 |
|
|
Conserving the Carolina Room
This exhibition highlights the current research and conservation on a nineteenth-century painted room acquired by the museum in the 1950s. Each board, wainscoat and door have been investigated and treated to bring them closer to their original appearance. |
|
|
|
Cross Rhythms: Folk Musical Instruments
This exhibition features banjos, fiddles, and dulcimers from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Highlights include a piano built into a chest of drawers and a record-playing hippocerous. |
|
|
|
.jpg)
Down on the Farm
This exhibition follows the story of Prince, a carved wooden dog, as he explores the country side. This family-friendly exhibition features animals in paintings, sculpture and toys. Visitors read rhyming text that tells the adventures of Prince as he meets up with weathervane roosters, carved ducks, and wooden horses. |
|
|
|
Exciting Expressions: Painted Furniture
This exhibition displays case pieces, chairs and boxes that have been embellished with decorative treatments. Plain wooden pieces were made more lively and interesting with color, pattern and designs. |
|
|
|
Flowers, Birds, and Baskets: Pattern in 19th-century Bed Coverings
This exhibition showcases colorful quilts and coverlets that decorated the homes in early America. A variety of techniques were used to create these household textiles. Americans were not shy about color and pattern and used them on everyday objects that today stand as works of art. |
|
|
|
In Memoriam: Mourning Art in Early America
This exhibition explores the fascination with honoring deceased loved ones and heroes. Paintings, medals and quilts were created to honor the country’s first president and national hero George Washington after his death in 1799. School girls in the beginning decades of the nineteenth century created needlework pictures that memorialized a loved one. Jewelry was created specifically for those in mourning. |
|
|
|
Inspiration and Ingenuity: American Stoneware
This exhibition features stoneware pieces from the nineteenth-century through the present day. The exhibition explores the tradition of decorating utilitarian stoneware and its evolution to an art form. |
|
|
|
Introduction to American Folk Art
This exhibit introduces visitors to the museum and to the collector Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Mrs. Rockefeller admired the artful expressions of non-academic artists from the past and present. She set out to acquire pieces that reflected the best of the American people. When she died in 1948, she left her extensive collection of folk art to Colonial Williamsburg. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., in honor of his wife, built the museum in 1957 to display the collection. |
|
|
|
Scenes of Everyday Life: The Drawings of Lewis Miller
This exhibition features the work of 19th-century artist Lewis Miller. His fine, detailed drawings echo his observations of the places he visited and the people he encountered. |
|
|
|
We See America
This exhbition takes visitors on a journey to the sites of nineteenth century America. Travel and tourism grew as the country expanded. People traveled to visit friends and relatives, to rest and relax, to regain health and to see the wonders of the new nation. Niagara Falls, Natural Bridge and the Hudson River were popular destinations. Cities and small towns had their share of travelers as well. Landscape paintings from the Folk Art collection illustrate America from the nineteenth through the early twentieth century. |
|
|
|
We the People: Three Centuries of American Folk Portraits
This exhibition showcases the museums extensive collection of paintings depicting people of the past. The exhibition will take a look at the motivation for creating the pieces and how portraiture changed over time. |
|
|
Historic Triangle