Bliss Carnochan, who collected the works on view in American Wonder with Nancy Edebo between 1966 and 1975, shares his passion for and knowledge of American folk art in this informal gallery talk. Carnochan, Richard W. Lyman Professor of Humanities, Emeritus at Stanford University, will discuss selected portraits, landscapes, sculptures, and commemorative mourning pictures, and address the complex status of folk art per se and as a field for collecting.
Carnochan’s own interest in folk art began in the 1950s when he saw reproduced in a Boston newspaper a compelling family portrait by the New England artist Erastus Salisbury Field, then just acquired by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
American Wonder: Folk Art from the Collection captures our burgeoning nation during a time of enormous change, from the Declaration of Independence in 1776 to the onset of the Civil War in 1861. The exhibition includes approximately fifty portraits, landscapes, commemorative mourning pictures, weather vanes, and decorative sculptures from the BAM/PFA collection. This distinguished collection—one of the finest of American folk art in California—is due to the generosity of W.B. Carnochan and N.C. Edebo.
Included with BAM/PFA Gallery Admission.
$10.00 – General Admission
$7.00 – Non-UC Berkeley students; Senior citizens (65 & over); Disabled persons; Young adults (13-17)
Free for BAM/PFA members; UC Berkeley Students, faculty, staff, and retirees; Children (12 & under)
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Carnochan’s own interest in folk art began in the 1950s when he saw reproduced in a Boston newspaper a compelling family portrait by the New England artist Erastus Salisbury Field, then just acquired by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
American Wonder: Folk Art from the Collection captures our burgeoning nation during a time of enormous change, from the Declaration of Independence in 1776 to the onset of the Civil War in 1861. The exhibition includes approximately fifty portraits, landscapes, commemorative mourning pictures, weather vanes, and decorative sculptures from the BAM/PFA collection. This distinguished collection—one of the finest of American folk art in California—is due to the generosity of W.B. Carnochan and N.C. Edebo.
Included with BAM/PFA Gallery Admission.
$10.00 – General Admission
$7.00 – Non-UC Berkeley students; Senior citizens (65 & over); Disabled persons; Young adults (13-17)
Free for BAM/PFA members; UC Berkeley Students, faculty, staff, and retirees; Children (12 & under)
Bliss Carnochan, who collected the works on view in American Wonder with Nancy Edebo between 1966 and 1975, shares his passion for and knowledge of American folk art in this informal gallery talk. Carnochan, Richard W. Lyman Professor of Humanities, Emeritus at Stanford University, will discuss selected portraits, landscapes, sculptures, and commemorative mourning pictures, and address the complex status of folk art per se and as a field for collecting.
Carnochan’s own interest in folk art began in the 1950s when he saw reproduced in a Boston newspaper a compelling family portrait by the New England artist Erastus Salisbury Field, then just acquired by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
American Wonder: Folk Art from the Collection captures our burgeoning nation during a time of enormous change, from the Declaration of Independence in 1776 to the onset of the Civil War in 1861. The exhibition includes approximately fifty portraits, landscapes, commemorative mourning pictures, weather vanes, and decorative sculptures from the BAM/PFA collection. This distinguished collection—one of the finest of American folk art in California—is due to the generosity of W.B. Carnochan and N.C. Edebo.
Included with BAM/PFA Gallery Admission.
$10.00 – General Admission
$7.00 – Non-UC Berkeley students; Senior citizens (65 & over); Disabled persons; Young adults (13-17)
Free for BAM/PFA members; UC Berkeley Students, faculty, staff, and retirees; Children (12 & under)
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Carnochan’s own interest in folk art began in the 1950s when he saw reproduced in a Boston newspaper a compelling family portrait by the New England artist Erastus Salisbury Field, then just acquired by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
American Wonder: Folk Art from the Collection captures our burgeoning nation during a time of enormous change, from the Declaration of Independence in 1776 to the onset of the Civil War in 1861. The exhibition includes approximately fifty portraits, landscapes, commemorative mourning pictures, weather vanes, and decorative sculptures from the BAM/PFA collection. This distinguished collection—one of the finest of American folk art in California—is due to the generosity of W.B. Carnochan and N.C. Edebo.
Included with BAM/PFA Gallery Admission.
$10.00 – General Admission
$7.00 – Non-UC Berkeley students; Senior citizens (65 & over); Disabled persons; Young adults (13-17)
Free for BAM/PFA members; UC Berkeley Students, faculty, staff, and retirees; Children (12 & under)
show less
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