Featured Is this some kind of sign?

I have looked for this and can not find one like it. Anyone know anything about this? It is in a very heavy frame and measures 20" x 26". The back is blank white. The pictures are taken in a dim light due to glare.

 

looks like a exhibit poster

 

The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum is in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. The museum is known for its rotating exhibits of American folk art, both from its own permanent holdings and on loan from other museums.

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller herself had an extensive collection of 18th and 19th century weathervanes, and she donated many to the museum.

Whether your picture depicts a special in-house or off-premises exhibit, or whether it simply announces part of the collection, I don't know.

If you contact the museum itself, they may be able to give you more specific details.

There's a “contact us” option on this website:
http://www.history.org/history/museums/abby_art.cfm

 

Thank you very much !

 

I did not think of that Thank you

 

That almost looks like it was a sign on one of their museum buildings..... I LOVE it!!!! So, is it a PRINT under glass????

 

Although this is the same image (with the horse and Indian straightened), it doesn't tell anything about your poster.....sorry to say....or answer your question!


Of wood and metal, this Indian on horseback weathervane cannot be attributed to a known artist. Composed of iron and pine, painted and gilded, it was probably made in Maine, possibly around the Wells area, 1850‱880.

https://www.antiquesandthearts.com/...nd-self-expression-rom-sidewalks-to-rooftops/

 

Notice the spelling of weathervane as 2 words. Depending on which dictionary you read they are both correct. Would that give a clue of its time line though? And the word "center". Everywhere I look it is called museum. Would that also give a clue to timeline?

 

You found the image though ! Thank you.

 

Having opened originally as the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection (AARFAC), the facility changed names in 1977 to the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center (AARFAC) and again in 2000 to the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum.

 

Yayyy you found it ! thank you ! I searched for that yesterday and must have just been using too detailed or wrong search phrases. So that starts the timeline after '77 at least

 

Yes, indeed... 1977 or later, up until 2000.

 

Update : Here is an email I received about this weathervane poster.

Hi Stormy,

Our Corporate Archives staff and Museum staff will do some checking to see if they can track down when this poster was produced.

Here is a link to information about the weathervane featured on the poster:


http://emuseum.history.org/view/obj...ate:flow=31719ae1-14fa-4aae-ab4f-31ae6f104494

I looked up the exhibit history for the weathervane and it has been on exhibit three times. None of the exhibits were titled "Nineteenth Century American Weathervanes," although there is a notation in the object record re an unnamed traveling exhibition organized by the AARFAM in cooperation with the American Federation of the Arts, New York, NY, April 22, 1959-December 31, 1961. The poster could have also been a generic one sold in the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum shop.

I hope to be back in touch if we can track down more specifics about the poster.

Regards,


Marianne Martin
Visual Resources Librarian

 

Very nice you got a response from them.....I hope for you, that they follow up!!!!!