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2016 · 181263 — Waterville Maine: Colby College Museum of Art 2016. Hardcover. Near Fine/VG. dustjacket has creasing & light rubbing to corners; wear to back cover spine edges; back cover scratched. red cloth boards w/ gilt spine printing. book vii 163 w/ color & bw illustrations. illustrated & red dustjacket w/ white & red printing. Produced and circulated outside the elite sphere of fine art folk art appealed to the middle-class Americans who were eager to express their identities interests and social ambitions through these decorative vernacular objects. This catalogue presents new research on the Colby College Museum of Art's important collection of paintings sculptures needleworks and works on paper by self-trained artists working primarily in the eastern part of the United States during the long nineteenth century. Essays by Seth A. Thayer Jr. and Elizabeth Finch investigate the formation evolving interpretation and intended uses of the American Heritage Collection of Edith Kemper Jetté and Ellerton Marcel Jetté - one of the earliest gifts to enter the Colby Museum and the basis of its folk art collection. A third essay by Tanya Sheehan explores the complex relationship between folk art fine art and American visual culture. More than sixty catalogue entries by scholars curators and Colby students identify previously unknown makers and subjects uncover new information about the construction and original contexts of works in the collection and enlarge our understanding of what these artworks meant for the people who made and displayed them.--FirstSearch. Colby College Museum of Art hardcover books