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Arizona
University of Art Museum, Arizona State
Univ Art Collection, Nelson Fine Arts Center and Matthews Center
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287
Durer's work on the study of geometry in textiles.
CaliforniaLacis Museum of Lace and Textiles (LMLT). The Museum is just beginning.
The first exhibit will open April 1, 2005. You can visit the new website at:Palace of the Legion of Honor
Lincoln Park, San Francisco, CA 94121
many works of famous French artists, including prints and drawings.The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco M.H. deYoung Museum same mailing address as above, but not in the same location holds the Hearst Collection of Flemish Gothic Tapestries. J.Paul Getty Museum 17985 Pacific Coast Hwy,Malibu, CA 90265 Many French works. Lace Museum 552 South Murphy Ave,Sunnyvale, CA 94086 A very comprehensive collection of handmade laces. Classes available. Los Angeles County Museum of Art 5905 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036 textiles, costumes, sculptures. lace (click on search then type "lace") Norton Simon Museum 411 W. Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91105 Renaissance art from old masters.
Colorado
The Denver Art Museum
100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy, Denver, CO 80204
Neusteter Institue of Fashion, costume and textiles.
Connecticut
The New Britain Museum of American Art
56 Lexington St, New Britain, CT 06052
colonial art through modern day.
Yale Center for British Art
1080 Chapel St, Box 2120, New Haven, CT 06520
Paul Mellon collection.
Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel St, New Haven, CT 06520
Italian Renaissance paintings, early decorative arts.
Delaware
Delaware Art Museum
2301 Kentmere Pkwy, Wilmington, DE 19806
collection of English pre-Raphaelites, Research library on American arts.
Henry Francis Du Pont Winterthur Museum
Route 52, Winterthur, DE 19735
very important collection of colonial American arts including fabrics, porcelain. Sell kits to replicate period pieces in embroidery and other forms of artwork.
District of Columbia(DC)
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery,Smithsonian Institution
1050 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20560
ancient scrolls and other notables.
Hillwood Mansion
hold an impressive collection of Belgian laces from the Royal Family.
National Gallery of Art
Constitution Ave and 4th St NW, Washington, DC 20565
Andrew Mellon endowment, many works of classic masters
Smithsonian Institution
8th and G St NW, Washington, DC 20560
colonial times to modern day decorative arts
National Gallery of Women in the Arts
Washington, DC
Many paintings, and other works all created by women.
Florida
The Flagler Museum in Palm Beach, Florida has a room of quite lovely lace and
a lace pillow on display. I assume the lace room is still there but they did change directors so one might check before going out of their way to go there.
Hawaii
Honolulu Academy of Arts
900 S Beretania St, Honolulu, HI 96814
mainly asian and polynesian arts from around the world textiles including contemporary laces.
Illinois
The Art Institute of Chicago
Michigan Ave at Adams St,Chicago, IL 60603
According to my friend Lorilei Halley, this has the most amazing collection antique books on lace with photographs to document and other sources of information.
The Field Museum of Natural History
Roosevelt Rd/Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60605
collection of costumes and textiles.
Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago
1155 E 58th St, Chicago, IL 60637
archeology and art collection from early times.
Indiana
Indiana University Art Museum
Fine Arts Bldg, Bloomington, IN 47405
western decorative arts.Indianapolis Museum of Art
1200 W 38th St,Indianapolis, IN 46208
old masters, European and American decorative arts.
Kansas
Wichita Art Museum
619 Stackman Dr,Wichita, KS 67203
American paintings, prints, drawings.
Kentucky
J.B. Speed Art Museum
French and Flemish tapestries,middle ages handworks.
Embroiderer's Guild of America(EGA)
Margaret Parshall Gallery of Handworks
335 W. Broadway, Suite 100,Louisville, KY needlearts exhibits by members of the EGA, including laces.
The Baltimore Museum of Art
Art Museum Dr,Baltimore, MD 21218
old masters, different rooms set up to show time periods.
Walters Art Gallery
600 N Charles St,Baltimore, MD 21201
a must-see site with handworks from the medieval times.
Massachusetts
Fogg Art Museum
32 Quincy St,Harvard University,Cambridge, MA 02138
look for "The Huguenot" painting and other beautiful artwork.
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
465 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115
you'll find everything here!
Old Sturbridge Village
Sturbridge, MA 01566
living history museum with re-enactors, focusing on textiles.
