Florence Dibell Bartlett

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Florence Dibell Bartlett (1881–1953) was the Chicagoan who founded the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, the world's first international folk art museum. The museum was founded to express her belief that folk art is a bond between the people of the world.

The museum opened to the public in 1953 and has gained national and international recognition as the home to the world’s largest collection of folk art. Its collection of more than 135,000 artifacts is divided into four exhibition wings: Bartlett, Girard, Hispanic Heritage, and Neutrogena.

The Bartlett Wing, named in honor of the museum's founder, has two galleries with rotating exhibits from the museum's collection and gathered in field studies of specific cultures or art forms. Focuses in the Bartlett wing have ranged from Turkish, Tibetan and Swedish traditions, to New Deal-era New Mexican art, recycled objects Mayólica.

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• Museum of International Folk Art
• Folk Art Journey: Florence D. Bartlett & the MoIFA, edited by Laurel Seth and Ree Mobley