing,” says Richard Timberlake, who had traveled to Upstate New York to find respite from the hectic pace of the city. He stumbled upon Wooley’s work, kicking off a fascination that would lead to the eventual publication of a coffee table book of images by the photographer, titled J. S. Wooley: Adirondack Photographer, in 2018.

The book, which includes more than 100 original photographs from the private collection of Bolton Landing collector Matt Finley, came together “through a combination of the perfect storm of the passions that I have for photography and for the Adirondacks,” says Timberlake, who served as the book’s editor. “The photographs reveal the scope of Wooley’s expertise and his keen eye for sweeping panoramas of the Adirondacks and studies of local architecture.”

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Above: J. S. Wooley (American 1867-1930), Guide Boats, Southern View from Sabbath Day Point, Lake George, ca 1909, vintage negative, contemporary print, Collection of Matt Finley.

Left: Jesse Sumner Wooley as a Young Photographer, Collection of Brookside Museum, Saratoga County Historical Society.

The August 1 grand re-opening of The Hyde also marks the premiere of the photography exhibition, J. S. Wooley: Adirondack Photographer. The exhibition, which is curated by Timberlake, along with Caroline Welsh, director emerita of the Adirondack Museum, will also include images that aren’t in the book.

Timberlake notes that Wooley’s photographs were printed only to the size of a postcard during his lifetime: Seeing the 24x36 inch images that will be displayed in the exhibition would have been a surreal experience for the late artist.

“It’s unique,” Timberlake says, “that 100 years later we can have this window to look back on and to preserve for future generations.”

J. S. Wooley: Adirondack Photographer will be on display at The Hyde Collection from August 1 through the fall season.

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A Conversation with

Glenn Long

The professional art advisor on bringing his exhibition to The Hyde.

By Will Levith

Glenn Long is the type of art enthusiast every museum dreams about—and he’s proud of it. “It’s normal for me, wherever I am, to contact the director or curator of the local museum and make an appointment,” Long says. He did just that with The Hyde Collection’s Director of Curatorial Affairs and Programming, Jonathan Canning, and what came out of the conversation laid the groundwork for the exhibition Images of the People: Russian Lacquer Painting, which is currently on display at The Hyde, as well as virtually, on hydecollection.org.

Long, who makes his home in Hebron, NY, isn’t just any old art lover. He served as the Chairman of Education at the Baltimore Museum of Art in the ’70s, and since ’81, Long’s been a professional art advisor to museums, governments and organizations, as well as a fine art appraiser. And it was in ’82, while living in Miami, that Long first came across the Russian lacquer paintings that are now on display at The Hyde.

He ended up acquiring a number of them throughout the decade, some directly from the artists themselves with whom he became friends during visits to their place of origin, the small Russian village of Palekh. We recently chatted with Long about it.

What initially drew you to the Russian lacquer paintings?

They’re phenomenal works of art! They’re just drop-dead with their quality and complexity. These were the best artists in Palekh at the time. The medium itself is based on a hundreds-year-old tradition of icon painting there.

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Long is the art enthusiast behind the stunning Images of the People: Russian Lacquer Painting.

How did you acquire the collection?

This collection is the result of pieces that I purchased from the artists to resell, or pieces that I just held onto that the artists either gave me or found for me.

What are your favorite pieces in the collection?

There is a piece in the exhibition called The Blacksmiths, which is by the former head of the Palekh artists and was given to me. The most famous one is the large red casket [scenes from The Lay of Prince Igor’s Campaign], because there are only two of them, a red one and a black one, that this artist did. The black one is in the State Russian Museum of Art in Palekh.

What do you think the most important aspect of your collection is?

It is, in my view, as close as you can get to what is essential to artistic creativity. The pieces come completely from the heart and soul of the artists. Some people refer to them as “nice lacquer boxes.” Well, they’re not boxes, they’re paintings. They’re works of art.

