American Traditions: A Taste for Folk Art at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
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American Traditions:
A Taste for Folk Art

1285 Avenue of the Americas
January 10 - March 29, 2002

selections from the exhibit
David Goldsmith (1901–1980) Tin Man, ca. 1930, in the window of Goldsmith's West End Sheet Metal and Roofing Works in Long Island City, now in the collection of the American Folk Art Museum. Photographer unknown.
David Goldsmith (1901-1980) "Tin Man", [ca. 1930]. Photographer unknown, b&w. 25 x 18 cm. Howard W. and Jean Lipman papers, [ca. 1932-1980].
David Goldsmith (1901-1980) Tin Man, [ca. 1930]. Photographer unknown, b&w. 25 x 18 cm. Howard W. and Jean Lipman papers, [ca. 1932-1980].
Archives of American Art.

Fred Smith's Concrete Park in Phillips, Wisconsin, ca. 1985.
Photograph by Robert Amft.
Fred Smith's Concrete Park, Wisconsin, [ca. 1985]. Photograph by Robert Amft, col. 20 x 25 cm. Robert Amft slides and photographs, 1960-1985. Archives of American Art.
Fred Smith's Concrete Park, Wisconsin, [ca. 1985]. Photograph by Robert Amft, col. 20 x 25 cm. Robert Amft slides and photographs, 1960-1985. Archives of American Art.
Photograph of Sister Sarah braiding a chair used the press package to promote the exhibition New Horizons in American Art at the Museum of Modern Art, 1936. Photograph by Vincenti-Herlick.
Sister Sarah braiding a chair, [ca. 1936]. Photograph by Vincenti-Herlick, b&w. 26 x 21 cm. Holger Cahill papers, 1910-1993. Archives of American Art.
Sister Sarah braiding a chair, [ca. 1936]. Photograph by Vincenti-Herlick, b&w. 26 x 21 cm. Holger Cahill papers, 1910-1993. Archives of American Art.
Painter Charles Sheeler (1883-1965) and his dealer Edith Halpert, 1953. Photograph by Musya S. Sheeler. Sheeler had a first-rate collection of folk art and particularly Shaker objects, which he sometimes included in his paintings.
Charles Sheeler and Edith Halpert, 1953. Photograph by Musya S. Sheeler, b&w. 20 x 18 cm. Downtown Gallery records, 1824-1974. Archives of American Art.
Charles Sheeler and Edith Halpert, 1953. Photograph by Musya S. Sheeler, b&w. 20 x 18 cm. Downtown Gallery records, 1824-1974. Archives of American Art.
Edith Halpert's American Folk Art Gallery, incorporated on October 9, 1931, was located on the second floor above the Downtown Gallery at 113 West 13th Street in New York.

Exhibit at Downtown Gallery, [between 1930 and 1940]. Photograph, b&w. 18 x 25 cm. Downtown Gallery records, 1824-1974. Archives of American Art.
Exhibit at Downtown Gallery, [between 1930 and 1940]. Photograph, b&w. 18 x 25 cm. Downtown Gallery records, 1824-1974. Archives of American Art.
Illustrated letter, December 5, 1959, to folk art picker Sterling Strauser from painter Victor Joseph Gatto recalling the day he was born.
Victor Gatto to Sterling Strausser, 1959 Dec. 5. Letter, 4 pages, ink on paper. 18 x 28 cm. Herbert Waide Hemphill papers, 1929-1995. Archives of American Art
Victor Gatto to Sterling Strausser, 1959 Dec. 5. Letter, 4 pages, ink on paper. 18 x 28 cm. Herbert Waide Hemphill papers, 1929-1995. Archives of American Art.
Inez Nathanial Walker, Pail Mail, graphite and colored pencil on paper.

Inez Nathanial Walker, "Pail Mail", graphite and colored pencil on paper. Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. Papers.
Inez Nathanial Walker, Pail Mail, [ca. 1980]. Sketch, col. 28 x 22 cm. Herbert Waide Hemphill papers, 1929-1995. Archives of American Art.
Sister Gertrude Morgan's religious proclamations, ca. 1970.
Sister Gertrude Morgan's religious proclamations, [ca. 1970]. Page, col. 28 x 22 cm. Herbert Waide Hemphill papers, 1929-1995. Archives of American Art.
Sister Gertrude Morgan's religious proclamations, [ca. 1970]. Page, col. 28 x 22 cm. Herbert Waide Hemphill papers, 1929-1995. Archives of American Art.
Annotated catalogue of the first folk art exhibition at the Downtown Gallery, American Ancestors, December 14 to 31, 1931.
"American Ancestors" exhibition held Dec. 14 to 31, 1931. Catalog. 22 x 28 cm. Downtown Gallery records, 1824-1974. Archives of American Art.
American Ancestors exhibition held Dec. 14 to 31, 1931. Catalog. 22 x 28 cm. Downtown Gallery records, 1824-1974. Archives of American Art.
Catalogue of weathervanes manufactured by L. W. Cushing and Sons, ninth edition, c. 1883. Edith Halpert collected wood and iron weathervane molds produced by this prominent nineteenth-century firm and in 1954 reproduced six of the most aesthetically desirable models, each in a limited edition of fifty (Catherine Stover Gaines and Lisa Lynch, A Finding Aid to the Downtown Gallery Records, p. 53).
Catalogue of weathervanes manufactured by L.W. Cushing and Sons, 1883. Catalog, 22 pages. 32 x 22 cm. Downtown Gallery records, 1824-1974. Archives of American Art.
Catalogue of weathervanes manufactured by L.W. Cushing and Sons, 1883. Catalog, 22 pages. 32 x 22 cm. Downtown Gallery records, 1824-1974. Archives of American Art.

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