textile artists
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Bratton Family Collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: A0074
Abstract
The Bratton Family Collection is composed of materials related to the lives, work, and artwork of mother and daughter Florence Dodge Morton Bratton and Theodora Merrill Bratton Rackle, respectively. The collection includes two of Bratton’s personal journals, The Sunbonnet Babies Primer by Eulalie Osgood Grover, and scans of biographical and photographic secondary source material related to the artists and their work with textiles.
Dates:
1882 - 2019; Majority of material found within 1882 - 1942
Letters to Jacqueline Loewe Fowler from Mary K. Borkowski
Collection
Identifier: A0066
Abstract
This collection primarily comprises letters written by self-taught artist Mary K. Borkowski to Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, former trustee of the American Folk Art Museum (AFAM), in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In her letters, Borkowski updates Fowler on events in her work and life, from the status of the pieces she is working on, to career achievements, to personal challenges. The letters are beautifully candid. Borkowski clearly held Fowler in high esteem, not only as a customer and...
Dates:
1973 - 1999