Why did you choose The Hyde for the paintings’ exhibition?

The Hyde’s exhibition needs are very well suited to these kinds of objects. Also, there’s an Old Master collection at The Hyde. So, to me, it’s a perfect fit.

Detail: Valentin Petrovich Fedotov (Russian, b. 1935), Ilya Murometz, 1993, egg tempera on small pyramid-form lidded lacquered papier-maché box, 4 ¾ by 7 7/8 by 1 ¼ inches, Private Collection, Photograph: mclaughlinphoto.com

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behind the scenes during lockdown The Hyde staff kept busy while the Museum was closed.

By Abby Tegnelia The saying “what’s old is new again” now applies to The Hyde. After being closed for several months during the pandemic, the Museum is returning better than ever thanks to all the work that the dedicated staff completed during the unexpected break.

“There is so much that goes on behind the scenes that the general public may not know about,” says Special Events Coordinator Kayla Romanowski. Romanowski stayed busy during the shutdown by taking more than 60 classes and completing more than 100 hours’ worth of extra training, including webinars on event planning and fundraising, and classes on Raiser’s Edge, The Hyde’s donor database. “This is something I couldn’t have done if I were working onsite, but it is crucial to have this training to help our organization with its fundraising goals,” she says. “We’ve always worn multiple hats in our organization, but since working remotely, we’ve come to appreciate the amount of work each department accomplishes daily, weekly and monthly.”

Jonathan Canning, the Museum’s Director of Curatorial Affairs and Programming, says that although the break from welcoming in admiring guests actually behooves the art itself (“visitors inevitably bring an increase in temperature and moisture and track in dust,” he says), not having guests does go against the point of having a museum.

“No doubt,” he quips, “the vainer works of art miss visitors’ admiring glances and intakes of breath.”

Museum supporters weren’t around to take in the impressive pieces, so Canning was able to take a closer look at them during the crisis. “It gave me time to concentrate on our collection over temporary exhibitions,” he says, “to research pieces, and to get to know them better.”

Meanwhile, Museum Educator Keri Dudek found inspiration at home while isolated with her family. “My children have been able to be part of the process of creating family programs,” she says of creating artwork with her little ones for the Museum’s programs Tour for Tots and Artful Afternoons, which migrated online when The Hyde shut its doors, plus a new series on Facebook called Family Friday Live.

“In fact, the Museum’s newly expanded online resources and digital outreach, which includes video and audio offerings, received plenty of positive feedback,” says Jenny Hutchinson, Curator of Education & Programming.

“The digital world was a completely new endeavor, yet it had always been part of the strategic plan,” she says. “We had just never had the ability to focus on developing it.

This experience showed me that people were not only thinking of us, but also that they needed us, too. Our education department had never led online programming or used video or audio editing software before, so we learned how to use that software and at the same time, changed the curriculum to better fit a digital platform. As we continue to navigate these uncertain times, I’m hopeful that our community and audiences will continue to feel as though our Museum is there for them. We need your support, too, and no act of support is too small. The only way to get through this is together.”

When loyal Hyde supporters return to the Museum, they will notice some of the improvements made while they were away, such as the much-anticipated new sound and projection systems in the Helen Froehlich Auditorium.

Hutchinson says whether people continue to enjoy The Hyde virtually or in person, everyone benefits in the end. “The greatest power of art and creativity,” she says, “is that it is universally transformative.”

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Swiping right

Abridged from the Museum’s Blog

More than 500 years before Tinder and the Internet, portraits were used during aristocratic Renaissance courtship.

Henry VIII’s misalliance with Anne of Cleves is perhaps the most famous story of Tinder-style matchmaking in the 16th century. It started after the death of his third queen, Jane Seymour, when the king kicked off the hunt for a new bride. The three choices on the international marriage market for a king considered a heretic in Catholic Europe were the 16-year-old, Danish-born and recently widowed Christina, Duchess of Milan; or one of the daughters of the Duke of Cleves, Anne, 24, or Amelia, 22.

