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Electra Havemeyer Webb and Edith Gregor Halpert: a collaboration in folk art collecting.
Research for the Shelburne Museum's newly reinterpreted folk art galleries, which opened in June 2002, revealed a significant collaboration between Electra Havemeyer Webb, the collector and founder of the museum, and the folk and contemporary art dealer Edith Gregor Halpert (Fig. 2). (1) Between 1950 and 1960, these two unusual, creative, and energetic women worked together, not only on additions to the collection but also on exhibition ideas, a sophisticated cataloging system, labels, and publicity. Halpert used her tremendous professional experience and skills to help Webb in ways hitherto not fully recognized.
A Russian Jewish immigrant, Halpert founded her ...
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