Folk Art Journey: Florence D Barlett and the Museum of International Folk Art

by Laurel Seth (Editor), Bruce Taylor Hamilton (Designed by), Mary Wachs (Editor), Blair Clark (Photographer), Ree Mobley (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780890134467
Publisher:	Museum of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	05/14/2003
Pages:	116
Product dimensions:	10.58(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.48(d)

Table of Contents

	Foreword	7
	Acknowledgments	11
	Introduction	13
	For All the World to See: Florence Dibell Bartlett's Vision for an Untroubled World	17
	The Florence Dibell Bartlett Collection	39
	A World Center: Founding the Museum of International Folk Art	95
	Bibliography	113