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FOLK ART EXHIBIT OFFERS SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE
The Saco Museum is one of eleven museums across Maine exhibiting folk art collections simultaneously as part of the Maine Folk Art Trail 2008, a coordinated statewide exhibition. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for people to see some of America’s best folk art and explore various museums and their communities. The Saco Museum is exhibiting items from its collections as well as objects on loan from the Brick Store Museum in Kennebunk and the Portland Fire Museum. The Maine Folk Art exhibit will be on display at the Saco Museum through Sunday, September 28, 2008.
Folk art is a genre that combines art, craft and functionality. If you were to ask a room full of collectors, curators, museum directors and antique dealers to define “folk art,” a lively discussion would be sure to follow. Folk art is represented in many forms including portraiture, landscapes, still life, decorated furniture, schoolgirl art, trade signs, pottery, marine arts, weathervanes and other sculpture.
The Maine Folk Art exhibition at the Saco Museum includes fantastic hand carved/painted signs, toys, portraiture, weathervanes and furniture. The magnificent wood carvings of Adelard Cote (1889 – 1974), a French-Canadian folk artist who lived in Biddeford, are an important part of the Saco Museum collection that will be featured in the exhibition.
The Maine Folk Art Trail collaborative exhibition was organized by Dr. Charles Burden, a Maine native and co-founder of the Bath Maritime Museum (now the Maine Maritime Museum), and Ray Egan, a collector and former board member of the American Museum of Folk Art in New York City. The other museums participating in the folk art trail are:
Bates College Museum of Art
Colby College Museum of Art
Farnsworth Art Museum
Maine Historical Society
Maine Maritime Museum
Maine State Museum
Museums of Old York
Penobscot Marine Museum
Rufus Porter Museum
Sabbathday Lake Shaker Museum
The exhibition dates vary at each venue so please visit the web site www.mainefolkarttrail.org for more details. The Maine Folk Art Trail sponsors are: Davis Family Foundation, Carl M. Lindberg Family Foundation, American Folk Art Society, Northeast Auctions, Bill and Sally Gemmill, Maine Antique Digest, Maine Antique Dealers Association and an anonymous donor.
The exhibition specifically at the Saco Museum is made possible, in part, thanks to the sponsorship of Island Point.
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