The Clarion (1972)

THE CLARION The Folk Art Newsletter Published by The Museum of American Folk Art 49 West 53rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10019 Vol. I, No. 2

This dramatically patterned Wool Bargello Pillow won first prize at the Rochester State Fair around 1900, and was featured in our first bicentennial show, THE FABRIC OF THE STATE. (Story inside)

FROM THE DIRECTOR We are currently at a time in history when at all levels of society there is a deep desire to understand and often to simulate a life style of an earlier, less complicated, era of American history.

The Museum of American Folk Art, perhaps more than any other museum in New York City, helps one fulfill this wish.

Within the past year the Museum has received a tremendous amount of press and television coverage. Our exhibitions have been widely applauded. Membership in the Museum has not only increased; it has soared upward. Attendance at the shows is reaching an unprecedented mark. It is also important to note that book and gift sales in the Museum's shop have during this past year doubled as compared with the previous year.

It would appear then, you are perhaps thinking, that there are no problems. Unfortunately, that is not the case. As you can deduce from what I have just said and from reading the items discussed in other parts of this newsletter, we have been able to increase our income appreciably. Regretfully, however, our income still falls short of what could be considered even minimal financial support.

Perhaps, dear reader, you are saying "How can I help?" Please encourage your friends to become members of our museum. Many people who appreciate folk art have never joined. Also, a one year membership in the Museum makes a delightful gift. Purchase your gifts, cards and folk art books in the Museum shop.

We are also most interested in increasing the number of corporate members. Companies normally give $250 to $1,000 per year under the Corporate Membership program or give a direct grant on a non-recurring basis. We need the help of anyone who can either encourage a company to become a Corporate Member of the Museum or who can give us the name of a "contact" within the company. If you have any questions regarding this please call me at the office.

One of our highest priorities is the acquisition of our own building with greatly increased space. We need additional space for our changing exhibitions, space to show some of our permanent collection, space for storage, space for larger offices, space for an expanded sales shop, and space for an improved folk art research library.

Our hope is that someone will donate a building to the Museum. If that were to happen we feel certain that we would have no difficulty in securing the funds necessary to have the building renovated to suit the Museum's requirements.

I want to take this opportunity to express appreciation for the support in time, money and energy that you are all giving to the Museum. In addition, I ask that at this time you redouble your efforts in the areas that I have outlined and give the Museum that extra thrust it deserves.

WALLACE E. WHIPPLE DIRECTOR

"THE FABRIC OF THE STATE", FIRST BICENTENNIAL SHOW The first of our five New York Bicentennial shows opened May 23rd been received most enthusiastically. Attendance has been the has and highest for any show this season, the sales desk is busier than ever and compliments have come in from far and wide.

"THE FABRIC OF THE STATE" is a varied selection of the arts of the needle and loom as they developed from the early 18th century to the present day in New York. Over 200 items, including quilts, cloaks, samplers, coverlets, pillows, rugs, flags and blankets, together with looms, wool winders, frames, quill wheels and carders, were brought to the exhibit from collections, museums and historical societies all over the state.

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The Quintessence of Quilts.

Herbert Hemphill, curator of the exhibit, is to be congratulated for assembling this unique and fascinating show, and for the excellent catalog, which can be bought at the desk or by mail for $2.00.

The show is noteworthy not only for the diversity of the items on display, but also for their imagination and artfulness. Though this work may have been drudgery in some hands, these examples are full of the spirited expression of the folk artist. Today young people everywhere are taking up these ancient crafts. They are sparking a revival which may well produce work on a par with the best from centuries past.

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Right: a large 17th century loom.

We have been very fortunate to have Mrs. Joseph McCabe and her two children as volunteers during "THE FABRIC OF THE STATE" show. They came three times a week from Westport, Connecticut, to demonstrate spinning, quilting and weaving, and during part of the afternoon the children, dressed in early American costumes, stood outside the museum playing charming melodies on their recorders, and visitors flocked in to our exhibit.

Mrs. McCabe is an expert on colonial domestic life. Visitors learned about spinning, weaving and quilting on the old tools and were invited to try their own hand. Mrs. McCabe went into great detail and never tired of answering questions. Furthermore, she has offered to do a grand old-fashioned Christmas tree for our Christmas Bazaar. The museum is very grateful to the talented and generous McCabe family for everything they have done.

We are also grateful to Miss Lynn Gordon, an interesting and enthusiastic lady, who has come in as a volunteer every Saturday. She takes great delight in the Museum and its shows and we hope she will be with us next season.

