Collecting America: Folk Art & The Shelburne Museum (1988)

Collecting America: Folk Art and the Shelburne Museum
Narrator: Ann Sothern
Host: John Wilmerding
Directed by Rick Harper

(Home Vision, 1988)

Running Time: 28 Minutes

COLLECTING AMERICA
Folk Art and the Shelburne Museum

Collecting America: Folk Art and the Shelburne Museum celebrates Electra Havemeyer Webb’s collection of collections, now comprised of hundreds of thousands of American folk art pieces filling 37 buildings of the world-renowned Shelburne Museum in Vermont. The film, narrated by Ann Sothern and hosted by John Wilmerding, provides a kaleidoscopic glimpse of objects, from whimsical whirligigs to a 900-ton side-wheeler, the Ticonderoga. It pays tribute to a pioneering collector who taught us to appreciate ordinary objects made by ordinary people.

Narrator: Ann Sothern
Host: John Wilmerding
Director: Rick Harper
Producer: Byron McKinney Associates, Inc., in association with the National Gallery of Art
Running Time: 28 minutes

This film has been made possible by a generous grant from The New England

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Cover illustration: Major Ringgold Album Quilt (detail), c. 1846, Shelburne Museum, Vermont

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