Folly Cove Designers

group of designer-artisans who worked together professionally in Lanesville, Gloucester, Massachusetts
Organization artist_collective Q5464805
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Summary

Folly Cove Designers is an artist collective[1]. It draws 82 Wikipedia views per month (artist collective category, ranking #47 of 171).[2]

Key Facts

  • Field of work: printmaking[3], decorative art[4]
  • Country: United States[5]
  • Founder: Virginia Lee Burton[6]
  • Named after: Folly Cove[7]
  • Headquarters location: Gloucester[8]
  • Archives at: Cape Ann Museum[9]
  • Inception: 1938[10], 1941[11]
  • Dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 1969[12]
  • Described at URL: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-unlikely-story-of-the-folly-cove-guild-the-best-designers-youve-never-heard-of[13]
  • Members have occupation: designer[14]
  • Has works in the collection: Art Institute of Chicago[15]

Why It Matters

Folly Cove Designers is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . neh.gov. Retrieved . neh.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Library of Congress Authorities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . neh.gov. Retrieved . neh.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . capeannmuseum.org. Retrieved . capeannmuseum.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Library of Congress Authorities. Retrieved . neh.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Library of Congress Authorities. Retrieved . neh.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . ARTIC. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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