Twenty-five Folk Artists: Their Lives and Work

About the exhibition

The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center presented Twenty-five Folk Artists: Their Lives and Work in 1971. The documented paintings include portraits and views of buildings, with individual artists and surviving objects retained rather than generic subject matches. Exact surviving examples are Eunice Pinney’s Lolotte and Werther (1810; watercolor; the picture on the wall is an original engraving entitled "Winter," pasted in a simulated frame) and Joshua Johnson’s The Westwood Children (c. 1807; oil on canvas). This is a partial checklist reconstructed from the objects’ museum histories; precise opening and closing days remain unknown.

Also recorded as: Twenty-five Folk Artists: Their Lives and Work, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg, Virginia