King Henry sought diplomatic reports and portraits on all of them. Christina had no wish to marry him, leaving the less independent-minded Cleves sisters. The king’s ambassador, Christopher Mont, traveled to Düsseldorf, Germany to meet them and returned to London with recent portraits of the two sisters by none other than Bartholomaeus Bruyn the Elder (whose work is pictured on the next page).

Henry was not yet convinced, however, and wanted one of his own men to paint Anne. The resulting portrait, by Hans Holbein the Younger, is now at the Louvre. With a few artistic tricks, Holbein airbrushed Anne’s flaws centuries before singles relied on smartphone filters. While painting her face, Holbein reduced the prominence of her rather large nose, and he smoothed away the small pox-induced pockmarks that marred her face. The portrait also showed that Anne had a fine figure and regal bearing. King Henry fell in love.

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Detail: Hans Holbein the Younger (German, 1497-1543), Anne de Cleves, 1539, parchment on canvas (25½ x 18¾ in.) Musée du Louvre, Paris, France, INV. 1348. Wikimedia Commons.

Alas, Henry fell right out of love with Anne the minute he saw the real her.

The wedding went ahead for diplomatic reasons, but the displeased king quickly sued for divorce. Anne and her ex-husband later became friends, and she outlived him and his last two wives.

Potential suitors had long exchanged beguiling pictures of themselves during courtship, including this rather flirty portrait of a single aristocrat, which was painted in the early 1500s by Bartholomaeus Bruyn the Elder.

The pearls on her headdress reveal a privileged upbringing.

The gold thread embroidering her blouse is indicative of her family’s wealth.

Uncovered braids were the style of virtuous, eligible maids.

(Married women covered their hair; only girls wore it loose.)

No ring means she is looking for a husband.

Her impractically long, draped sleeves signal that she doesn’t have to work.

Detail: Bartholomaeus (Barthel/Bartel) Bruyn, the Elder, (German, 1493 – 1555), Portrait of a Lady, ca. 1535, oil on panel (23 1/2 × 29 in.). The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York, Bequest of Charlotte Pruyn Hyde, 1971.11. Photo credit: Joseph Levy.

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EXHIBITIONS IMAGES OF THE PEOPLE: RUSSIAN lacquer painting August 1, 2020-January 3, 2021

High school juried show 2020 Available to view online only

J. S. WOOLEY, Adirondack photographer August 1, 2020-January 3, 2021

The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art: Works on Paper January 31-April 25, 2021

High school juried show 2021 (Dates to be announced)

Transformations: the art of john van alstine June 13-September 21, 2021

As part of our effort to keep the community safe, the Board of Trustees has decided to postpone the 2020 Gala and Annual Hyde Luncheon events.

Please save the date for a gala on September 25, 2021 and join us in honoring Tom and Sally Hoy.

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Details: Nikolai Pavlovich Lopatin (Russian, b. 1947), Scenes from The Lay of Prince Igor’s Campaign, 1989, egg tempera and lacquer, 9 ½ x 10 x 7 1/4 in. Private Collection Photo by Jim McLaughlin. Brooke Patnode, A Pop of Yellow, Photograph, Glens Falls High School.

J. S. Wooley (American 1867-1943) Lake George from the Ft Wm Henry Hotel French Mountain, no date, vintage negative, contemporary print, Collection of Matt Finley.

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ASK the EXPERTS Visitors ask Museum staff questions about The Hyde, the art and where it all began!

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How do you know when a work of art is forged?

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You always have to be wary of a forgery, a work that was manufactured to deliberately fool an expert into thinking it is by a more famous artist and therefore more valuable than it really is.

