Gewerbe Museum Exhibition at NCFA

Summary

The Ilka and Jacoby Lace Collection from the Gewerbe Museum, St. Gall, Switzerland, exhibited in the National Collection of Fine Arts, now the National Museum of American Art, gallery at the Natural History Building, February 11- March 4,1962. The exhibit, arranged in cooperation with the Ambassador of Switzerland, Dr. August R. Lindt, and the Swiss Cotton and Embroidery Industry, presents a history of lace from the 16th century to the present. It subsequently toured the United States under the aegis of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. This opening day photograph shows L to R: Thomas M. Beggs, director of NCFA; Remington Kellogg, assistant secretary of the SI and Dr. Lindt. Background shows rare antique needlepoint.

Subject

• Beggs, Thomas M
• Kellogg, Remington 1893-1969
• National Collection of Fine Arts
• National Museum of American Art (U.S.)
• Natural History Building
• Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

F3 contains several additional photographs of attendees at the opening day reception.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 312, Box 53, Folder: 3

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1962

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Lindt, August R
• Art
• Traveling exhibitions
• Lace and lace making
• Exhibitions
• Gewerbe Museum
• Ilka and Jacoby Lace Collection
• Art--Exhibitions

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Event

ID Number

MNH805D

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Event; Medium: Photographic print

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