Cultural Redress - exhibition

Recommended Links:

http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/iad.htm

Look inside of the National Gallery of Art’s collection of work from the Index of American Design.

http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/department.asp?dep=8

Browse selected works from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute

http://www.fitnyc.edu/aspx/Content.aspx?menu=FutureGlobal:Museum

Learn more about the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology

http://www.vintageblues.com/history_main.htm

Want to know more about the history of American fashion? Read about it on this informative website – which covers trends in American fashion from 1900-1980.

http://newdeal.feri.org/index.htm
Visit the New Deal Network, a research and teaching resource devoted to the public works and arts projects of the New Deal era.

Waistcoat of the 1830’s
Mina Lowry (1894-1942)
New York, NY
Circa 1937
Watercolor on paper, 9 x11”
Original garment courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum, New York
Collection of the Queens Library on long term loan from the U.S. General Services Administration

This exhibition has been sponsored in part by the American Express Company and The Bay and Paul Foundations. Additional funding for our public programs has been made possible by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funding from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.