Press Photo The American Museum

This Year's New Exhibits At The American Museum: America's first Museum of decorative art to be set up in this country, or anywhere else outside the United States, is starting its second season at Claverton manor near Bath. Its purpose is to correct the somewhat distorted image of American culture held by many Europeans. Besides demonstrating with examples of early American art that, although a comparatively young country, America is by no means devoid of a cultural background, it also gives an idea of the way Americans lived in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Among the new exhibits on shows this year are a room given over the New Mexican Religious Art, a series of miniature American period rooms, and some new additions to the already extensive collection of Folk Art. Wall Sconce - in the New Mexican Living Room. Probably made from tin cans, it has punched decoration around a central mirror. The design is influenced by the Federal style which came in after the opening of the Santa Fe Trail.

Photo measures 8 x 10 inches.

Photo is dated --0000.



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