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Wednesday, 12 March 2008

American Folk Art at the Farnsworth Museum

Uncommon Treasures
(Through Nov. 30th)

The Farnsworth Museum presents "Uncommon Treasures: American Folk Art".

The rich holdings of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American folk art. There are paintings by the nationally renowned Grandma Moses, the Blue Hill, Maine preacher Jonathan Fisher, and, fittingly, a portrait of Fannie and Willie Farnsworth.

Folk Art takes many forms, and the museum’s collection contains a carved wood figurehead of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, a gilded copper weather vane of the pace horse Ethan Allen by the W.A. Snow Ironworks of Boston, a carved and painted wood pilot house eagle by John Haley Bellamy, and a painted child’s rocking chair. Quilts, samplers, and a rare surviving ship’s banner from the late nineteenth-century sailing ship, Alice A. Hall will also be shown, along with toys which include a rocking horse, a checkerboard, a child-sized Bissell carpet sweeper, and a Boys National tool chest. An 1850 painted panoramic view of downtown Rockland by Samuel A Fuller is among these examples of American folk art from the Farnsworth’s collection.

This exhibition is part of the Maine Folk Art Trail, a statewide celebration of folk art in eleven museums across the state. The exhibit runs March 29, 2008 through November 30, 2008

> visit The Farnsworth Museum website



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