The next show in our bicentennial series will have metal as the central medium, and is planned for the same time next year. We will be grateful to hear about any unusual or important pieces of metal folk art from New York State which might be available for this show.

"AN EYE ON AMERICA", FOLK ART FROM THE STEWART E. GREGORY COLLECTION March 14th saw the gala opening of the first public showing of one of the greatest collections of folk art in America. Sanka Knox, of the New York Times, described it as a "dream world projection of the America of the past" and the Newtown Bee hailed it as "among the best ever." Our small museum was filled to capacity with members and friends who came to see the paintings, carvings, trade and tavern signs, weathervanes, whirligigs, decoys, toys, hooked rugs and decorated furniture assembled over .the last 20 years

by Stewart Gregory, a truttee of the museum.

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Mr. Gregory Examining a William and A corner at

and a White-Wing Scooter. painted Windsor Rocker.

Caroline Harris, guest curators. the show - carved figures, angel weathervane, trade sign.

We were fortunate to have two talented, professional guest curators, William and Caroline Harris, who were kind enough to volunteer their services, and they put together a truly spectacular exhibit. The Harris' are responsible for exhibit planning at the newly opened Heritage Plantation in Sandwich, Massachusetts.

As Jean Lipman wrote in the January, 1971, issue of Antiques Magazine: "The single most significant fact about Stewart Gregory's collection is that it embraces every major aspect of American folk art...."

Among the pieces shown was the Ammi Phillips "Woman in Organdy Collar" one of the most beautiful portraits we have seen - an extremely rare 6-1/2 foot tall race track tout, and the large copper indian weathervane, "Mashamoquet." On a smaller scale was the group of small Pennsylvania woodcarved animals, a delightful pot-bellied, hawk-nosed whirling man wind vane and the exquisite set of Ellsworth minatures of the Pomeroy family.

We still have a few catalogs of the Gregory show, and we are selling them now to members for the special reduced price of $1.00.

Because of the comprehensive nature of this collection, we feel that the catalog is basic for any folk art library, and will be a collector's item when the printing is exhausted.

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT ANNOUNCES SECOND "GRASS ROOTS" GRANT The National Endowment for the Arts gave us $10,000 last year to support our "Rediscovery of Grass Roots America", a program which we hope to continue indefinitely, to discover and exhibit overlooked arts and crafts of our American past. This grant enabled us to produce "TATTOO!", one of our most popular shows. Now the National Endowment has given us $16,000 for our next show in the series, the "Occult" show.

RECENT DONATIONS -

Mr. and Mrs. Paul L. Smith gave us a large collection of early fabrics, household tools and a 19th century cast iron fireback.

Dr. John T. Odum, a federal drop-leaf table.

Gary Cole, a set of 6 federal grained chairs.

Mrs. Spencer C. Devan, 19th century lacework and flax.

Mrs. Charles Prendergast, "Seeking Gold in the West", painted wood relief by Elijah Pierce.

Mrs. Louis Stallone, a woven coverlet and a collection of lace.

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Mr. and Mrs. Alastair B. Martin and Adele Earnest - Decoy experts all.

Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Jensen, Governor and Mrs. Robert B. Meyner, Barbara Johnson and Marian Willard Johnson.

Nina and Nathan Starr, Burt Hemphill in the center.

Bernard Barenholtz, President of the Pyne Press, and Sanka Knox of the New York Times.

Richard Taylor discusses the show with collector Cordelia Hamilton.

Behind them, a painter's trade sign.

Mrs. Norman Lassalle and Henry Coger.

Jean Lipman. To her left, a Micah Williams portrait.

Kenneth Newman of The Old Print Shop.

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"A RETROSPECTIVE LOOK", AUCTION AND COLISELNIT For the first time in five years Museum members and the public were treated to a full-scale exhibit of the Museum's collection, which opened January 18th. Many of the pieces had never been shown because our cramped quarters are barely adequate for our original shows, and these shows prevent us from showing the collection or any part of it.

Therefore, the Board of Trustees decided to sell a part of the collection, together with items donated by friends of the Museum, at an auction at the New York Coliseum on March 3, 1972, and to have at the same time a preview benefit for the Museum at the Coliseum Antiques Fair.

We are happy to report that though the decision to have the auction was made with great deliberation and some anxiety, the event was more successful than we could have hoped. We received so many donations of folk art that we decided to set up a booth at the show to sell less valuable things. Dozens of sponsors each generously contributed $100.

