Caroline Welsh

In 1976, as guest curator for the Albany Institute of History and Art’s bicentennial exhibit, Caroline Welsh undertook a survey of 200-year-old artwork found in private collections from ten counties around that city. Her tools for documenting, one by one, more than 1,000 pieces of art were index cards and a Polaroid camera.

The tools have changed, thanks to digital technology, but the process and care is the same in the work Welsh has done over the past forty-nine years curating, researching, writing, cataloging, and directing in museums. And in that time, she has become an expert in American art and Adirondack arts and artists inspired by this unique, wild landscape.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, when she was the Adirondack Museum’s associate curator, Welsh assessed all of the paintings, prints and drawings