Making attributions and properly identifying a work can be highly contentious and litigious. The Hyde Collection has several works that scholars no longer believe were created by the artists that founders Louis and Charlotte Hyde thought they were at time of purchase. It’s too late now for the Museum to do anything about it, but in her lifetime there were occasions when Mrs. Hyde sent a work back and got a credit from the dealer.

Henricus Antonius (Han) Van Meegeren, Girl with a Blue Bow, ca. 1924, gelatin-glue medium and pigment over seventeenth-century painting fragment (21 x 18 in), The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York, Gift of Charlotte Pruyn Hyde, 1971.56. Photo credit: Joseph Levy.

Conservators detected the use of synthetic pigments in this painting, so it is clearly not from the 17th century.

Nowadays, scientific analysis can help tremendously in identifying forgeries, particularly if materials were used that didn’t exist at the time the piece was supposedly created. But the best forgers are careful to use old canvases, paint according to old formulae or exploit scientific weaknesses to fool top scientists.

One can’t always trust a signature!

School of Titian, Portrait of Doge Petrus Lando, 15481577, oil on canvas (61 x 54 x 4 in.) The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York, Gift of Charlotte Pruyn Hyde, 1971.50.

Photo credit: Joseph Levy.

Purchased as a Titian, we now know this portrait was not, in fact, the work of the iconic 16th-century Italian painter.

We do know, however, that it is the only known copy from the period of Titian’s famous painting of this Doge, which burned in a fire at the Doge’s Palace in 1577.

If a work of art is unsigned, a curator attempts to identify the artist by looking at a piece’s size and condition and asking a number of questions through a process called “visual analysis.” What type of work of art is it? What is the work made of?

What medium has been used and on what sort of ground was it executed? Then he or she might move on to explore the subject matter. Stylistically, does it look like the work of a certain style or period or a well-known artist’s work?

Having asked all of these questions, a curator can then determine if the answers to them make sense. If they do, he or she can then deduce a justifiable attribution or identity for the artist.

Still, it can sometimes be difficult to be definitive, and so we often qualify the identification with phrases like “attributed to,” which means the identification is an educated guess; “workshop of,” which means it’s very close to the artist’s hand or style but it’s not so accomplished and so could be by his workshop; and “school of” or “in the manner of,” which means it looks like a particular artist’s style but we can’t be sure it was done when the artist was alive.

Do you have a burning question about the Museum you would like us to answer?

The next time you visit The Hyde, ask the front desk for an Ask the Experts form!

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MORE to explore

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TWITTER HydeCollection

virtual tour A new virtual tour of Hyde House launched on The Hyde’s website July 1. Explore each room and get an up close look at the artwork by visiting hydecollection.org/virtual-tour/.

Facebook hyde Collection group Hundreds of art lovers have joined this new, private Facebook Group since the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown. Together, we have built a community in which to share our creativity, inspiration and love of art.

Request to join the group today.

Museum blog Find recent Curator’s Thoughts and art news on the Museum Blog located under the “About” tab on the Hyde’s homepage.

creative challenges All past challenges can be found on Facebook and Instagram by searching #HydeCreativeChallenge.

Stay tuned for our next challenge announcement!

youtube channel Search “The Hyde Collection” on YouTube to watch videos on exhibitions, family activities and Hyde Creative Challenges that were posted during COVID-19.

Hyde BOOK CLUB Zoom Book Discussion dates: August 4 and 18 at 6:30pm Book selections will be announced soon. Please email kdudek@hydecollection.org and keep an eye on our social media and website for more info.

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MUSEUM Games Curator of Museum Education Jenny Hutchinson introduces a new online game each week featuring work from the permanent collection, such as “Fill the Frame” and “Guess the Silhouette.“

Family friday live!

Join us Friday mornings for Family Friday Live on Facebook. This program, led

by Museum Educator Keri Dudek, features activities for the whole family, and is a great way to get creative and spend some time learning together!

