American folk art in California.(Current and coming)(exhibition)

In 1961 Thomas H. Oxford and Victor Gail of Long Beach, California, set out to form a collection of Americana that would span the period from the seventeenth through the early nineteenth century. It was to include the achievements of American artists and craftsmen, both trained and untutored. Most of the resulting collection consists of objects made in the East, particularly in New England and the Mid-Atlantic states, but mostly found in California or adjacent states. Several years ago the collectors generously agreed to make objects from their collection available for a series of loan exhibitions to be held at the Long Beach Museum of Art. The fourth in this series of exhibitions is now on view until January 16, 2005. Entitled For the People: American Folk Art from the Collection of Thomas H. Oxford and Victor Gail, it comprises some fifty objects including paintings, furniture, needlework, works on paper, pottery, chalkware, and wood carvings dating from the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth century.

The exhibition is installed ...