Folk art journey : Florence D. Bartlett and the Museum of International Folk Art : featuring the Florence Dibell Bartlett Collection / edited by Laurel Seth and Ree Mobley ; principal photography by Blair Clark.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Seth, Laurel, 1953-

Mobley, Ree.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bartlett, Florence Dibell, 1882-1954.

Museum of International Folk Art (N.M.).

Bartlett, Florence Dibell, 1882-1954--Art collections.

Bartlett, Florence Dibell.

Folk art.

Art museums.

Physical Description:

116 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 x 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Santa Fe : Museum of New Mexico Press, [2003]

Summary:

For all her life, Bartlett lived in Chicago. She was the daughter of a prominent business man and belonged to a family that contributed significantly to the cultural life of Chicago. For more than twenty years Bartlett spent summer vacations at Alcalde, in northern New Mexico. In 1949 she decided to build a museum in Santa Fe in which to house her collection of folk art, and she asked John Gaw Meem to be her architect. Folk Art Journey is the story of Bartlett and her extraordinary times growing up on Prairie Avenue in Chicago's fashionable South Side, becoming a cultural leader along with her siblings who themselves contributed substantially to American museums, and traveling the world to assemble both an important collection and a vision for a world in which humanity unites in diversity. The Bartlett Collection features fine examples of European and Middle Eastern costumes and textiles, daily objects from Sweden and the Netherlands, English and American ceramics, Yemeni jewelry, Moroccan amulets, and Latin American wearables. A fascinating history of fifty years of collecting confirms that the founder's vision still guides the Museum of International Folk Art.

Contents:

For All the World to See: Florence Dibell Bartlett's Vision for an Untroubled World / Ree Mobley 17

The Florence Dibell Bartlett Collection 39

A World Center: Founding the Museum of International Folk Art / Laurel Seth 95.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-116).

ISBN:

0890134421

0890134464

OCLC:

52516447