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THE EVOLUTION OF THE AMERICAN CHAIR Through June 1983 Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute 310 Genesee St. Utica, NY. 13502 The exhibition, on view at Fountain Elms,includes thirty chairs from various periods in American history. It features the newly acquired Herter Brothers chair, a maple side chair made by the renowned furniture makers of New York in the 1880s.
A SAMPLER OF AMERICAN ADVERTISING FROM THE BELLA LANDAUER COLLECTION December 15, 1982 through July 31, 1983 The New York Historical Society 170 Central Park West New York, N.Y. This exhibition will emphasize the many kinds of advertisements used by thousands of different merchants to sell their products. Items in the show range in size from General Tom Thumb's calling card, measuring 11 / 4" by 3R: to three life size cigar store figures. Posters, trade cards, sale catalogs, labels, handbills, invitations, and manufacturer's premiums of every variety will trace the history of advertising in this country from the late 18th to the early 20th century.
FRONTIER MERCHANTS AND NATIVE CRAFTSMEN: The Fred Harvey Company Collects Indian Art(1902-1968) Through Summer 1983 The Heard Museum 22 E. Monte Vista Road Phoenix, Arizona The Fred Harvey Company, whose business began in 1876 with the opening of a restaurant in the Topeka, Kansas railroad station, played a decisive role in directing public attention to the native cultures of the Southwest. Their "Harvey Houses" which sprang up every 100 miles along the Santa Fe Railroad offered the tourist Indian crafts from the reservations. This exhibit will showcase 600 objects from the collection including a reconstruction of the Indian Department salesroom in Albuquerque, New Mexico as it appeared to the tourist in the early 1900's. Also included will be Navajo weaving and jewelry, Pueblo pottery, Hopi kachinas, basketry and Chilkat blankets.
A CELEBRATION: AMERICAN LANDSCAPE PAINTING,GENRE ART AND DRAWING February 3—June 5, 1983 The New York Historical Society 170 Central Park West New York, N.Y. America's foremost and lesser known landscape and genre artists will be represented in this exhibition which will include the Society's paintings, drawings and watercolors as well as an important loan. America's first native school of landscape painting was created by the Hudson River artists and the Society's collection of these paintings is one of the country's finest. Genre painting, a reflection of strong nationalistic pride felt in 19th century America, will be represented by paintings, watercolors and drawings by William Mount, Eastman Johnson, Worthington Whittridge, E.L. Henry and others.
QUILTS AND CAROUSELS:FOLK ART IN THE FIRELANDS May 1—July 4, 1983 Firelands Association for the Visual Arts 80 S. Main Street Oberlin, Ohio 44074 This exhibition ofcarousel animals and quilts will illuminate the history and culture of the City of Oberlin, Oberlin College and Ohio's Firelands Region. A symposium on "quilts as visual language" will be held during the first two weeks of the exhibition. Speakers will include Case Western Reserve University History Professor Lois Scharf("Women in Action: A 19th century Perspective:' May 4); exhibition curator, Ricky Clark ("Quilts as Historic Documents:' May 6); quilt researcher Cuesta Benberry ("Afro-American Woman and Quilts:' May 8); quilt collector and author Jonathan Holstein ("Aesthetics and Economics in American Quilts:' May 11); folklorist Rosemary Joyce and artist/quiltmaker Nancy Crow("Today's Quilters: Traditional and Innovative,' May 15). During the opening reception, 2:00 to 5:00PM May at FAVA,the film "Quilts in Women's Lives" will be shown.
SECOND WESTERN STATES EXHIBITION/THE 38th CORCORAN BIENNIAL EXHIBITION OF AMERICAN PAINTING May 6—August 31, 1983 Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences Peoria, Illinois This exhibition which is comprised of 100 paintings by 30 artists is being organized jointly by Clair List, Associate Curator of Contemporary
Art at the Corcoran and the Western States Arts Foundation of Santa Fe, New Mexico. To be included are artists from Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah and Washington. This year's exhibition is the first of five consecutive Corcoran Biennials to focus on individual regions of the country. The Biennial was created in 1906 to provide a collective forum for the most prominent artists in the country to display their work.
EARLY SOUTHERN HISTORY AND DECORATIVE ARTS June 19—July 15, 1983 Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts Winston-Salem, North Carolina The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina together with the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, will sponsor a graduate summer institute focusing on the decorative arts and history of the South before 1820. The 1983 program will focus in detail on the material culture of the Carolina Low Country including Charleston, South Carolina. Participants will have the opportunity to make use of the collections and research facilities ofthe Museum (MESDA), the Old Salem restoration and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Lectures on history, decorative arts, research methods, object analysis, and other topics will be given on a daily basis by staff members, faculty, and a number of invited guest speakers. A field trip to the Charleston, South Carolina region will take place during the institute.
TRADITIONAL POTTERY OF ALABAMA July 12—September 18, 1983 Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts 440 So. McDonough St. Montgomery, Ala. 36104 Over 200 traditional potteries operated in Alabama between the years of 1920 and 1982. The Anglo pottery tradition was dominant, with the high-firing stoneware clays of the Alabama Piedmont and Black belt attracting numerous pottery families from Georgia and the Carolinas. Approximately 100 pieces representing the traditional forms, glazes and regional characteristics are included in this exhibition,sponsored jointly by the Alabama State Council on the Arts and Humanities and the Montgomery Museum. A catalogue with essay by State folklorist Hank Willett will document this important part of Alabama's cultural and artistic heritage. The program is sponsored by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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