Margaret K. Hofer is curator of Decorative Arts, New-York Historical Society. Roberta J.M. Olson, Ph.D. is professor emerita of Art History at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, and curator of Drawings at the New-York Historical Society. In addition to guest-curating exhibitions for museums in the United States, among them the National Gallery of Art and the Walters Art Museum, she has participated in exhibitions in Italy at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome (1983) and elsewhere, such as the MART, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto.
Foreword by Louise Mirrer
Preface by Brian T. Allen
Acknowledgments by Margaret K. Hofer and Roberta J.M. Olson
Notes to the Reader
The History of the Nadelman Folk Art Collection by Roberta J.M. Olson and
Margaret K. Hofer
The Nadelmans in Context: The Early Collectors of Folk Art in America by
Elizabeth Stillinger
Manhattan to Munich: The Nadelmans' Sources for Folk Art by Margaret K.
Hofer
The Term "Folk Art" Once Again by Kenneth L. Ames
Classical Echoes in the Nadelmans' Folk Art Collection by Roberta J.M.
Olson
Viola Nadelman as a Collector by Cynthia Nadelman
Nadelman and Folk Art: The Question of Influence by Barbara Haskell
Catalogue Folk Art Entries
Catalogue Elie Nadelman Sculpture Entries
Appendix I: Checklist of Dealers and Auction Houses Patronized by the
Nadelmans, 1923-36
Appendix II: Museum of Folk Arts Guide, 1935
Frequently Cited Sources
Index
Photography Credits
