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 show 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.
La Meurte - the figure of death, always represented by the Mexicans as a woman sitting in a cart which was dragged over the country-side in procession. Behind is a fifteen - branched candelabra. This is in the Morade or the Chapel of the Pentitent Brotherhood. From the New Mexican Living Room.
Photo measures 8 x 10 inches.
Photo is dated --0000.
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