VIEW EXHIBITS IN THE FHK GALLERY FROM FORMER YEARS.
View This year’s Annual Exhibit.
Felt Replica of "Half Moon" by Susan Basch
As part of New York State’s Quadricentennial celebration, 10 artists were invited to create contemporary responses to memorabilia from the 1909 Hudson-Fulton observance. The mixed media exhibit was curated by FHK Board Member
A retrospective of Joseph Tubby (1821-1896), a nineteenth century Kingston artist noted for his paintings of local landscapes was featured in the Friends of Historic Kingston Gallery for the 2008 season. The exhibit featured some of Tubby’s finest landscapes that depict scenes of Kingston, Esopus and the Rondout Creek, and include streets. churches and buildings that can still be seen today.
The 2007 exhibit featured a collection of photographs by Santino Rovereto taken of “Mom and Pop” stores throughout Kingston in the early 1980s. It also included 60 photographs of “Mom and Pop” stores reproduced from real estate listings of the 1950′s, urban renewal photos of stores slated to be demolished by urban renewal in the 1970, and information on store owners as far back as the 1930′s compiled by City of Kingston Historian abd FHK Board Member Edwin M. Ford.
Photo and film footage feature local troops departing for World War II and the homefront heroes. The core of the exhibit featured three scrapbooks compiled by Kingston resident Anna Norton Dederick (deceased) and containing more than 5,000 photos and articles from the Daily Freeman about local servicemen. The contents were preserved by FHK on microfilm and presented to the Kingston Area Library so the public can search for information.
The retrospective featured more than 20 works by Kingston artist Julia Dillon (1834-1918), noted for her floral paintings. The exhibit brought to fruition an aspiration of many years to show the work of this remarkable woman whose intellect and courage took her far beyond the constraints of the time and society into which she was born.