Virtual Tour of Locating Girlhood: Place and Identity in Early American “Schoolgirl” Art
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Featuring spectacular examples of needlework and other ornamental arts made by American girls in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Locating Girlhood: Place and Identity in Early American “Schoolgirl” Art at the American Folk Art Museum sheds new light on a rich but understudied genre, offering one of the most significant presentations on the subject in recent memory. Curators will offer a virtual tour of the exhibition.
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Artwork credit: Attributed to Faith Trumbull (1743–1775), Overmantel, Connecticut, probably Lebanon, 1754. Silk thread, mica, and gouache on silk, 23 1/8 × 54 in. Connecticut Museum of Culture and History. Detail.
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Institution or Organization name - American Folk Art Museum
