Colonial Williamsburg at home and on the road.(traveling exhibition of American colonial plastic arts organized by Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)(Brief Article)

The extensive holdings of the Colonial Williamburg Foundation in Williamsburg, Virginia, now number some sixty thousand objects. A fraction of them are illustrated and discussed in this issue, which celebrates Williamsburg's seventy-fifth anniversary. The foundation has also organized an exhibition that will be the centerpiece of the Winter Antiques Show at the Seventh Regiment Armory on Park Avenue and Sixty - seventh Street in New York City, from January 19 to January 28. Proceeds from the antiques show benefit the East Side House Settlement, which provides a number of services, including after-school programs for children in the Mott Haven section of the South Bronx, the most impoverished congressional district in the nation.

The exhibition at the armory is entitled "The Best is not Too Good For You": Colonial Williamsburg Celebrates 75 Years of Collecting and includes four dozen objects drawn from their extensive holdings of paintings, furniture, silver, ceramics, folk art, prints, tools, costumes, and textiles made between 1612 and 1929. The objects selected for the show represent the diversity of material in the collections and are revealing for what they tell us about colonial society in Virginia and the English influence on its early history.

Closer to home, the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum at ...