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Always paying cash for what she found, and never leaving a forwarding address, Edith Gregor Halpert quietly amassed the biggest collection of folk art in the U.S. She started combing New England, Pennsylvania and upper New York State in 1929, and found over 1,000 pieces in three years-including the best there were...
Collecting customers was harder, until Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. bought a comprehensive cross-section for Williamsburg, Va. Nowadays museum directors come from Wichita and even Hawaii to buy Edith Halpert's wares, at markups ranging from 100 to 1.000%. They do their choosing behind closed doors in her Downtown Gallery (in midtown Manhattan), which specializes in such U.S. contemporaries as Charles Sheeler, Ben Shahn and Jack Levine, while turning its real profits from folk...
...Edith Halpert shies at selling her best finds to private collectors, lovingly hides them away in the old Connecticut farmhouse where she spends her summers. "These things are not cute a bit," she says proudly, "and they're not quaint either. They're art. The one quality they all share is design, you see, and that's what contemporary artists emphasize too. Our modern painters have learned a lot from these folk artists...
...EDITH LINDEMAN Amusement Editor Times-Dispatch Richmond...
Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder handed his daughter, Edith, a diploma from George Washington University, and got an honorary LL.D. for himself...