Whipple House
1 South Village Green (Route 1A); IPSWICH, MA
(978) 356-2811; open Wed. - Sun., May through October 15.
devoted to THE first European lacemakers of the new world bobbins made of bamboo and lace samples.Wellesley Historical Society,
229 Washington Street, Wellesley,MA; (781) 235-6690.
Limited days and hours:
Mon & Wed, 2-4:30; Thurs. 4:30- 7:30; Sat. 1:30 - 3:30.
They presently have an extensive lace exhibit, on view through May 2001.*Worked with Infinite Patience,
The Lace Collection of Esther Oldham* will be on view through May 2001. It
includes examples of Italian lace from the 1500s, an array of laces from
throughout Europe, samples of South American and Caribbean work, and
samplings of the American lace industry such as Ipswich lace. Also on
display are lace-making tools, and part of the Oldham Lace reference
library available for perusal by visitors.
Michigan The Detroit Institute of Arts
5200 Woodward Ave,Detroit, MI 48202
colonial American arts.
Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village
20900 Oakwood Blvd, Dearborn, MI 48121
collection of arts, crafts with demonstrations.Hermitage Gallery
235 Main, Rochester, Michigan 48307 -ph 248 656-8559
.open .7 days a week....11 to 6 mon, tu,e wed .....11 to 8 thur andfri...sat 11 to 6 ...sunday 11 to 4
has the origional painting of "the Lacemaker" by Charles Amable Lenoir
Minnesota
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
2400 Third Ave S,South Minneapolis, MN 55404
paintings from old masters, asian arts, and textiles.University of Minnesota Goldstein Gallery
St. Paul Ag Campus
gallery at umn
Missouri
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak St,Kansas City, MO 64111The St Louis Art Museum
St Louis, Missouri
anyone have the address for this one?
early works from all around the world
Montana
Moss Mansion
Billings, Montana
One of the first mansions in the US with copper electrical wiring! Beautiful setting and some lace seen here. Please contact Winifred Keefer for more details.
New Jersey
The Art Museum
Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ 08544
French paintings, and many old master classics.
New York
Albany Institute of History and Art
125 Washington Ave, Albany, NY 12210
one of the first museums in the US, founded in 1791 it holds famous portraits,artwork from the Hudson River School Artists, period rooms including furniture.
Amherst Museum
Amhest,NY (near Buffalo) needle lace and bobbin lace on display and exhibits, a terrific lace guild too!
The Cloisters
Fort Tryon Park, NY 10040
medieval artwork from early centuries of Byzantine and Romanesque art through French and Spanish later works.
Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design, Smithsonian Institution
2 E. 91st St, New York, NY 10128
Very important museum in regards to lace. Costume curator, Milton Sonday, is the research partner of Santina Levey, the famous author of the well respected book "Lace: A History" The lace collection is beautiful and they do hold lectures on the topic of lace design. The best results are had if you make an appointment. When you arrive, you are invited to look at slides of the lace contained on about 25 slide carrousels sorted according to type. When you have an idea of what you might like to see, the collections manager will go and get some of the pieces. It is necessary to be flexible as the collections manager is unable to devote her full attention to you.
Cornell University Mann Library,
special collection Over 300 antique through present day lacemaking books are housed here in several different vaults. You must make an appointment to see some of the books. NOTE: Wear sneakers and be prepared,because you'll have to do a lot of running up and down a tiny stairwell between 5 floors. I was exhausted, but had to keep looking.
Ithaca, NY 14850
Cooperstown Museum of American Art and Farmer's Museum
James Fenimore Cooper Home
Cooperstown, NY
A lacemaker's globe(light),several beautiful paintings, weavings, many textiles, including coverlets I belong to the New York State Historical Association, based here. Lots of Huguenot artworks.
Daniel Parrish Witter Museum of Agriculture
Syracuse, NY
This museum showcases antique bobbin lace and a complete working exhibit of flax to linen. Interesting to note that this museum became a major research center for textiles arts before Winterthur or Sturbridge.
The Frick Collection
1 E 70th St, New York, NY 10021
furniture, several important early paintings from Europe.
Genesee Country Museum
(near Rochester,NY)
a well established lace guild based here
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Ave/82nd St, New York, NY 10028
The Museum's address is Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10028-0198,
phone (212) 650-2310, fax (212) 650-2676, e-mail RattiTextile.Center@metmuseum.orgProbably the world's largest museum. Many, many pieces of lace, please ask for a special appointment though.