The auction crowd was so great it spilled out of the huge Coliseum lobby, and we ran out of folding chairs. Bidding was enthusiastic, and nearly every piece brought a good price. Top price was $4,500 for the James Campbell Punch figure. Many other items went well over the $1,000 mark, including a large carved eagle, a Will Edmondson sculpture, a chalkware cat and a painted iron Uncle Sam weathervane. Our booth sold well throughout the duration of the Coliseum show.

Henry Coger was Chairman and Mrs. Bernard Barenholtz and Stewart E. Gregory were Honorary Chairmen.

Though it is impossible to individually thank all the sponsors, donors and committee members and volunteers who worked so hard to make this a success, we are grateful to everyone and we hope they all share our satisfaction.

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Four members of the Junior Committee: Elizabeth Johnson, Bruce Johnson, Karen Nielsen, Kiki DeNoyer.

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Stewart Gregory and Edith Barenholtz, Honorary Benefit Chairmen.

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Museum Director Wallace Whipple (right) keeping a close eye on the tally.

Committee Member Dr. Christopher Coates, and Hospitality Chairman Mrs. Richard Taylor.

Auctioneer Robert Skinner discussing the Auction with Punch.

COMING ATTRACTIONS We have a number of interesting and unusual shows on tap besides the bicentennial show of metal already described. "THE FABRIC OF THE STATE" has been so popular we have decided to hold it over in September.

Tentatively scheduled to open late in September is a show of political folk art: buttons, banners, torches, posters, cartoons, toys, paintings and carvings and all the other zany handiwork which comes up at election time, including many great pieces of folk art. A book, "Hail to the Chief," will be published simultaneously by the Pyne Press.

The "grass roots" series, which features unusual folk art seldom shown or appreciated, has already included very popular shows of Macrame and Tattoo, and will continue next season with the Occult: an exhibit of objects related to astrology, witchcraft, phrenology, magic, voodoo, palmistry, alchemy and hex.

Frederic Huge (pronounced 'hue-gay') will be the subject of an important discovery exhibit. Mr. Huge, who worked in Bridgeport, Connecticut in the early 19th century, painted extremely detailed marine and architectural scenes which are historical documents and very fine folk art at the same time. Jean Lipman, who re-discovered Huge, will be advisor for this show, and we will be working together with the National Archives of American Art. Program Chairman Adele Earnest is working on a show of masterpieces of the art of New York State Indians. Slated for next Spring, we hope to have the support of private foundations and to make it a travelling show.

At Christmastime we will have a collectors show of toys, together with a Christmas bazaar which will sell pieces of original folk art for the benefit of the museum. Nelle Hankinson, autocrat of the museum shop, will welcome information about and donations of folk arts and crafts, old and new, for the bazaar - tax deductible, of course.

WE NEED MONEY! Sorry to put it so bluntly, but it takes money to run a museum.

We are fortunate to have generous trustees, members and friends, and to have support from foundations, the National Endowment and the New York State Council on the Arts. But many of our grants are for special projects, and cannot be spent for the everyday operation of the Museum.

That is where we are feeling the pinch severely.

Also, as our members have noticed, the Museum of American Folk Art has chan9ed lately; it costs a lot to implement new policies. We do not have the money to do the things we want to do and ought to do, and we cannot and should not live hand-to-mouth. This is the only museum in New York City to show only folk art, and we feel that anyone who loves and appreciates folk art will further their own interest by contributing.

Because of our program of original exhibits, our lack of capital funding and our small size and extremely limited budget, we are doing more per dollar than any museum going. Anything you can give us goes right into basic necessities. Parkinson's law has no place here; there's no fat to be trimmed off. We are not operating on milliondollar deficits, like other museums. That means that we appreciate every penny we get. Every little bit really counts. $1 buys a typewriter ribbon, $5 repaints our sign, $10 crates a valuable carving, $20 buys a reference book, $50 makes the photo plates for the CLARION, $100 buys a selection of original ceramics to be sold in the shop, $500 converts a show for travelling, and $1000 publishes a modest catalog.

Sometimes we produce an entire show for less than $5000. And a million dollars will buy us our own building! So send what you can. We are grateful for any support, large or small.

NOTICES

Special thanks from the museum to the New York Times and Newtown Bee for their fine coverage of our shows. The Bee is doing a first-rate job keeping tabs on all folk art happenings.

Dr. Louis C. Jones has retired after a quarter century as executive director of the New York Historical Association. Peter Welsh, formerly Program Director of the Smithsonian, will be the new director.

