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Mar. 8—The price was never the point. When Ivan Barnett was a young artist working in rural Pennsylvania and had a chance to sell some art to Alexander Girard, he knew that it could potentially ...
Alexander Girard's folk art collection at Museum of International Folk Art Museum Alexander Girard donated 100,000 objects from his and his wife Susan’s folk art collection to the Museum of ...
Alexander Girard's miniature folk art collection hopes to evoke common humanity. In Santa Fe, New Mexico, iconic 20th-century designer Alexander Girard’s passion for folk art is on view at the ...
Recommended for ages 4 and up, this set of alphabet blocks featuring the groovy folkloric drawings of Alexander Girard is a must for any self-respecting midcentury modernist fan -- with or without ...
How/when did you discover Alexander Girard's work? Todd Oldham: My first experience of seeing Mr. Girard's work was at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the early 1980s.
Alexander Girard has quite the history with Herman Miller: he served as the founding director of the company’s textile division in 1952, and spent over two decades with the company — creating ...
Designer Alexander Girard has been called “the perfecter of the conversation pit form.” One need look no further than the multicolored and once-radical conversation pit in the Miller House ...
Alexander Girard shows you the way to the facilities at Herman Miller’s new L.A. showroom Oct. 9, 2009 12:02 PM PT ...