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Pittsfield Portraits Launch Mary Black Career in Folk Art
Mary Childs Black, newly named director of the Museum of Early American Folk Art in New York, rose from Lenox and Pittsfield roots. She has led the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection and produced shows for Smithsonian, writing on folk art, and aims to mount four to six annual exhibitions building a broad historical span. The Berkshire County Historical Society meeting will feature her address tomorrow at 8:30 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsfield
Mary Black
Black
Associated Press
Lenox
Berkshire County Historical Society
Berkshire Life Community
New York
Museum of Early American Folk Arts
Mary Childs Black
Erastus Salisbury Field
John P. Merrill
Mass
Hlack
Frances Stoddard Merrill
Philips Merrill
Frances Stoddard Jrill
George S. Montgomery
Wie
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Williamsburg
Rockefeller
Smithsonian Institution
Edward Hicks
University of North Carolina
George Washington University
Richard Winthrop Black
Alexandria
New York City