Electra to the Rescue: Saving a Steamboat and the Story of Shelburne Museum - Hardcover

Biebuyck, Valerie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1567923089 ISBN 13: 9781567923087

Verlag: David R. Godine Publisher Inc, 2008

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Reseña del editor:

In Electra Collecting, Valerie Biebuyck brings young readers the captivating story of this trail-blazing visionary and her adventures in America's attic. Illustrated throughout with archival images and full-color photographs of items from the Shelburne collection, the book is a splendid introduction not only to a dynamic, unconventional woman but also to the rich, colorful world of Americana - the visual vernacular of our nation's people. Electra's enthusiasm was in many ways childlike, and she collected things that fire the imagination of children: rag dolls, cast-iron banks, embroidery samplers, miniature circuses - even a working paddle-wheeler. Here is a book that perfectly embodies Electra's lifelong mission: to teach, in a unique and fun way, the American tradition of craftsmanship and the often sublime beauty of simple, everyday objects.

Biografía del autor:

Elliot Bostwick Davis, the great-granddaughter of Electra Havemeyer Webb, is an authority on nineteenth-century American drawings and is the John Moors Cabot Curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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• Verlag: David R. Godine Publisher Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1567923089
• ISBN 13: 9781567923087
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 47