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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.
In 1957, the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library acquired tools, equipment, furnishings, and fittings from the Dominy shops. Reconstructions of the shops have been on display at Winterthur since 1960. [3] Winterthur curator Charles F. Hummel wrote an influential book on the Dominy craftsmen in 1968. [10]
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 ...
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Their work is held in the collections of the Missouri History Museum, Illinois State Museum, [5] Metropolitan Museum of Art, [6] and Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library. [7] In 2018, a "snake jug" sold at auction for $141,000. [8] In 2021, Winterthur Museum acquired the “Liberty Monument” piece. [9] [10] [11] It depicts the Colfax ...
Rebecca Pritchard Mills (Mrs. William Mills) and Her Daughter Eliza Shrewsbury is an oil-on-canvas portrait created by American painter James Earl.It was painted in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1794 (possibly as late as 1796).
James sold the Winterthur Estate to Henry du Pont, who intended it as a domicile for his eldest son, Henry Algernon. [2] Passed down through the family, the estate became the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library in 1952 and "houses one of the nation's outstanding collections of furniture and the decorative arts ."
Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library encompasses a museum of American furniture and decorative arts, a research library, and 900-acre gardens and grounds located near Wilmington, Delaware and founded by Henry Francis du Pont in 1951.