Sourced entirely from The Hyde’s important collection of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art, Architect[ural] examines modernist paintings, photographs, and prints that do one of two things: directly depict architecture, or create something abstract but architectural. Works by Dorothy Dehner and Stuart Davis tell stories about familiar barns and buildings along city streets. Richard Anuszkiewicz and Josef Albers created geometric abstractions that structurally evoke skyscrapers or building elevations—using architecture for its compositional, rather than narrative, qualities. Photographers like Leonard Freed and Joel Meyerowitz captured building shadows and window casings in ways that resulted in beautiful, fundamentally abstract work.   

Architect[ural] pays tribute to two Schenectady architects, Werner Feibes and Jim Schmitt, who donated their outstanding modern art collection to The Hyde in 2016. Werner and Jim also endowed a new gallery space at The Hyde, the Feibes & Schmitt Gallery, designed by Glens Falls architect Gary McCoola. 

The exhibition includes works by Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Virginia Berresford, Le Corbusier, Stuart Davis, Dorothy Dehner, Leonard Freed, Sol LeWitt, Joel Meyerowitz, Betty Parsons, and others. It will feature our new acquisition (2024) of a photo-based work by Paul Anthony Smith. 

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