Researcher Seeks Information

For Major Folk Art Exhibition

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To the Editor:

Research for a major folk art exhibition, “The Art of Reform: Folk Painters and Social Concerns,” is in progress and background information about individual artists and their work is of interest.

The exhibition and accompanying catalog centers on Nineteenth Century American folk painters who were actively involved in reform movements of their day.

Artists included in the study are William Matthew Prior (1806–1873), Horace Bundy (1814–1883), Jonathan Fisher (1768–1847), Edward Hicks (1780–1849), M.W. Hopkins (1789–1844), Noah North (1809–1880), Sheldon Peck (1797–1868), Robert Peckham (1785–1877) and Susan Waters (1823–1900).

The artists were participants in a variety of Nineteenth century social movements such as abolitionism, antimasonry, antislavery, progressive religion (particularly Adventism), temperance and women’s suffrage. The exhibition will document the painters’ artistic activities and examine migratory patterns, systems of patronage and tutelage, cultural influences and the transmission of style.

Anyone with pertinent information is encouraged to contact: Jacquelyn Oak, project director, PO Box 832, Shelburne, VT 05482 or folkartreform@yahoo.com.

Jacquelyn Oak