I know Southern
resources...not so much NY. However, Cooperstown, Winterthur, the Met and
the Cooper Hewitt have some of the best decorative arts libraries and resources
in the country...it'd be worth checking with them.
Further
South:
There's a chair museum in
Waterford, Virginia, a Quaker village that had many craftsmen producing the
chairs on display. I dont know further facts about their chairmakers, but it
might be worth contacting the Waterford Foundation for more
information.
The Museum of Early
Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem has much information on southern
craftspeople.
And the Abby Aldrich
Rockefeller Museum of Folk Art in Williamsburg, VA has a good library and good
resources to check. They have the depiction of the first banjo in this country,
shown in a painting of African American group dancing.
Each of these
organizations is expanding its knowledge base as far as African American
history (thus trades people) goes.
Camille Agricola
Bowman
Easement
Technical Advisor
Tidewater Region Preservation Office
Department of Historic
Resources
14415
Old Courthouse Way
Newport News, Virginia 23608
Tel: 757-503-1549 (NOTE: New Number)
Fax: 757-886-2808
F-O-R,
A few years back I took a sackback Windsor chair making class with Mike
Dunbar at the Windsor Institute in New Hampshire. We've stayed in touch, and
recently he got onto the topic of African-American Windsor chair makers, a topic
which morphed into African-American chair makers in general. He just asked me if
I knew of any who operated out of New York and surrounds. I know of one in
south Jersey, but wondered if any of you BP seat warmers know if any made chairs
where you are?
Thanks,
VI
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