This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Museum of American Folk Art Eyes Permanent Home
After six years in a temporary gallery the Museum of American Folk Art launches a three year 4 million dollar development fund drive. A former East Side town house near the Whitney Museum is prepared with 200000 for renovation and 360000 for initial operations, while 2.79 million goes to endowment. Honorary chair Gov. Nelson A Rockefeller and co chair Charles M. Grace lead the effort as the institution plans a Labor Day season opening and new exhibitions of 20th century folk art and regional and historical works by Jacob Maentel Ammi Phillips and others.
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New York
Museum of American Folk Art
East Side
Whitney Museum of American Art
Nelson A
Martinson
Publica
New York State Council On the Arts
Mary Black
The
New York Historical Society
West 53Rd
Gladstone
Folk Art Institution
Jacob Maentel
Ammi Phillips
Erastus Field
Pennsylvania
Edward Hicks
Peaceable Kingdom
Sheldon Peck
Illinois
James Sanford Ellsworth
New England
Connecticut
Cape Cod
Massachusetts
Midwest
Latin America
Canada