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American needlework.(Painted with Thread: The Art of American Embroidery exhibition, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts)(Brief Article)
The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, has its origins in the East India Marine Society, founded in 1799. At that time, Salem enjoyed economic prosperity as one of the leading ports of New England and maintained commercial ties with ports around the world. The society was founded to house "a museum of natural and artificial curiosities from beyond the Capes [Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn]." Overtime, the institution not only underwent several changes of name, but it also became the repository for the possessions of some of the most prominent local families in addition to the ethnographic material and natural specimens collected on voyages to the far corners of the globe.
Today the collections include a fair number of pieces made in New England during the colonial and Federal periods, and more than twenty-five thousand American textiles, costumes, and related accessories, making the museum a particularly rich repository in this area. A selection of more than one hundred textiles from the permanent collection, supplemented by loans, comprises an exhibition entitled Painted with Thread: The Art of American Embroidery, which is on view at the museum from April 13 through September20. The exhibition
focuses on pieces made or used on the North Shore of Massachusetts--from a white-work sampler stitched between ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Nissman, Cara August 29, 2001 700+ words
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- Press release article from: Business Wire March 3, 2003 700+ words
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- News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. September 26, 2008 700+ words
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire March 3, 2003 700+ words
...product has been evaluated at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA. The company said museum...facilities and security at the Peabody Essex Museum, said, "Like many museums, the Peabody...relationships with both the Peabody Essex Museum and the Ducibella, Venter and Santore...
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- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Palumbo, Mary Jo February 23, 2004 700+ words
...really? A new exhibit at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem attemptsto explore misperceptions...Smile" Through May 9 at the Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square, Salem. Call 978...Beyond the Painted Smile" at the Peabody Essex Museum: March 6: Family Program, "Hinamatsuri...
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- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Palumbo, Mary Jo May 15, 1997 700+ words
...cautious eye on the future, the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem has embarked on a massive five...said Dan Monroe, director of the Peabody Essex Museum since 1993. "At the Peabody Essex Museum, we want to make the museum more coherent...
- Chinese house transports visitors; The Peabody Essex Museum rebuilds...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor June 20, 2003 700+ words
...precisely what has happened to the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass. This once quaint repository...examples of their heritage. The Peabody Essex Museum bought the house and its contents...shelter) were moved to the Peabody Essex Museum's courtyard and reassembled - everything...