Mountain Mysteries Children’s workshop August 3-7, 10-14, 17-21, and 24-28 Solve mysteries using the photographs of J. S Wooley and other evidence found in interactive digital locations. Children will be giving a file of clues at the beginning of each week. Participants will meet as a group for a live Zoom demo of an art activity to be completed at through the week. Supplies kits are available. Head to hydecollection.org for more information.

audio guide

Oil painting by Susan Miller, Hyde Facebook Group

The Hyde’s Audio Guide does more than provide audio tours on your mobile phone as you tour the Museum-it also contains activities and permanent collection highlights. To access, text “Hyde” to 565-12 and follow the prompt. (Message and data rates may apply.)

Copy-cat photos of works in The Hyde’s permanent collection were submitted by our Facebook followers!

Detail: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French, 1780 – 1867) Study for the Odyssey, 1826-1827, 1866, oil on canvas mounted on panel, 9 7/16 x 7 3/8 in.

The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York, Bequest of Charlotte Pruyn Hyde. 1971.25. Photography by Joseph Levy.

Support for family programs provided in part by: The Touba Family Foundation

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THANK YOU Director’s circle members Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Albern Mr. James Amell Ms. Edith Brown Astruc Mr. & Mrs. Bernard R. Brown Mr. Thomas Clark Michael & Kathryn Clarke Ellen-Deane Cummins Mr. Gary Dake & Ms. Aimee Taylor Mr. Ronald Davies & Ms. Annette McMurray Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Detmer Mr. & Mrs. Thomas DiCiurcio Mrs. Nancy Eustance Mr. Werner L. Feibes Mark E. Frost & Sandra J. Hutchinson Mr. D. Michael & Mrs. Connie Gerarde Niles Dr. & Mrs. Robert W. Hahm Mr. & Mrs. Michael Hayes Mr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Hoy Dr. Peter G. & Dianne M. Kansas Mr. & Ms. Christopher Klapper

Dr. & Mrs. Vincent D. Koh Mrs. Tupper Limbert Ms. Beverley Mastrianni Ms. Christine L. McDonald Mr. & Mrs. George Morris Mr. & Mrs. Robert Nemer Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Newell Ms. Victoria Palermo & Dr. John Rugge Mr. & Mrs. Frank Pusateri Mr. & Mrs. Alan E. Redeker Franklin W. & Mary W. Renz Mr. & Mrs. Alan R. Rhodes Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Ruesch Mr. & Mrs. Karl E. Seitz Mrs. Elisabeth A. Smith Ms. Elizabeth Sobol & Mr. Jorge Gomez Mr. & Mrs. Paul Stuart Mrs. Charnell H. Thompson Drs. Jacquiline & Riza Touba Mr. & Mrs. Charles Wait

To become a Director’s Circle member and attend our exclusive events, contact Chelsea at 518-792-1761, ext. 349, or csears@hydecollection.org.

A SPECIAL MESSAGE TO HYDE SUPPORTERS Summer is here, and The Hyde is scheduled to re-open to the public on August 1. We must not forget, however, that smaller art museums such as The Hyde Collection continue to struggle even in the best of times. Now, amidst a worldwide pandemic and the untold suffering of people around the globe, we face an even greater challenge. Due to the impact of COVID-19, one in three small museums could permanently close by the end of 2020. The Hyde’s CEO, Norman Dascher, addressed this issue in a letter to our members and the public posted to our website this past July.

Postponing our two primary fundraisers until 2021 because of the pandemic has caused a substantial budget deficit for 2020. Fortunately, our chosen honorees for this year have magnanimously agreed to stay with us and be honored in 2021. Edith Brown Astrue and Sally Bixby Defty will be honored at next year’s Annual Summer Luncheon, and Tom and Sally Hoy at the Fall Gala. We are grateful for their dedication and support and will announce both dates in our Holiday Digest.

Mrs. Hyde gifted her beautiful home and worldclass art collection to be enjoyed by one and all. In order to keep this precious Museum alive, please consider making a donation.

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