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Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library is an American estate and museum in Winterthur, Delaware. Winterthur houses one of the richest collections of Americana in the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The museum and estate were the home of Henry Francis du Pont (1880–1969), Winterthur's founder and a prominent antiques collector and horticulturist.
The Poison Book Project is a project of the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library and the University of Delaware to identify and catalog books known to contain poisonous substances, particularly arsenic in Paris green pigments. It was started in 2019 when Winterthur staff members Melissa Tedone and Rosie Grayburn identified a book containing ...
Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, Winterthur, Delaware, US Rebecca Pritchard Mills (Mrs. William Mills) and Her Daughter Eliza Shrewsbury is an oil-on-canvas portrait created by American painter James Earl .
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Ames, Kenneth L., "Trade catalogues and the study of history," in Accumulation & display: mass marketing household goods in America, 1880-1920. Winterthur, Del.: Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1986. pp. 7–14; Baker, T. Lindsay. North American Windmill Manufacturers' Trade Literature (Norman, Ok: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998)
The Kunst Museum Winterthur (The Winterthur Museum of Art) is an art museum in Winterthur, Switzerland run by the local Kunstverein.From its beginnings, the activities of the Kunstverein Winterthur were focused on contemporary art – first Impressionism, then Post-Impressionism and especially Les Nabis, through post-World War II and recently created works by Richard Hamilton, Mario Merz and ...
Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, Winterthur, Delaware, US Washington at Verplanck's Point is a full-length portrait in oil painted in 1790 by the American artist John Trumbull of General George Washington at Verplanck's Point on the North River in New York during the American Revolutionary War .
Founding curator of the Winterthur Museum Joseph Downs (July 24, 1895 – September 8, 1954) was an American museum curator and scholar of American decorative arts . After 17 years at the Metropolitan Museum of Art , Downs became founding curator of the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library from 1949 to 1954.