The Landscape of Memory explores a singular artistic vision through the Museum’s extensive collection of works by Frank C. Eckmair. An internationally recognized printmaker, Eckmair has an intimate affinity for the quiet landscape of rural central New York. His subjects are its farm fields, stone walls, abandoned homes, and old barns.
Through memory and direct observation, Eckmair has created a poignant body of work that invites us to contemplate this historic and beautiful region. It is filled with, as he says, “many things not to be forgotten.”
More Eckmair prints and other New York landscapes can be seen in the exhibitions Not Just Another Pretty Place and Wish You Were Here in the West Gallery and Corridor.
Twenty-Five Years in June (Printer's Proof), 1967
Fall of the Year, 1973
Original Block for Tree
Untitled (Tree) (Artist's Proof), 1972
Auction, c. 1960
Evening in October (No designation), 1966
Original Block for All the Years, 1966
All the Years, 1966
Original Block for There Was a Time
There Was a Time, 1967
A Memory of Fall
The Fence Line/Gateway, 1976
Hillside (Artist's Proof), 1962
Country Yard (Artist’s Proof), 1971
Back Country
House on the Hill (Artist's Proof), 1971
Abandoned (Artist's Proof), 1972
Estate (Artist’s Proof), 1970
Boatyard
Parkside, 1963
August Days
Summer Heat
Out Buildings
Morning Haze
Countryside (Artist's Proof), 1965
Silence For a Time (Artist's Proof), 1969
Tomorrow for 30 Years, 1970
Morris Garage, 1961
All Opposed to Pancakes...., 1966
The Hallway, 1960
Quietly Into Night (Final Proof), 1966
We & Worlds....
Untitled (Alphabet), c. 1990
Ito, c. 1959
Lake Side (Proof), c. 1962-63
The Stairs, 1959
Machinery (Proof 4)
The Early Years (Artist's Proof)
Dream Last Night, 1968
Under the Hill, c. 1975
Interior Stairway (Artist's Proof),1963
Official Wind (Final Proof)
City’s Edge, 1962-63
South Mountain
The Path, 1959
Early for Winter (Artist's Proof)
In a Minute There Is Time, c. 1960
Drifting, 1963
Rah, 1960
Untitled
Crossing, 1961-62
Inchon, c. 1959
My Father Wanted Me To Be An Engineer, 1961
Legislative Seal
The Procession
Judge Penitent, 1969-1971
End of the Procession