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Partner Loan Network
American Folk Art Museum

About

This grouping features highlights from the American Folk Art Museum’s collection in a wide variety of mediums. 

Drawn from the American Folk Art Museum, this grouping presents a survey of highlights from the museum’s collection. Together these artworks can act as an introduction to museum visitors that have never experienced folk art, or as rotations for museums with extensive folk art holdings. This grouping presents a wide array of mediums and themes including Clementine Hunter and Charles C. Hofmann’s landscape paintings that vibrantly capture the essence of place. Other themes explored in this grouping include the representation and popularity of animal forms in folk art from decoy ducks to the fantastical imagery of a sea serpent weathervane.

Lender

American Folk Art Museum | AFAM

Space Requirements

Artworks can be hung together or dispersed throughout the galleries.

Loan Duration

2 years

Facility Requirements

Temp: 65-75°F
RH: 40-60%
Security: 24 hr. CCTV and roaming guards

Support

Art Bridges covers all costs to prepare and ship the artworks to the borrowing museums. The foundation encourages borrowing museums to apply for accompanying Learning & Engagement funding to support the activation and interpretation of Partner Loan Networks artworks. Learning & Engagement funding supports multidisciplinary programming, interpretive materials, and community outreach.

Availability

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    Downloads

    Checklist - 1. Highlights from Collection (PDF)

    Checklist - 2. Highlights from the Collection (PDF)

    Checklist - 3. Clementine Hunter (PDF)

    Checklist - 4. Purvis Young Highlights (PDF)

    Checklist - 5. Art from Bessemer, Alabama (PDF)

    Checklist - 6. Self-Taught Artists from the South (PDF)

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    Clementine Hunter (1886 or 1887 - 1988), Picking and Hauling Cotton, late 20th Century, Oil on canvas board, 23 1/2 x 29 1/2 in. (59.7 x 74.9 cm), American Folk Art Museum, New York, gift of Joan Einbender, 2016.28.1, Photo by Adam Reich, CL.2022.4.21

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