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The Stettheimer Dollhouse is a two-story, twelve-room dollhouse, created by Carrie Walter Stettheimer (1869-1944) over the course of two decades, from 1916 to 1935.It contains miniature art made for the dollhouse by artists like Marcel Duchamp, Alexander Archipenko, George Bellows, Gaston Lachaise, and Marguerite Zorach.
The museum displays over 6,000 exhibits (teddy bears, dolls, play shops, dollhouses and miniatures) in arranged vignettes. It also regularly organizes special exhibitions on individual themes. In particular, the teddy bear collection is unique the world over in terms of variety and quality.
In 1962 she built the Rotunda as a doll's house museum in the grounds of her home near Oxford, incorporating the spiral staircase from the St James's Theatre. [11] The museum was partially funded by Graham Greene and opened by Sir Albert Richardson, [4] who later donated a dolls' house. By the mid-1990s, the Rotunda contained over 50 miniature ...
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The Brownies - A collection of small elf-like little creatures created by Palmer Cox in the late 1800s based on a Scottish folktale. The Jane Kelsey Doll House - A fully furnished 12 room doll house. Erector Set Display - A working display of one of the most popular building toys of all time.
For 27 years, between 1958 and 1986, Hofmann drew the paper dolls feature in Betsy McCall magazine. [ 3 ] Throughout her career, Hofmann contributed illustrations to other magazines including Mademoiselle (1946–1951), Parents Magazine , Good Housekeeping (1950–1960), and Woman's Day (1950–1960).
The museum was founded in 1992 and won a number of awards for its collection, including the Jumeau Trophy for best private doll museum in the world. [2] In August 2011, the museum's owner and namesake announced that the museum would close on March 1, 2012. [1] [3] Five years later, the building became the new location of KidsQuest Children's ...
McCall was also commissioned by The Walt Disney Company to do a painting called "The Prologue and The Promise" for the Epcot attraction, Horizons in 1983. Guests could see the mural at the end of the attraction as they exited. [9] [10] McCall appeared as an imposter for a U.S. Air Force pilot on the June 24, 1963 episode of To Tell the Truth ...