Curator's Tour of "Their Objects, Their Stories: The Nichols Women as Collectors, 1870-1960"

When:
Thursday, Aug 23, 2018 6:00p -
7:00p

Where:
Nichols House Museum
55 Mount Vernon Street
Boston, MA 02108

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Admission:
$10

Categories:
Art

Event website:
http://nicholshousemuseum.org/programs_events.php

Laura Cunningham, Nichols House Museum Programs & Collections Coordinator and curator of this exhibition, will lead a tour of "Their Objects, Their Stories: The Nichols Women as Collectors, 1870-1960." Cunningham will guide guests through museum's five period rooms, discussing in greater detail the objects and stories which make up the exhibtion.


Their Objects, Their Stories: The Nichols Women as Collectors, 1870-1960:


“The importance of our environment and its influence on our lives can hardly be overestimated” wrote Rose Standish Nichols in 1911. With this exhibition, the Nichols House Museum explores two generations of art collecting at 55 Mount Vernon Street and the treasured objects which tell stories that are at once both familiar and unique. Their Objects, Their Stories celebrates Elizabeth and Rose Nichols for their autonomy and individualism in what they chose to collect, and how their respective collecting practices were in step with the aspirations of the Gilded Age and the women’s rights movement of the early twentieth century. From a sixteenth-century Flemish tapestry to twentieth-century bronzeworks by sculptor Paul Manship, this exhibition spans nearly 400 years of art across three continents. Letters, account books, and other ephemera are also on view to shed light on this mother-daughter relationship and their individual careers as Boston’s lesser-known tastemakers.

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