During the interwar years, “folk art fever” swept the Northeastern United States.1 Early transmitters included Robert Laurent, Charles Sheeler and other artists who contracted the fever in rural outposts like Ogunquit, Maine or the Pennsylvania German enclave of Bucks County and brought it back to New York City, where the Whitney Studio Club put objects from their collections on display in 1924.
Ranging from ancient China and medieval India to early 19th century Italy and contemporary London, this is a selection of models drawn from the collections of the V&A and RIBA.