The Museums of Buffalo and Corning New York

At the end of my trip along the Erie Canal I had the chance to spend some time exploring Buffalo, New York, and to stop at the Corning Museum of Glass, in corning New York. I had not visited Buffalo in about 45 years, and I was impressed with some of the things I got to see. Albright-Knox Gallery By Danielle Sauers (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons I started my day in Buffalo with a visit to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery . Located across from the entrance of Buffalo State College, and alongside the Fredrick Law Olmsted designed Delaware Park, Albright-Knox’s classical and modern buildings are a beautiful home to its collection of Modern and Contemporary Art. Its original building was built in 1905 as the home to the collection of modern art owned by John J. Albright , a Buffalo industrialist whose businesses included coal, asphalt and electrical power. In 1962 Seymour Knox II, chairman of t...