Making It Modern: The Folk Art Collection of Elie and Viola Nadelman

This lavishly illustrated volume is the first comprehensive study of the folk art collection purchased by the New—York Historical Society from Elie and Viola Nadelman in 1937. Exhibited by the couple from 1926 to 1937 in their pioneering Museum of Folk and Peasant Arts in Riverdale, New York, the nearly fifteen thousand works come from a collection spanning six centuries, thirteen countries, and a broad range of media. Authors Margaret K. Hofer and Roberta J.M. Olson explore a nucleus of so...