of material to find the photograph. We were rewarded; in fact, two views of the shop figure of Brooklyn's West End Sheet metal and Roofing Works were discovered. While the original six-foot tin man, now in a private collection in New York, will be in the exhibition, the photograph, a visual document of the figure in its historical setting, is included in the book. Also included in Young America are a number of pieces which have never before been published in a major folk art book, including "Miniature Panorama: Scenes from a Seminary for Young Ladies:' from the St. Louis Art Museum;"The Sinking Titanic:' an oil painting on mother-of-pearl from the Selden Rodman Collection at Yale Uni-
versity Art Gallery;"Gotharn7 by Paul Seifert; and a childhood "Portrait of Jonathan Knight;'from a private collection. Knight went on to become one of the founders of Yale Medical School. The kind of research we did for "Young America" is part of most such projects. But we are particularly pleased with our discoveries because of their contribution to the young, but growing body of folk art scholarship. We are indebted to the many helpful curators, archivists, scholars, librarians and collectors all over the country who were eager to assist in our search. Even with the book in print and the exhibition ready to be hung, further information on objects and their subjects is turning up. We hope that"Young
RELOCATED: Massachusetts tobacco sign; Artist unknown; Circa 1860; Oil on wood;233h x 270"; The Metropolitan Museum ofArt, New York; Bequest ofEdgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch. 40
America:' the book and the exhibition, will be just a starting point, stimulating continued research and new discoveries in the field of American folk art. Mary Ann Demos coordinated the research for the book Young America and is Associate Curator of the exhibition. She has a Master's Degree from the Museum of American Folk Art/New York Univerisity Graduate Program in Folk Art Studies.
NOTES 1. Rayford W. Logan and Michael R. Winston (editors) Dictionary ofAmerican Negro Biography(New York • London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1982) p. 301. 2. Helen H. Blish, A Pictographic History ofthe Oglala Sioux (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1967) p. vii. 3. Ibid. p. viii.
PHOTO IN SITU: Tinsmith; J. Krans; Circa 1895; Tin; 72" high; Collection ofElaine Terner Cooper. While it was no problem locating the tin man himself his photograph in the original Brooklyn setting was hard to come by. Photo courtesy of Jean Lipman Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washingtion, D.0.