UTICA — The Munson Museum of Art, 310 Genesee St., celebrates some of New York State’s most famous landscapes with two new exhibits. “Views of New York: Wilderness and Waters” is a collection of works depicting the areas around the Hudson and Mohawk River valleys.

“Trenton Falls: Stilled Waters | Still Here” brings focus to Native relationships with the local landscape through a focus on the art of Trenton Falls. The exhibitions are free and open to the public through the fall. Featuring works produced over two centuries in diverse mediums and styles, both exhibitions offer the chance to explore the rich beauty of landscape art.

“Views of New York” was created from the museum’s collections of both recent additions and art purchased in the late 1800s by Munson’s founders. Artists who have become familiar favorites find new company in local and contemporary artists interested in the same subjects. Some works, including selections from William Henry Bartlett’s famous 1840 publication “American Scenery,” are on display for the first time.

Many artists share not only subject matter but also social, cultural and spiritual connections to the wilderness and waters around them. Museum visitors will see the surprising continuity and dynamic changes to New York landscape art over the past 200 years. Trenton Falls was a major tourist destination between 1825 and about 1895 when a dam project marked the end of the “golden age” of the site.

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