Since the wind impacts those who farm the land and sail the seas, it follows that weathervanes have a big impact on our understanding of man’s place in nature. Weathervanes alerted citizens to ...

We can generally tell if the wind is blowing north, south, east or west, but on a smaller scale, currents are a lot more complicated. And that’s something I didn’t really appreciate before Windswept.

Combining functionality, technique, and personal and political expression, weathervanes have been a part of the American folk art canon since the field emerged approximately a century ago. These ...

National Museum of American Art, 1990. Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006. Hartigan, Lynda Roscoe, "Made with Passion: The Hemphill Folk Art Collection in the National Museum of American Art," ...

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