VCP’s PRINT GALLERY
September 2026 Featured Work:
The Photographs of Harriet Langdon Pruyn Rice: Seeing Worthington Through a Different Lens
Curated by Arthur Tuttle
Exhibition Dates: September 4th – September 27th, 2026
Opening Reception: September 4th, 5:00 – 8:00pm
Artist Statement:
Harriet Langdon Pruyn Rice was born into one of Albany’s most prominent families, granddaughter and daughter of judges, senators, and congressmen. But it was Worthington, Massachusetts, her husband’s hometown, that captured her eye. There, over roughly fifteen years starting in the 1890s, she photographed the farmers, neighbors, and daily life of a hill-town community she came to love, using a large-format tripod camera and glass plate negatives. Her images are direct and warm, a quality echoed in her journals, where she reflected on the value of simply sitting with people and observing that “life presents variations everywhere.”
The exhibition also features a project Rice undertook around the turn of the century: a private reprinting of John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem Snow-Bound, illustrated with her own platinum photographs of her family’s Worthington home.
More than 100 of Rice’s photographs, preserved by the Worthington Historical Society, along with journals held at the Albany Institute of History and Art, offer an intimate look at a fading rural New England world, seen through the eyes of a woman who moved between two very different lives.
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How To Have Your Work Featured:
To have a featured 1-month exhibition in VCP’s Print Gallery, participants must be a current VCP member and fill out the online exhibition proposal form (please choose the “VCP’s Print Gallery” option within the form) here: https://vcphoto.org/exhibits/propose-an-exhibit/ If you would like us to consider your work for a show and are not currently a member, we invite you to join today! You can sign up to be a VCP member online HERE.
There is no cost or fee to show your work in the Print Gallery. If you need your work printed for your exhibition, VCP would be happy to offer you our fine-art printing services at a discounted rate.
Work is encouraged to be available for purchase. VCP retains 40% of any artwork sales during the exhibition.
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