This Robin Snipe decoy has been stolen from the Willard Gallery. Anyone with information about this decoy please call slim Frank Murphy 516-LI1-6724.

The first comprehensive exhibit of Japanese folk toys was presented by the Peabody Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, in April and May. Gloriana very concerned 8 rooms of the is about to be she wonders if

Goodenough, Pomfret Center, Connecticut 06259 is about "an old house in Killingly, Connecticut, with most beautiful stencilling you have ever seen" which bulldozed by the administrator of an estate, and any of our members can help her save it.

Mrs. John G. Graves, Box 667, Glen Rose, Texas 76043, is writing about Tinsel pictures and would be grateful for any information at all.

Leah Gordon is the author of VANES OF THE WIND, an article about early weathervanes in the January issue of Natural History magazine.

AMERICAN FOLK DECORATION and AMERICAN FOLK ART IN WOOD, METAL AND STONE, basic folk art reference books by Jean Lipman have been reprinted by Dover Press and are available from the Museum shop.

The first comprehensive book on scrimshaw, by E. Norman Flayderman, is also now available at the shop.

Judith J. Fraser, 22 Newtown Turnpike, Westport, Conn. 06880, has a primitive portrait of a girl signed "Phebe Jenks" and, would like information on this painter.

Fannie Lou Spelce, who was first brought to the public eye by the Museum of American Folk Art, recently had a one-woman show at the Kennedy Galleries.

Things are jumping on Pier 16 at the South Street Seaport this summer: puppet shows every Monday, Wednesday and Friday 12:30 PM; sea chanties Tuesdays 1:30 PM; folk dancing Wednesdays 7 PM; square dancing and blue grass music Fridays 7 PM. A newly acquired set of 19th century carpenter's tools can be seen at the Model Shop. And their 6th Annual Crafts Fair is on for Saturday and Sunday, August 19th and 20th. Call (212) 349-4310 for information.

(See Last Minute Notices on last page.)

RECENT NEW MEMBERS Our concerted membership program, which began in May, 1971, with the special friends offering, has brought in an unprecedented number of new members in a relatively short period. In the last year our membership has almost tripled. This has continued unabated; in recent months, although we have not been able to concentrate on membership because of the pressures of the auction and benefit, our special shows and foundation applications, new members continue to come in. This is specially gratifying to us, perhaps more than anything else. Our growing roll of members and visitors encourages our new policy. As we wrote in the auction catalog, "Today's museum cannot be a closed group, hoarding its treasurers; it must reach out to everyone."

New Corporate Members International Business Machines

Marine Midland Bank

New Life Member Mr. and Mrs. Josiah K. Lilly, III New Benefactors David L. Davies

William and Caroline Harris New Contributing Members

James R. Bakker Mrs. George P. Bissell Mr. and Mrs. James E. Burke Fred Frassinelli, Jr. Baron J. Gordon William Olsen

Bernard G. Plomp Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Riordan George Schoellkopf Richard S. Sylvia Dr. and Mrs. Stewart Taubkin

New Family Members Mr. and Mrs. Robert Abel Lawrence Conklin Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Freehafer Raymond V. Gentl Julia B. Helms Mr. and Mrs. Dustin Hoffman Lethbridge Community College Mrs. Joseph McCabe Mrs. Carolyn Minskoff

D. B. Neal Patsy and Myron Orlofsky Miss Mary Walker Phillips Mr. and Mrs. William W. Staplin Mr. and Mrs. Gary Stass Dr. and Mrs. George S. Strutz Mr. and Mrs. Max Wild Bertram Wolfson

New Friends Don Beck Dr. Sidney Canarick Mrs. Edward S. Emery III Mrs. Gloria Franklin Marian Gable Roberta Halporn Minna Horowitz Darryl Hughto Jean Hopkins Jackson Marsha Jacobs Richard S. Joslin C. S. Kellogg Jane Liebman

Paul Madden Mrs. Eric M. Maynard Mrs. R. M. Meltz Irene Preston Miller Eileen M. Mulligan Mrs. Bruce Sagan Robert T. Singer Myrna Sossner Rose Tannenbaum Mrs. Eleanor Tompkins Mrs. Jeffrey Urstadt Mrs. Roberta Walsh

