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The
Castellani
family
built
a
grocery
store
empire,
beginning
with
a
mom
and
pop
in
n
Niagara
Falls,
New
York.
The
family
caught
the
collecting
bug
in
1956
and
what
can
you
do
with
a
personal
collection
of
thousands
of
works
but
donate
it
to
a
non-profit?
The
family
had
a
construction
company
that
built
all
the
grocery
stores,
so
the
company
built
the
art
museum.
The
family
collected
passionately
with
great
results.
However,
the
museum
also
shows
where
the
hunt
for
great
art
brought
home
not
easy
to
understand
items.
The
museum
celebrates
the
calling
that
is
collecting.
A
show
entitled
Western
New
York
Collects:
Nancy
Dwyer
has
pride
of
place
in
a
prominent
gallery
of
the
museum.
The
show
exhibits
Dwyer's
work
held
by
local
collectors,
many
collectors
living
in
Buffalo.
Dedication
of
the
art
museum
to
the
development
of
art
on
the
Niagara
Frontier
cannot
be
questioned
after
a
thousand
days
of
supporting
Thomas
Keeler's
mission
of
"Painting
Niagara".
The
show
traveled
the
world
before
returning
to
this
perch
over
the
Niagara
River,
discover
down
river
from
the
cataracts.
The
Castellani
family
started
collecting
by
acquiring
a
George
Inness
painting,
a
gem
of
Hudson
River
School.
The
family
gives
direct
support
to
the
latest
generation
of
painters
who
take
their
sketch
books
and
easels
into
nature
by
presenting
Kegler's
Painting
Niagara
at
C.A.M.
This
exhibition,
with
a
documentary
video,
has
the
power
to
inspire
another
generation
to
take
paints
and
brushes
to
the
wild.