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the Ratti Textile Center, there are roughly 6000 pieces of lace. The procedure there is to visit the center by appointment in the morning 10-12:30. You are taught how to use the data base by which you can call up lace by various factors, ie. country of origin. You make a list of accession numbers of laces that you would like to see. You are allowed only 10 laces, but you are advised to make the list to include perhaps twice or three times that many, because some will be unavailable. It is actually rather difficult to refine your list to 20 laces in 2 1/2 hours, so I would come at 10. The center closes for lunch at 12:30.
Then you must return on another day, by appointment, in the afternoon, to see the laces. This is necessary because the center must obtain permission from the curator who controls the textile, before showing it. If the textile is very fragile, or difficult to unpack, permission may not be granted. If you have only one day, you might find it enjoyable, or you might not, to just look at the data
base, because it has photos of most of the laces and you can see many pictures of, lets say, Italian cutwork, and learn a lot from the data base, itself.If you want to skip the data base experience, and come only for a viewing, you need to have the accession numbers of the items you wish to see and to provide these in advance. Often these are available in books like the Santina Levey book.
There are two pieces of lace on display near the Arms and Armor section, one a nice piece of Italian cutwork that in pictured in Santina Levey. There are two pieces in an area of 19th Cent. European Decorative Arts, one a piece of what I call Colbertine. I believe there may be some in the American Wing. Presently there is a Renaissance Tapestry Exhibit going on that has gotten
very good reviews.
Museum of Folk Art
2 Lincoln Square, New York, NY 10023
colonial quilts, weavings, needlework, among other lace-related items.Hispanic Society of America
Business Office: 613 West 115th street at Broadway
(212) 926 2234
The museum is next door almost, on Andolen Tce.
Open 10:00 - 16:30 Tuesdays to Saturdays
Onondage Community College
Exhibit currently running:collection of antique and custom-made bobbin laces
and bobbins from around the world.
Syracuse, NY
Onondaga Historical Association Museum
Syracuse, NY
Erie Canal Museum
Syracuse, NY
Ohio
Cleveland Museum of Art
11150 East Blvd,Cleveland, OH 44106
medieval art, old masters, colonial American art, princess loom laces and more.Croatian Heritage Museum
34900 Lakeshore Blvd.
Eastlake, Ohio 44095 - Tel.440-946-2044
Pennsylvania
The Carnegie Museum of Art
4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
collection of art from early periods through colonial times.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
26th St/Benjamin Franklin Pkwy,Philadelphia, PA 19101
Berberini tapestries designed by Rubens, decorative arts.
Texas
The Museum of Fine Arts
1001 Bissonet,Box 6826,Houston, TX 77265
old masters, american decorative arts, paintings remember Texas used to be owned by France.
Virginia
Colonial Williamsburg
Goodwin Bldg,PO Box 1776,Williamsburg, VA 23185
dating from 1693 to 1837 a living history museum with re-enactors.
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
2800 Grove Ave, Richmond, VA 23221
British and French paintings, American paintings, works of the Huguenot artist, Peter Carl Faberge indicating traditional French lace patterns.Sweet Briar College
Sweet Briar, Virginia 24595 tel. 434.381.6100
* a section of the museum devoted almost entirely to lace from the collection of Indiana Fletcher Williams
Washington
Seattle Art Museum
3rd Ave,Seattle, WA
many textile-related artworks and lace
Seattle Museum of Asian Art
Bill Gates' Dad is married to the Curator!
Incredible silk and other textiles with handwork from Asian
Vermont Bennington Museum W. Main Street, Bennington, VT 05201 (802) 447-1571
Hours are 9-5pm 11/1-5/31 and 9-6pm 6/1-10/31
Known for their collection of Grandma Moses paintings,
the museum also holds a collection of handmade laces!
Wisconsin
Elvehjem Museum of Art
Univ of Wisconsin, 800 University Ave, Madison, WI 53706
American paintings and decorative arts.
University of Wisonsin at Madison Museum
Madison, WI
Hellen C. Allen Collection
Comments by Heather:Please check with your local university, college, and library. Many of these institutions hold vast collections without correct knowledge of their laces nor the necessary time available to catalogue such items. Consider volunteering if you can help them out.
Don't Give Up If you inquire to the museum and they tell you there is no lace here, please don't be discouraged. I have seen laces completely mislabeled in displays. Overlooking the early American paintings is also a mistake. Most of the early paintings accurately highlight laces in detail. In most cases, if you ask the curator of collections, they will arrange an appointment for you to view their archives of laces if they are not out on display.
