The Hudson River Museum is presenting the exhibition, Floral Arrangements: Highlights from the Collection, on view through September 17, 2017. Floral Arrangements illustrates the various ways we express our love of flowers with selections from the Museum’s 19th- and 20th-century collections. From botanical watercolors by Joanna Kellinger in Victorian Yonkers to a “Mimosa” rug by Henri Matisse, on view for the first time since 1983, floral specimens from the Museum’s vaults have been arranged to coincide with Robert Zakanitch: Garden of Ornament. Featuring more than 30 objects, the exhibition includes paintings, photographs, textiles, ceramics and more. The exhibition begins with a wall of botanical studies, where Kellinger’s English Bluebells and Spider Lilies hang next to a 1934 drawing, Banana Blossom, by Georgia O’Keeffe. Other sections include portraiture, the decoration of clothing and home furnishings,
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