The Hunterdon Art Museum, previously known as the Hunterdon Art Center and the Hunterdon Museum of Art, is located in a historic stone mill at 7 Lower Center Street in

Clinton, New Jersey Clinton is a town in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. It is located on the South Branch of the Raritan River in the Raritan Valley region. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the town's population was 2,719,Dunham's Mill Dunham's Mill, also known as Parry's Mill, is a historic building located at 7 Lower Center Street in Clinton, New Jersey, United States. The gristmill was in operation from 1837 to 1952. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places o ...

, the Stone Mill, for use as an art museum. The museum emphasizes that it is a "center for art, craft & design" and presents exhibitions featuring both local and national artists. The stone mill was added to the

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in 1982 for its significance in commerce and industry. With

History

In 1952, the American artists

James Randall Marsh James Randall Marsh (1896–1966) was an American artist and the husband of Anne Steele Marsh. Biography Marsh was born in 1896 in Paris, France. He was the son of Frederick Dana Marsh and Alice Randall Marsh. He was the brother of the painter ...

and

Anne Steele Marsh Anne Steele Marsh (1901–1995) was an American painter and printmaker whose watercolors, oil paintings, and wood engravings were widely exhibited and drew critical praise. She was also a noted educator and arts administrator. Early life and ...

of Pittstown, helped raise funds to purchase Dunham's Mill. The historic character of the mill was preserved by the architect, William M. Hunt, as it was converted into a museum. After James Marsh's death in 1966, Otto Siegmund became president of the museum. With funding from the

New Jersey State Council on the Arts The New Jersey State Council on the Arts was founded in 1966 to support artistic activities in the state of New Jersey. It is funded by the New Jersey State Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts The National Endowment for the Art ...

, Ann Douglass was hired as the first executive director in 1970. The current president of the board of trustees is Timothy J. Fraser and the current executive director is Marjorie Frankel Nathanson.

Collection

Artists represented in the collection of prints include

Mark di Suvero Marco Polo di Suvero (born September 18, 1933, in Shanghai, China), better known as Mark di Suvero, is an abstract expressionist sculptor and 2010 National Medal of Arts recipient. Biography Early life and education Marco Polo di Suvero was bor ...

Philip Guston Philip Guston (born Phillip Goldstein, June 27, 1913 – June 7, 1980), was a Canadian American painter, printmaker, muralist and draftsman. Early in his five decade career, muralist David Siquieros described him as one of "the most promising ...

Alex Katz Alex Katz (born July 24, 1927) is an American figurative artist known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints. Early life and career Alex Katz was born July 24, 1927, to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, as the son of an émigré who ha ...

, and

Ad Reinhardt Adolph Dietrich Friedrich Reinhardt (December 24, 1913 – August 30, 1967) was an abstract painter active in New York for more than three decades. He was a member of the American Abstract Artists (AAA) and part of the movement centere ...

. Sculptors represented at the museum include

Tom Otterness Tom Otterness (born 1952) is an American sculptor best known as one of America's most prolific public artists. Otterness's works adorn parks, plazas, subway stations, libraries, courthouses and museums around the world, notably in New York City's ...

and

Toshiko Takaezu Toshiko Takaezu (June 17, 1922 – March 9, 2011) was an American ceramic artist, painter, sculptor, and educator who was known for her rounded, closed forms that viewed ceramics as a fine art and more than a functional vessel. She is of Japan ...

Exhibitions

The exhibition "Outsider Art by Southern Folks" in 1994 focused on folk art and included two works by

Herbert Singleton Herbert Singleton (1945–2007) was an American bas-relief sculptor and painter based in New Orleans, Louisiana. His work documented the tribulations of life in the Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans. Life and career Herbert Singleton was b ...

. In early 2002, the works of the sculptor

Jim Toia Jim Toia is an American studio artist and professor of art. Early life Toia was born in the U.S. state of New Jersey. He attended Lawrenceville School where he discovered an Amanita muscaria on the school grounds and researched its deadly attr ...

were displayed in an exhibition entitled "Groundwork" and featuring mushrooms as both source and subject. Later in the year, the museum celebrated its anniversary with an exhibition entitled "50 Years: The History of the Hunterdon Museum of Art". In ''

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'', art critic William Zimmer described it as the "most charming and picturesque" museum in the state. The 2003 exhibition "Extreme Landscape" featured paintings of volcanic eruptions by

Diane Burko Diane Burko (born 1945 Brooklyn, NY) is an American painter and photographer. She is currently based in Philadelphia and Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Her work addresses landscape, climate change and environmental activism. Biography Diane B ...

and lithographs of a mountain landscape by

James Lavadour James Lavadour (born 1951) is an American painter and printmaker. A member of the Walla Walla tribe, he is known for creating large panel sets of landscape paintings. Lavadour is the co-founder of the Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts. ''I bel ...

. All three floors of the museum were used to display the works of

, who lives in nearby Quakertown, in 2006. The show included over fifty of her painted abstract vessels, in either clay or porcelain.

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