New Full Members Don Abarbanel Arline Abdalian Alice Aborn Mrs. E. M. Achilles Patricia Ankner Milo Baughman Elizabeth Becque William H. Bender, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William Bernbach Patricia D. Bethke Mrs. Peter Bing Robert Bishop Ellen Blissman E. M. Boggiano Louis W. Bowen Edward Bragaline Arthur D. Bull Patricia Carol Bullard Theresa Capuana Mrs. Richard Caro Barbara Fahs Charles Anthony Chen Gary Cole Joanna Cole Mrs. William Colihan Marian F. Comstock Country Inn Mrs. Monique DeNoyer The Departure Mrs. Terry Dintenfass Marshall Dodge Clive E. Driver Jean-Pierre Durante Nancy Bank Ehrlich Interiors Sol Ehrlich Joel J. Einhorn Molly Epstein John Fanelli Eva Farrell B. Fendelman Pauline Fischer Marilyn J. Fitch Norman Flayderman Dr. and Mrs. Henry Clay Frick II Edmund Fuller Colonel and Mrs. Edgar W. Garbisch Howard Garrett Perry Granoff William Gray Dr. William S. Greenspun Blanche Greenstein Alvin Grossman William Gurnack MD Charles B. Harding Warren Harlan Mary Harrington Leon Henry Mr. and Mrs. Daniel K. Herrick Yoni Hershkowitz Patricia Hodne Aileen Hunt

Ann Irwin Mr. and Mrs. A. Thurl Jacobson Richard Stephen Jivin Mr. and Mrs. Jacob M. Kaplan Norman R. Kaufman Mr. and Mrs. Stephen E. Kelly Raymond B. Knight Bud Lee Mrs. William Leonard Philip H. Lewis Mr. and Mrs. Howard Lipman Mrs. Gloria List Richard Maass Mary S. MacMurray Dennis Mann Harriet B. Marple Dr. and Mrs. Fletcher McDowell Helen Mencher Dorothea C. Miller Mrs. Kenneth C. Miller Libby D. Miller Jean C. Monahan Mr. and Mrs. Frank Moran Cyril I. Nelson G. R. Newell Karen Nielsen Dr. John T. Odom MacRae Parker, Jr. Mrs. Ann Phillips Roger Phillips Mary Brooks Picken Henry Ploch Jane Purfield Quilt Gallery, Inc. Sergio Rivera Mrs. Sidney Rosner Mrs. Ellen Sabine Mr. and Mrs. Morris A. Schapiro Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sharp Patricia Silleck Barbara Simon Robert Skinner Mrs. Dory Small Mrs. Walter Staab Mr. and Mrs. David Susskind Mrs. Stanley W. Taylor Georve W. Thompson Patricia Thompson Karen H. Thorsen Wallace Todd Kathy Triche Darwin Urffer Joan P. Van den Hende Mrs. A. E. Walters Robert S. Webber Mrs. J. L. Weinberger Gretchen Wessels Wendy Lee Wolosoff Donald Young John G. Young Virginia F. Zito

HERITAGE PLANTATION OPENS ARTS AND CRAFTS BUILDING The Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, Massachusetts, opened its fifth building to the public this spring. Located on the old Dexter estate, the Plantation was already famous for its collection of antique automobiles and military museum. The new building is devoted to early American arts and crafts. One wing houses excellent examples of folk art: weathervanes, carvings, paintings, scrimshaw and trade signs.

The other a wonderful collection of early tools, many exhibited to show their use. The rotunda, where the wings join, is occupied by a working antique carousel. We strongly recommend a visit to all our members and fellow folk art enthusiasts.

Mr. and Mrs. Josiah K. Lilly, III, founders of Heritage Plantation, have been particularly generous to our museum. Their contribution to our "Indian Fund" generated among trustees and special friends of the Museum to conserve the Tammany Indian and other treasures in our collection was the real impetus to the fund's success.

We will be working together with the Heritage Plantation in the future. William and Caroline Harris, who have planned the excellent Heritage exhibits, were responsible for the striking displays of the "Eye on America" show, and will do the "Occult" show next season.

We are also working out an exchange plan with Heritage to take advantage of our schedules: they are closed in the winter, and we are closed for two months in the summer.

MUSEUM SHOP A GROWING SUCCESS In the last year the Museum Shop has grown from several shelves of books to a major attraction. New displays have been built to make it easier to examine the many new items. The stock has doubled. Nelle Hankinson, shop manager, has stocked the shop with books about all aspects of folk art and is supplementing exhibits with books pertaining to the art being featured in the Museum.

