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MESDA and the study of early southern decorative arts.(Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts )
It has become almost a folk legend among decorative arts scholars: the story of Joseph Downs (1895-1954), then curator of the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, announcing at the 1949 Williamsburg Antiques Forum that "little of artistic merit was made south of Baltimore." (1) The comment prompted an offended woman from Kentucky to ask whether Downs spoke from prejudice or ignorance.
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At the time, the unfortunate gaffe threw down the gauntlet, so to speak, inspiring collectors of southern decorative arts to prove Downs wrong. The first large public effort in this regard was the seminal 1952 Loan ...
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