@folkartmuseum: "Locating Girlhood: Place and Identity in Early American ‘Schoolgirl’ Art” is now on view at the American Folk Art Museum. Admission is always free. Open Wednesday–Sunday, 11:30 AM–6 PM. “Locating Girlhood” reexamines the often-overlooked artistic production of girls and young women in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America, highlighting their sustained engagement with representations of place long before the emergence of more widely recognized traditions of American landscape art. Drawing on loans from institutions and private collections across the United States and Canada, the exhibition offers one of the most significant explorations of early American girls’ artistic achievement ever assembled. - Lead support for "Locating Girlhood" is provided by Elizabeth and Irwin Warren; the Henry Luce Foundation; and the Historical Society of Early American Decoration (HSEAD). Major support is provided by Nina Beaty and the Coby Foundation. Generous support is provided by the Americana Foundation; Every Page Foundation; Deborah Buck Foundation; David and Dixie De Luca; Alexandra and Frederick Peters; Mary lngebrand-Pohlad Fund of The Minneapolis Foundation; the American Folk Art Society; and Jane and Gerald Katcher. Additional support is provided by Citi; the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; and the David Davies and Jack Weeden Fund for Exhibitions. Support for the exhibition publication has generously been provided by Deborah Davenport and Stewart Stender and the Wyeth Foundation for American Art. Media support is provided by "The Magazine ANTIQUES."
