After touring the Baseball Hall of Fame, we travelled a short distance north along the Otsego Lake to the Fenimore Art Museum on land formerly owned by American writer, James Fenimore Cooper. The property was later purchased by Singer Manufacturing Company heir, Edward Severin Clark, whose brothers are Stephen Carlton Clark, who founded the Baseball Hall of Fame, and Robert Sterling Clark of The Clark in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Upon Edward’s death, Stephen donated his late brother’s 1933 mansion to The New York State Historical Commission, which led to the establishment of the Fenimore Art Museum. Small world.

The Fenimore Art Museum holds a broad selection of American Art spanning many artists and mediums, including but not limited to: American Folk Art, Photography, Native American Art, and literally hundreds of American paintings, both historic and comtemporary. We were delighted to discover paintings by Impressionists, Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot, and American Masters such as Frederick Church and Thomas Moran (of Grand Canyon fame), as well as new, contemporary artists. Sadly, Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Brown and Tan Leaves” was not on display. If you visit Cooperstown, please do not miss this dynamic and fascinating museum of American art!

If you are traveling in an RV, please note there is plenty of parking in the adjacent Cooperstown Trolley Yellow Lot – just a short walk to the Fenimore Art Museum. You may also consider visiting the Fenimore Farm and Country Village which is across the street from the Fenimore Art Museum. Unfortunately, we didn’t have time to see the farm on this trip.