Not only has the selection of books and cards increased, but now original folk art is being offered, both new and old. The colorful, fanicful painted clay sculpture of Semmi Berman has been a great success, and we now offer lovely contemporary theorems, intricate scissor cuttings

by Betsy Moore, original Breininger ceramics and other work by contemporary artists. You will also find old decoys, quilts and other fabrics, watercolors and antique theorem paintings. Pewter dinner services will be made to order in an antique manner, and you can order your own family tree in the authentic style of Pennsylvania Fractur.

The Museum Shop has grown from a limited service to a major asset and support of the Museum. We welcome your inquires and information about talented contemporary folk artists who would like an outlet for their work, and we are very grateful for donations of antique folk art which can be sold.

Next season we will have a listing of most of the items in stock, to help you buy by mail. This fall we will be stocked with an attractive selection of folk art Christmas cards. In the meantime, come in and look around.

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Nelle Hankinson (right) and customers in the Museum Shop.

Catalogs and Books of Special Interest Available by Mail The Fabric of the State Catalog $2.00 Stewart E. Gregory Collection $1.00 Ammi Phillips - Portrait Painter 1788-1865 $6.00 American Folk Art in Wood, Metal & Stone (Jean Lipman) Reprint $3.50 American Folk Decoration (Jean Lipman) Reprint $3.95 Lewis Miller Sketches & Chronicles $30. (Special reduced to $25) The Art of the Decoy (Adele Earnest) $5.98 Penn. Dutch American Folk Art (Henry Kauffman) $2.50 Wild Fowl Decoys (Joel Barber) $4.00 Early American Stencils on Walls & Furniture (Janet Waring) $4.00 Early N.E. Gravestone Rubbins (E.V. Gillon, Jr.) $3.50 Shaker Furniture (Edward & Faith Andrews) $2.75 The Shaker Order of Christmas 50 Cigar Store Figures in Am. Folk Art (Pendergast & Ware) 1953 $5.00 Floor Coverings in N.E. before 1850 (Nina Fletcher Little) $2.50 Land & Seascapes As Observed by the Folk Artist (B.K.&N.P.Little) $2.00 American Folk Sculpture, Newark Museum Exhibition of 1931 $6.50 Virginia Fraktur - Penmanship as Folk Art (Klaus Wust) $3.35 Folk Art In Stone - Southwest, Virginia (Klaus Wust) $2.00 J. W. Fiske 1893 Illustrated Catalog of Weathervanes $4.00 What Is American In American Art - M. Knoedler Catalog 1971 $4.00 Penn. German Reverse Painting on Glass $1.25 Pictures & Stories From Forgotten Children's Books $3.00 Old Time Schools & School Books $3.50 The Textile Tools of Colonial Homes $2.50 New York Guide to Craft Supplies (Judith Glassman) $2.95 Woman's Day Book of American Needlework (Rose Wilder Lane) $14.95 Laura Russell Remembers "An Old Plymouth Manuscript" $3.00 Folk Art & The Street of Shops, Henry Ford Museum $2.50 Erastus Salisbury Field 1805-1900, Catalog 1963 $2.00 Tulip Ware of the Penn. German Potters (E. A. Barber) $3.00

LAST MINUTE NOTICES There will be an American Maritime Forum at the Pennsbury Manor, pennsbury, Pa., on the 15th and 16th of September. Lectures will be on carvings, paintings, scrimshaw, the China Trade and Privateering.

The speakers will be: Dr. Dorsey; H. A. Crosby Forbes, Capt. R. V. Forbes House; Dr. Melvin Jackson, Smithsonian; Barbara Johnson, Museum of American Folk Art; Richard Kugler, Old Dartmouth Hist. Soc.; Philip F. Purrington, New Bedford Whaling Museum; Harold Sniffen, The Mariners Museum, Newport News; Edouard Stackpole, Peter Foulger Museum, Nantucket, Mass., and on Advisory Board, Museum of American Folk Art. The Chairman of tne Forum: Dewey Lee Curtis.

Don't miss the new exhibition at the Hallmark Gallery on Fifth Avenue "EXPRESS YOURSELF" (and do some exciting folk art yourself)!

This show was a children's workshop last summer and was immensely successful. Adults were very upset that they could not participate so this year it is for all. July 26th through September 13th.

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Wallace E. Whipple, Director BOARD OF TRUSTEES Barbara Johnson, President Stewart E. Gregory, Vice President Marian Johnson, Secretary Nancy Lassalle, Treasurer Edith Barenholtz Charles H. Carpenter Jean Lipman Adele Earnest Richard Taylor