Curator and independent scholar Wendy Jeffers will speak about the first American collectors, dealers, and exhibitors of American folk art in a presentation titled “Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Holger Cahill, and Dorothy Miller, and Edith Halpert.”

Image: John Haley Bellamy (1836–1914), Eagle with Flag, Maine, 1890, paint on carved wood, 8 x 27 x 4″, Newark Museum, bequest of Dorothy Canning Miller Cahill, 2004.24.3. Ex coll. Holger Cahill.