Folk Art Journey
Seth, Laurel / Mobley, Ree![Folk Art Journey](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/176/17664498/CHSBZCOP0317664498.jpg)
Folk art was neither widely collected nor highly valued in the early 1900s, when globetrotting Chicago socialite and philanthropist Florence Bartlett (1881-19540 began buying indigenous works encountered on her travels and dreamed of founding a museum to celebrate cultural diversity. Beartlett realised her goal in 1953, when the Museum of International Folk Art opened in Santa Fe near her long-time summer home. 50 years later, Bartlett's visio...