WHITE ON WHITE (AND A LITTLE GRAY)
American Folk Art Museum: March 28–September 17, 2006
Artist unidentified
United States
1810–1820
Cotton with cotton fringe
96 x 78"
“White on White (and a little gray)” highlights the vernacular American participation in the vogue for neoclassicism. The pure light of white-on-white textiles was the perfect emblem of rationalism in the Federal era. The American Folk Art Museum holds a breathtaking collection of these textiles executed in a variety of techniques that have never been shown together. About ten whiteworks will be on view, from the Museum’s earliest example, dated 1796, to mid-nineteenth century textiles. ...
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